Welcome to a heroes journey web quest
Students and fellow heroes, after reading the heroic adventures of The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 1 (Rick Riordan) you are now ready for your quest. Your mission is to go on a web quest, a journey through the internet, and search for other heroes around the world. You will visit heroes that are found in folktales and legends from many exciting places and cultures including Greece, Rome, Viking, Inuit-Eskimo and Latin America. Your journey will also include unveiling the myths of women warriors and legends. Your visit will conclude with a gallery walk of some of the poetry and art in order to further enhance our discovery of heroes around the world.
As you visit the links, print the articles and images of the ones that interest you the most. You will be collecting these as a culminating activity and creating a “Scrapbook” of your journey that you will share with the class. This scrapbook can be done by uploading these images and articles onto a power point or other presentation medium and the presentation must include a description of the heroes you meet on your web quest. You must choose at least 5 heroes to present and they must be from different countries and cultures and must include at least one woman. You may also present on a presentation board and include your own illustrations and summaries of the heroes based on your discoveries on the web quest. You may include some poetry you discovered or any music or art. You must include something about the culture or country in which these heroes occur and a brief description of their heroic journey, why they interested you, and what qualities you share or would like to share with those heroes.
Good luck on your quest. Everyone has everything they need already inside of them to be successful on their journey on this web quest and in life! Be brave and may the force be with you!
http://www.americanfolklore.net/sindex.html
This website includes stories from the U.S, Mexico, Canada, African-American, Asian-American, European-American, Latin-American, and Native American. After exploring some of these stories, go to the tab on the left that lists the categories of stories and scroll down until you come to Heroes. Explore the hero stories and chose one or two to print or write down to take with you on your next stop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_warriors_in_folklore
This website includes a plethora of women warriors from around the world. Spend plenty of time here exploring these images and stories before choosing one or two to take with you before going on your next stop.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poems/hero/
Scroll through the hero poems and choose one or two to include in your presentation. Look for a poem that includes many characteristics and qualities that you can use to help you describe and define heroes and what that means to you. Choose one that will inspire you to draw an illustration to accompany the poem when you share it in class.
http://www.viking-mythology.com/
This website includes many more heroes. Enjoy spending some time visiting these colorful characters and see which ones have made it into our English language (hint – Thursday).
ART and MUSIC:
On this part of the journey I cannot (or will not) take you there directly. You have learned much on your journey, now it is time for you to find the next destination on your own. Use a search engine of your choice and put in the following leads to art that you may want to include in your presentation:
Winged Victory of Samothrace (Greek, ca. 190 BCE)
Marble Portrait of the emperor Augustus (Roman, Ca. 14-37 CE)
Sutton Hoo Burial Helmet (Viking, early seventh century)
Oseburg Burial Ship (Viking, 800 CE)
Mural Painting at Teotihuacan (Latin American, ca. fourteenth to fifteenth century)
Stelae from La Venta (Olmec, Latin America, ca. 1000-500 BCE)
http://www.moongadget.com/origins/myth.html
This website shows the connection between the Star Wars movies and Joseph Campbell’s teachings on the hero’s journey. George Lucas, writer of the Star Wars movies, had read the work of Joseph Campbell and used many of the hero archetypes to finish his work. Notice some of the patterns and recurring themes of the hero’s journey. You may want to use some of these in your description and summaries of the heroes you have been collecting in your quest. We end the quest here with Joseph Campbell and Star Wars as we will be reading more about Joseph Campbell’s work in our next classroom journey.
