Narcissus & Echo Mythology Series Middle and High School Greek & Roman Study ELA

Who are Narcissus and Echo? Two young people whose lives become tragically intertwined — Narcissus is a beautiful boy who fell in love with his own image, and Echo is the nymph whose unrequited love for Narcissus caused her to be a voice in the wind. Look at the Further Reading Guide to supplement this lesson with myth-related books, websites, and articles. I envision this resource being used with any mythology-related unit you share with middle and high school students!

This Resource Includes the Following Features:

• Available as a PDF for Printing or Digital (w/ Google Apps)
• 1 Teacher Three-day Lesson Calendar (with Teacher’s Notes)
• 1 Key Characters and Places Anchor Chart
  • Orient your learners by identifying the key characters and the geographical location that situates the youth Echo and Narcissus on the Greek peninsula. Includes a map activity!
• Reading Cards:
  • Narcissus and Echo: Story Version #1
  • Narcissus and Echo: Story Version #2
  • Includes a Student-Friendly Reading Protocol.
• 9-Count Question Bank
  • Check for understanding with a quick and adaptable question bank.
  • Includes a Custom Note-taking template to ensure student accountability!
• Frayer Model Vocabulary Cards
  • Frayer models are a way to get kids to think about vocabulary visually in a four-section square —- A square for meaning, one for examples, another for non-examples, and a sketch. It is amazing to see the work they produce. A great way to decorate your classroom to showcase your kids’ vocabulary-in-text understanding. The cards contain terms, geography, challenging words (as well as contextual entries that fit the story).
• 1 Half-Sheet Exit Ticket
  • Exit tickets are a way to get data about your students’ understanding of the lesson right before the class is finished. Collect these exit tickets and quickly see what your students have learned.
• Writing Activity
  • The writing activity serves as a summative assessment as it asks students to pen a five-paragraph essay where they meticulously delve into the characters of Echo and Narcissus.
• 1 Further Reading List
  • Don’t disregard this further reading list if you think it is merely a bibliography. Share the list with your students or have them do projects based on the available research. Assign different sources to students and organize presentations where learning can go deeper into the story.
• Standards Alignment Chart
• Answer Keys for all student-facing documents
  • Teachers always ask for answer keys for my products, so I gave you plenty of guidance on what to expect from students in their written and oral responses.

I created this resource with high school students in mind. It is designed for an English Language Arts Mythology unit —

• Encourage students to discuss beauty, vanity, unrequited love, anthropomorphic personification, and more.
• Use this resource as a stand-alone lesson or pair it with a larger unit on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Robert Graves’s Greek Myths, or Edith Hamilton’s Mythology.

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