Pelasgian Creation Myth Greek Mythology Series for Grades 8-10 ELA

Why is there something rather than nothing? In this 3-day mythology mini-unit, students explore the Pelasgian creation myth and early Greek ideas about Chaos, Gaia, and the origins of the cosmos. The resource includes illustrated reading cards, text-dependent questions, vocabulary support, and quick checks for understanding—ready for print or digital instruction (PDF + Google Workspace).

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

Using my tested-in-the-classroom resources, your kids will want to discuss the primordial questions of existence, where we come from and where we are going, matriarchal versus patriarchal societies, and more! So I have loaded this resource with FOUR reading cards and a set of TWENTY-SEVEN questions that will get your students talking, writing, and wondering!

Common Core Standards: This resource aligns well with the reading literature standard: “Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new.”

What’s included

• 3-day teacher lesson calendar + pacing guidance
• 4 illustrated reading cards (definition + myth text + notes + bonus card)
• 27 trivia-style comprehension questions + answer key
• 3-box note-taking template + Frayer-model vocabulary template
• 3-2-1 exit ticket + further reading list

• Standards alignment chart

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 topics including — cosmology, creation myths (cosmogonic myths), myths of origins, and Ancient Greek history and society.
• 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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