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Greek Mythology Theme Paragraph

Using your myths and notes, identify a theme or an emerging big idea in one myth of your choice. Use at least 2 pieces of cited evidence to support your analysis of the big idea/theme that is developing in the myth.

  • Since our myths are retellings of originals, just cite the titles in order to give credit to the source. The titles are put into quotation marks because they are short stories.
  • You may NOT use demons in your writing--keep it formal.

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Greek Mythology Theme Paragraph

Using your myths and notes, identify a theme or an emerging big idea in one myth of your choice. Use at least 2 pieces of cited evidence to support your analysis of the big idea/theme that is developing in the myth.

  • Since our myths are retellings of originals, just cite the titles in order to give credit to the source. The titles are put into quotation marks because they are short stories.
  • You may NOT use demons in your writing--keep it formal.

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Rubric

Topic sentence

States title and opinion

2 points

Supporting evidence (2x)

Properly formatted evidence

3 points each

(6 points)

Explanation (2x)

Explains how the evidence supports the opinion/topic sentence

5 points

Each

(10 points)

Concluding sentence

Closes the paragraph without stating This/That/These/Those are the reasons why…

2 points