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Lesson 36: Stories That Change—Final Myth Seminar
50 min
California CCSS: Focus Standards
California CCSS: Supporting Standards
ELD Standards
Student Lesson
Lesson 36: Stories That Change—Final Myth Seminar
Student Learning Objectives
1
Content
Students will compare how The Lightning Thief, ancient myths, and a film adaptation portray heroes exploring the unknown.
2
Language
Students will use comparative transitions, discourse markers, and precise academic vocabulary to build extended oral explanations in a seminar.
3
Foundations
Students will practice discourse synthesis by using transition frames to connect ideas across texts and adaptations.
Essential Question
How do these stories from different cultures use the hero to explore the unknown?
Connections to
Knowledge-Building:
Students synthesize their reading of The Lightning Thief, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, and myth research from different cultures.
Enduring Understanding:
Myths and retellings change across time, but they continue to help people explore danger, identity, courage, and the unknown.
Future Lessons:
Students will reuse seminar claims and evidence in the final unit assessment.
Unit Performance Task:
Students discuss and explain how myths are adapted, transformed, and kept alive for modern audiences.
Lesson Pacing
| Lesson Flow | Purpose of Learning Experience |
|---|---|
Launch5 Minutes | Prepare students to synthesize across the unit by recalling key comparisons and connecting Lesson 35’s homecoming work to the unit seminar question. |
Literacy Lab10 Minutes | Introduce and model the Socratic Seminar protocol, including synthesis stems and discussion moves to build, contrast, and clarify ideas. |
Learning in Action30 Minutes | Part A: Myths, Heroes, and the Unknown (SL.6.1)Stude nts will participate in the first half of the seminar, comparing how heroes in multiple texts face the unknown and how Riordan modernizes myth. PartB: Page, Screen, and Storyboard (RL.6.7, SL.6.2) Students will evaluate teacher-selected film clips and discuss how visual adaptations change characterization, tone, and message. |
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Addressed in Lesson
- adaptation
- a new version of a story made for a different audience or form
- critique
- an explanation that evaluates how well a choice works
Vocabulary for Additional Support
- evolution
- gradual change over time
- generation
- a group of people growing up around the same time
Material List
- The Lightning Thief
- Myth Research Notes (from Lesson 22)
- Teacher-chosen clips from Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
- Unit 4 Lesson 36 Student Edition
Routines
- Think-Pair-Share
- Socratic Seminar/Fishbowl
- Quick Write
