Evaluating the Accuracy of the Characters: Chiron

Aim:
IWBAT evaluate whether Rick Riordan accurately represents Chiron in The Lightning Thief.

Percy and Chiron

Tasks:
1. Homework Check (5 minutes): review answers to "The Legend of Perseus"

• view accompanying text here

2. Summarize Chapters 3-4 of The Lightning Thief (5 minutes): 

• Percy travels home to New York City after school ends at Yancy Academy
• Percy's mother lives with Smelly Gabe, who is awful
• He and his mother travel to Montauk, a beach town on Long Island in New York
• Grover unexpectedly shows up at the cabin door, appearing as a half-man/half-goat, or satyr
• Grover tells them that Percy is in danger, so they get in the car and leave as fast as possible, as they are running from an unknown monster
• During the hurricane, their car is struck by lightning and lands in a ditch
• The monster, a minotaur (half-man/half-bull), charges towards them and vaporizes Percy's mom
• Angry, Percy manages to pull of one of the minotaur's horns and stab the horn into its ribcage
• Percy gathers Grover and struggles to make it to a farmhouse down the hill
• He is delirious but remembers seeing Mr. Brunner and a girl talking about him (saying, "He's the one"), just before passing out

3. Read The Lightning Thief (30 minutes): Chapter 5: "I play pinochle with a horse" -- pp. 57-74
(audiobook: Part 2, 19:27 to 48:06)


4. Quill.org (10 minutes): complete the lesson that is due today, April 28th

• Finished Early? You may:
• work on other assigned Quill lessons
• read your AR book silently
• work on TeenBiz3000
• learn more about Perseus
• explore other Greek gods and goddesses
• watch the author speak about his book, The Lightning Thief
• watch videos about the fates: here, here, and here
• learn more about the fates on the Camp Half-Blood Wiki
• explore other characters on the Camp Half-Blood Wiki

5. Evaluate the Accuracy of the Myths in The Lightning Thief (5 minutes)

• review aim: IWBAT evaluate whether Rick Riordan accurately represents Chiron in The Lightning Thief.
• watch video:

6. Compare and Contrast Chiron from The Lightning Thief and Greek Mythology (30 minutes): click here to access the classwork

   

7. Close-Out (5 minutes):

• Submit classwork.
• Collect books and headphones.
• Clean up workspace.
• Complete agenda: "The Legend of Perseus - Part 2"
• Pass out and explain homework.
• Assign yourself silently.

Today's Homework: "The Legend of Perseus - Part 2"

• view accompanying text here