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ELA, grades 5-10, Percy Jackson / Greek Mythology unit

Quiz:

Phase 1

Imagine that you must do a 4-person group project that requires researching a topic, making a poster/slideshow, and doing a presentation.

Choose one classmate (or Tumblr mutual) and two of the twelve Olympians to form a group with. Mark your choices on the attached Google Doc. You must also include a rationale for why you chose to include your two picks and why you chose to exclude each of the other options.

Phase 2

Teacher assigns each student's chosen partner* (or Tumblr mutual) to respond to their rationales by adopting the persona of each of the Olympians. Not every god needs to respond to every rationale, but every god does need to leave at least one comment.

Notes for teachers:

The provided doc includes the names for all Olympians plus Hades, but you may choose to leave it blank and have students fill them in on their own as part of the assessment.

Hades has been intentionally included among the list of Olympians as a trap. Deduct points for any of the following:

• choosing to include Hades as a group member

• failing to address Hades's status as a non-Olympian in their rationale

• failing to address/mock Hades's status as a non-Olympian when writing in the persona of at least one Olympian

Other than that, reward students for having the foresight to carefully word their rationales so as not to offend anyone, because we mortals can never be sure that the gods are not in a capricious mood on any particular day.

*This might get complicated, so you may choose to simply randomize student selections for this part of the quiz.