Start today by finishing your poem draft. This draft should be turned in at the end of 3rd period to the "in-box". When you finish, or if you finish early, please go on to the second part of today's assignment:
Silently, read the account of human life and how the world was created as described on pages 64-70 of your Mythology books. You should be familiar with the following gods, goddesses, titans: Gaea (Earth) & Ouranos (Uranus), Cyclops, Kronos (Chronus or Time), Rhea (Ops), Prometheus, Atlas, Hyperborians, and Epimentheus from your reading.
Then do one of two projects:
A. Write a short creative essay (you may use the pronoun "I" and reflect) about your thoughts and experience regarding Greek Mythology. Recall how you were taught or when you first came to know about these gods/goddesses/titans, stories, etc. and reflect how some of these stories are archetypal--that they remind you of other religions, stories or movies or books that have similar themes or characters. Make sense of what you are reading. Examine and expose those ideas through your creative essay. Use your own experiences to enrich and examine these issues.
B. Much of beginnings of myth deal with conflict--of one force overcoming another. From your reading, write a short creative essay examining conflict or one force fighting another in your own experience or life.
These are expository essays. In journalism you will write more of these kinds of exposes. In an expository essay, the writer examines the meaning and significance of the subject. Feel free to use your own understanding, view-point, or experience and reflect on how you are connected to or improved or illuminated by the subject matter. Most of creative non-fiction requires reflection on the part of the author. Try to reflect about your own life and how your experiences have taught you important life lessons or significant human issues as you write.
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