RECIPROCAL READING OF "LOVE STORIES"

1. Predicting - What will happen next?
After looking at the pictures and reading the headings in bold as well as the caption in large print, how do you think the gods intervened in love ?[Possible prompts: 1. Did gods concern themselves with the lovelives of mortals 2. how might a god reward those who show true, faithful love?]

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2. Questioning - Read through the first side and list 3 thought-provoking questions that begin with how or why that you hope will be answered by the end of your reading or that you have about what you have already read.

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3. CLARIFYING - Answering key questions after reading story.

1. What were the two messages we can get from Echo and Narcissus?

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2. How might Athens have explained their victory over Persians?

 

3. What is the moral in the story of Orpheus and Eurydice?

 

4. What is one moral you might get from the story of Psyche?

 

6. List at least two virtues expected by the gods that were compromised in these stories of love. State the virtue, the story and how it was tested.

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4. SUMMARIZING

1. Summarize any one of these love stories in 3 complete sentences or less.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Summarize what you have learned about great gods and mortals from these love stories.