Model English
1. Read the essential questions for our Mythology Unit. Then, go to the following places to research websites, video streams, and reading material to use for our unit. For each suggestion you post, provide a summary of the material and a justification for using the source that refers to some of the essential questions you think it will address. Also, suggest ways this might be used in class.
a. Google!
b. Medianetkids -for streaming videos, etc. (link from BCS homepage) — School: bcs Password: bulldogs
c. Ebscohost (link from library homepage) — belfastcs in both boxes to log in
Essential Questions:
1. Is there a difference between myths, lies and religion?
2. What is it about religions that people would die/kill for them?
3. What is the difference between a religion and a mythology?
4. Are there any “new” mythologies being developed in the modern world?
5. How can one believe his or her cultural myth ?
6. Are modern religions merely variances on an older mythology?
7. How has mythology influenced modern literature?
8. Does mythology go deeper than just worshiping different Gods in a polytheistic manner?
9. Is there a meaning to the creation of mythology?
10. Does mythology provide reasons or purpose for human existence?
11. Were the beliefs of mythology kept alive because nothing else was applicable?
12. Is christianity considered a mythology, even as a young religion? Or are the more older religions such as Islam and Buddism considered mythology?
13. How is a mythology created?
14. How has mythology effected our modern world?
15. What are the similarities of mythologies?
16. How are mythologies passed on from generation to generation?
17. Has mythology declined as a result of advances in science?
18. Why do cultures create belief systems that then become mythologies?
19. What are the characteristics of a mythology? Could modern belief systems be considered mythologies?
2. Go to atheism.about.com/library/FAQS/religion/blgrk_religion-gods.htm
Read the page (print it if you need to finish at home). In your journal, write half a page of summary and half a page response, connecting this new material to the guiding questions for the unit.
