Perseus and the Gorgon - The Myth of Perseus Lesson Plans - KS2 Literacy

KS2 Literacy - The Myth of Perseus Lesson Plans
A 5 lesson unit that explores the Ancient Greek myth of ‘Perseus’, focusing on the episodic nature of the story.
This series of lessons uses drama techniques for pupils to get to grips with the myth’s characters and their relationships. Using timelines, pupils then record the myth’s structure looking at the ‘bad news’, ‘good news’ cycle within each episode, where Perseus is presented with further challenges and resolves them. Several ‘sentence level’ lessons help pupils to write rich descriptions and to improve the flow of their sentences and paragraphs. Pupils go on to invent their own episode for the myth.