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Material:
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Encyclopedia Mythica
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| Submitted by: |
Evelyn J. Brouwer on Apr 06, 2006 |
| Date Last Modified: |
Apr 06, 2006 |
| Title: |
Create Your Own Myth |
| Description: |
This activity will help you become familiar with mythological and legendary characters from a variety of countries. Creatively you need to use this resource and any other resource along with your prior knowledge to create a new story using cultural characters. |
| Type of Task: |
Individual,
Student-centered,
Supplemental activity,
Unsupervised
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| Time Required |
1-2 hours |
| Course: |
Human Relations |
| Audience: |
College General Ed
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| Categories: |
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| Learning Objectives: |
One learning objectives is to synthesis a new story using ancient characters from a culture of your choice.
Another objective is to become familiar with multicultural beliefs and to recognize similarities and differences in order to be more culturally sensitve. |
| Text of Learning Exercise: |
Enter the website and use the "Jump to Area" to choose a country. Find 3-4
characters to include in a 2-3 page original story. Include a brief bio of the
characters and a description of the country the characters represent.
Also take time to browse through various countries and mark some similarieties
and differences amongst the cultures. A Venn diagram would be appropriate to
illustrate this.
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