The following is a list of Informational and Nonfiction Texts you will want to read to further enhance your journey:
The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History (Jane Bingham)
The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who dug for Troy (Laura Amy Schlitz and Robert Byrd)
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Viking Explorer! Voyages You’d Rather Not Make (You Wouldn’t Want to…series) (Andrew Langley, David Salariya, and David Antram)
The Inuit (Suzanne M. Williams)
Golden Tales: Myths, Legends, and Folktales from Latin America (Lulu Delacre)
Favorite Folktales from Around the World (Jane Yolen)
Women Warriors: Myths and Legends of Heroic Women (Marianna Mayer and Heller Julek)
Young Adult Fiction:
Percy Jackson and The Olympians …series (Rick Riordan)
The Kane Chronicles (the Gods and Goddesses of Egypt) (Rick Riordan)
You Wouldn’t Want to be a …series (Andrew Langley, David Salariya, and David Antram)
As you visit the links, print the articles and images of the ones that interest you the most. You will be collecting these as a culminating activity and creating a “Scrapbook” of your journey that you will share with the class. This scrapbook can be done by uploading these images and articles onto a power point or other presentation medium and the presentation must include a description of the heroes you meet on your web quest. You must choose at least 5 heroes to present and they must be from different countries and cultures and must include at least one woman. You may also present on a presentation board and include your own illustrations and summaries of the heroes based on your discoveries on the web quest. You may include some poetry you discovered or any music or art. You must include something about the culture or country in which these heroes occur and a brief description of their heroic journey, why they interested you, and what qualities you share or would like to share with those heroes.
Good luck on your quest. Everyone has everything they need already inside of them to be successful on their journey on this web quest and in life! Be brave and may the force be with you!
http://www.americanfolklore.net/sindex.html
This website includes stories from the U.S, Mexico, Canada, African-American, Asian-American, European-American, Latin-American, and Native American. After exploring some of these stories, go to the tab on the left that lists the categories of stories and scroll down until you come to Heroes. Explore the hero stories and chose one or two to print or write down to take with you on your next stop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_warriors_in_folklore
This website includes a plethora of women warriors from around the world. Spend plenty of time here exploring these images and stories before choosing one or two to take with you before going on your next stop.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poems/hero/
Scroll through the hero poems and choose one or two to include in your presentation. Look for a poem that includes many characteristics and qualities that you can use to help you describe and define heroes and what that means to you. Choose one that will inspire you to draw an illustration to accompany the poem when you share it in class.
http://www.viking-mythology.com/
This website includes many more heroes. Enjoy spending some time visiting these colorful characters and see which ones have made it into our English language (hint – Thursday).
ART and MUSIC:
On this part of the journey I cannot (or will not) take you there directly. You have learned much on your journey, now it is time for you to find the next destination on your own. Use a search engine of your choice and put in the following leads to art that you may want to include in your presentation:
Winged Victory of Samothrace (Greek, ca. 190 BCE)
Marble Portrait of the emperor Augustus (Roman, Ca. 14-37 CE)
Sutton Hoo Burial Helmet (Viking, early seventh century)
Oseburg Burial Ship (Viking, 800 CE)
Mural Painting at Teotihuacan (Latin American, ca. fourteenth to fifteenth century)
Stelae from La Venta (Olmec, Latin America, ca. 1000-500 BCE)
http://www.moongadget.com/origins/myth.html
This website shows the connection between the Star Wars movies and Joseph Campbell’s teachings on the hero’s journey. George Lucas, writer of the Star Wars movies, had read the work of Joseph Campbell and used many of the hero archetypes to finish his work. Notice some of the patterns and recurring themes of the hero’s journey. You may want to use some of these in your description and summaries of the heroes you have been collecting in your quest. We end the quest here with Joseph Campbell and Star Wars as we will be reading more about Joseph Campbell’s work in our next classroom journey.
The following is a list of Informational and Nonfiction Texts you will want to read to further enhance your journey:
The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History (Jane Bingham)
The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who dug for Troy (Laura Amy Schlitz and Robert Byrd)
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Viking Explorer! Voyages You’d Rather Not Make (You Wouldn’t Want to…series) (Andrew Langley, David Salariya, and David Antram)
The Inuit (Suzanne M. Williams)
Golden Tales: Myths, Legends, and Folktales from Latin America (Lulu Delacre)
Favorite Folktales from Around the World (Jane Yolen)
Women Warriors: Myths and Legends of Heroic Women (Marianna Mayer and Heller Julek)
Young Adult Fiction:
Percy Jackson and The Olympians …series (Rick Riordan)
The Kane Chronicles (the Gods and Goddesses of Egypt) (Rick Riordan)
You Wouldn’t Want to be a …series (Andrew Langley, David Salariya, and David Antram)