Bits & Bobs

Last year at about this time I did a great project based around the Greek myth - The Adventures of Perseus. I'm planning on repeating it in this half term and by blogging about it, it helps me to evaluate what I did last year and hopefully make it better and more interesting! All my resources for this project from last year can be downloaded here should you wish to see them! I was lucky enough to be given the myth text by Pie Corbett and if you do use it & blog/post about it etc then please give him lots of credit!

The basic outline plan is this:

• analyse the myth in reading, what is a myth/key features etc
• make a list poem of the important characters and 'bits'..
• use this myth as the basis for a reading comprehension
• use this medium to teach how to write speech
• multi-sensory writing from the view point of certain characters - maybe 2/3 lessons
• create a new mythical creature from the names of the characters in the myth - in groups
• draw this creature & create a presentation - in groups - about it - film it
• analyse the films & improve
• write a non-chronological report about this new mythical creature
• create individual, illustrated books from the non-chrons to be read to Year 2
• make the new creature using clay
• revisit myths, what makes a myth a myth, key features etc
• write a myth using the newly created creature as hero/villain etc

The 'new bits' for this year are the clay models and the myth writing. Last year I felt as though I hadn't allowed enough time for the class to really get to grips and become immersed in the myth so this year I'm setting aside 4/5 weeks with a back up just in case!

I'm a big fan of doing a non-fictional text type in a very fictional and imaginative way. I feel that by creating presentations and actually making a new mythical creature, the children will become completely immersed in the whole project and hence write a great myth!...Will let you know how it goes!