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The Story of Arachne

A Greek myth

Story of Arachne

 

 

Log onto http://www.dltk-kids.com/world/greece/m-story-arachne-and-athena.htm

 

Create a Google Doc with a title Story of Arachne

share the Google Doc with Mr. Fracchia

 

On your Google Doc title a section Story

 

On a Google doc explain these parts of the story

 

- Who are the characters

 

- Where is the setting

 

-What are the main events of the plot

 

-What words you did not understand in the story and what those words mean

 

-How does this story explain the origin of spiders

Another take on the story

 

Ask Mr. Fracchia for a copy  of the movie 

 

Choose one of the copies of the movies   

 

 

2. Watch the movie.

 

3. On your Google Doc create a section titled The Movie answer the following questions:

 

- When you saw the movie was anything different than the way you had visualized the story?

 

- DId watching the movie help you to understand the story?

 

-How woud you have changed the movie if you were making the movie?

Things in Common

 

 The story of Arachne and the Rhino arve very different.  However, they have some things in common.  They are both types of folk tales.

 

Folk tales are fictional stories that

 

-usually have magical or imaginative parts

 

-usually explains where something in nature came from

 

-use parts of the culture they were writtin in in their stories.  (In the story, they include things that are not of the reader's culture but are part of the author's culture)

 

1. Fill out the chart that is right here

 

2. Use the chart to write a paragraph explaining how both Arachne and the Rhino are both folk tales include all three aspects of a folk tale.

                                                     For the Arachne honors project click here

 

Otherwise you are done with the project!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!! Your next project is on your folk tale page here.

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