Mythology Museum Exhibit #6

Today we're working on #6 of our Mythology Museum Exhibit!
 The list currently says,

• A comic strip or short summary (¾ page) of one of the major stories about your god or goddess

however, I'm changing this up a bit. We're going to work on Anchor 6 of our reading standards. We're going to work from the character's point of view. Here's your new task:


We know that myths are the oldest type of stories told. We also know that they were told by mouth and were changed a bit each time. They actually weren't written down until about 1300bc. This is why there are so many different versions of the same story.

Today your character has been granted access to 'come to life' and tell the REAL story. You will become your character as you write the story. Be creative with the genre. Here are a few ideas that I have, but this does not limit you. Feel free to make this project yours.

My ideas are:

• Write the readers a letter, telling them all about the real you, or telling them the real version of your myth.
• Write the story using first perspective (I). The story would begin with a paragraph introducing yourself and setting, then proceed with details telling the problem and events leading up to the problem, the climax, and events leading up to the solution (if there is one). Use what you know about writing narratives.
• Write an autobiography of yourself.
• Write a play with dialogue between yourself and another character. A play needs a title, list of characters, a narrator setting up the play, and dialogue telling the story.
• A memoir that tells about ONE of the stories that your character is a part of.
• I am poem (be careful with this, be sure to tell the story within the poem)
• Create a comic strip (be sure the comic tells or infers the story)

How to start:

• As always, brainstorm ideas.
• Then, sequence your events in a beginning, middle, and end
• Write a draft- use description, fig. language, pacing- longer sentences for detail and shorter sentences for action,
• Share the draft with me

When is this due?

Draft due TOMORROW :0)  

We'll peer edit them tomorrow. You may want to create something using technology but that comes AFTER the draft and edits.

You are incredibly talented readers and writers, thinkers and creators, and INNOVATING 5th graders.

Put some passion into this and make it EPIC!