Orion the Hunter Greek and Roman Mythology Series Grades 7-12 ELA

Engage Secondary English Language Arts students with the story of Orion the Hunter, the manly giant who did many different marvelous (and not so marvelous) things and became a constellation in the night sky. Learn Orion’s origin story, who he was, who he married, who he did wrong, what gods and goddesses did him wrong, and more. Use a suggested lesson calendar to provide three days of activities and assessments. 

Use this Digital Download for a Three-day English Language Arts Lesson

Using my tested-in-the-classroom resources, your students will want to discuss men misbehaving, allusions and tropes derived from Orion, how different conflicting versions of myths exist, perverse punishments, deception, love, and more! 

Common Core Standards: This resource aligns well with the reading literature standard: “Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux-Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).”

This Resource Includes the Following Features:

• Available as a printable PDF & Google Workspace (Slides)
• 1 Teacher’s Three-day Lesson Calendar
  • With a teacher-tested stamp of approval, follow my suggestions on how to teach the origin story of Orion. Start with background knowledge, places, and geography, engage students in group reading with custom-made reading cards, and quiz your class with trivia-style questions. Cap the lesson off with writing a literary analysis.
• Key Characters and Places Worksheet
  • Orient your learners by identifying the story’s key characters and geographical location.
• 3 Reading Cards
  • Included in this resource are four illustrated reading cards:
    • Orion — Classic Greek and Roman Mythology Dictionary
    • Orion — An Amalgam of Tropes and Conflicting Stories
    • The Orion Constellation
• A Bank of 16 Trivia-style Questions on Orion
  • Test students’ knowledge with a custom-made question set after learners engage with the reading cards (and other source material).
  • Also includes a quick check Easel assessment!
• Frayer Model Vocabulary Cards (with student sample)
  • Frayer models are a way to get kids to think about vocabulary visuallyin a four-section square —- A square for meaning, one for examples, another for non-examples, and a sketch. It is fantastic 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, Greek and Latin roots, and challenging words (as well as contextual entries that fit the story).
• Half-Sheet 3-2-1 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 ideas your students took away from reading and discussing the myth.
• Literary Analysis — Writing Activity
  • Cap off this three-day lesson with a prompt to get students to evaluate the myth of Orion using evidence from the myths.
  • Includes a 30-point rubric for scoring.
• Further Reading List
  • Consider 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 on various topics, including Orion.
• 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 secondary students in mind. It is designed for an English Language Arts Mythology unit — 

• For any myth-related unit!
• On the Clash of the Titans!
• Use this resource as a stand-alone lesson or pair it with a larger unit on Myth, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, The Theogony of Hesiod, Robert Graves’s Greek Myths, or Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, or Parallel Myths by J.F. Bierlein.

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