Poseidon's (Neptune's) World: Art & Literature Connections + Group Activity

Who is the Earth-Shaker? Poseidon (Neptune) — Engage middle and high school students with a high-interest “print + digital” three-day lesson plan with art and literature connections, quiz-bowl style questions, informational texts, group activities, and more!

This Resource Includes the Following Features:

• 1 Teacher Three-day Lesson Calendar (with Teacher’s Notes)
• Navigation Page with Links to Explore the Olympian Poseidon (Neptune)
• With a teacher-tested-stamp of approval, follow my suggestions on how to teach a three-day lesson on the god Poseidon. But this lesson pack pairs well as a supplement to any mythology unit in middle and high school.
• FREE Easel Activity on TpT
• 1 Pre-Test Assessment Tool on Easel Assessments
• 4 Google Forms Assessments on Poseidon
• 1 Link to Google Apps Version — perfect for Google Classroom and Distance Learning
• 6 Art + Literature Connections (with Visual Aids)
• Compare the text with famous works of art from Ancient Greek painters and sculptors.
• 1 Key Characters and Places Worksheet
• Orient your learners by identifying the key characters and facts about Poseidon.
• The Greater God: 3-page Poseidon Informational Text
• 30+ Question Bank on the God Poseidon
• Have students read various myths and stories about Poseidon (Note the full-text of copyrighted material is not included).
• Plenty of questions to conduct a bar-style trivia game with your students.
• 1/4 Sheet Printable Four Rounds of Questions Bookmarks
• Speaking and Listening Evaluation Form
• Includes Teacher guidelines and answer keys
• 10 Discussion Questions on Poseidon
• Facilitate an engaging discussion on Poseidon with ten thought-provoking questions. Tip: use these questions as essay prompts.
• Includes Teacher guidelines and answer keys
• 3 Frayer Model Vocabulary Cards (with student sample)
• Frayer models are a way to get kids to think about vocabulary visually in a four-section square —- A square for meaning, one for examples, another for non-examples, and a sketch. It is impressive to see the work they produce. A great way to decorate your classroom to showcase your kids’ vocabulary-in-text understanding. The cards contain terms, geography, and challenging words (as well as contextual entries that fit the story).
• 2 Exit Tickets
• Exit tickets are a way to get data about your students’ understanding of the lesson right before the class is finished. Collect these exit tickets and quickly see what ideas your students picked up about the mythology of Poseidon. I also provide two different tickets to offer academic choices for students.
• 1 Further Reading List
• Don’t disregard this further reading list if you think it is merely a bibliography. Share the list with your students or have them do projects based on the available research. Assign different sources to students and organize presentations where learning can go deeper into this popular myth.

• Answer Keys for all student-facing documents
• Teachers always ask for answer keys for my products, so I gave you plenty of guidance on what to expect from students in their written and oral responses.

I created this resource with middle and high school students in mind. It is designed for an English Language Arts Mythology unit — 

• For any myth-related unit!
• On characteristics of the gods and goddesses, hubris, The Olympians, and more!
• Use this resource as a stand-alone lesson or pair it with a larger unit on the Iliad and The Odyssey, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Robert Graves’s Greek Myths, or Edith Hamilton’s Mythology.

Know that this educational digital download supplements a unit on Greek Mythology. The lesson includes links to full-text primary resources, but the product does not contain copyrighted material copies.

For resources similar to this one, see:

• The Great Dispute Between Athena and Poseidon
• My popular Plato’sCave lesson!

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