Latin 3 > Mythology

Communication

Reading for Understanding

• Read various passages about the underworld, foundation myths, creation stories, transformations, and love stories by authors such as Ovid, Virgil, Apuleius, etc.

Using Oral and Written Language for Understanding

• Find textual evidence and quote the text to answer questions in Latin pertaining to mythology.
• Read and/or recite texts about mythology, either as a prepared recitation or spontaneously.
• Respond in Latin to questions pertaining to mythological passages.

Cultures

Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products

• Demonstrate understanding about why the Greco-Roman world believed in mythological figures and their underlying importance to its cultural identity.
• Discuss how a targeted author employs mythological allusions in his writing.

Connections, Comparisons and Communities

Making Connections Through Language

• Identify mythological references in literature and the arts throughout the ages, such as Pyramus and Thisbe, the fall of Icarus, etc.
• Recognize examples of mythology in science and medicine.

Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons

• Discuss and compare creation stories from various cultures.
• Identify general mythological terms, such as mercurial, cyclopean, iliadic, and odyssean.

Communication Across Communities

• Recognize the use of mythology in NASA projects, the automobile industry and other industries.

Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements

• Greek and Roman names of mythological figures, such as Orpheus and Eurydice, Cupid and Psyche, Baucis and Philemon, etc.
• English derivatives, such as narcissism, echo, etc.
• Names of mythological groups, such as nymphs, satyrs, centaurs, fates, Muses, etc.

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