Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Winged Sandals: Challenges in Greek Myths

Currently the 4th Grade is working on a unit on Myths. The past few lessons, students have been taking a look on different Greek Myths, their (the myths) characteristics and the different characters. During the week of October 6th, the students learned about the heroes in Greek Myths and the different challenges they face in the stories. The students watched Winged Sandals: Perseus and Medusa and was presented to do the following:
After watching the following short film- Winged Sandals: Perseus and Medusa (clip from Unitedstreaming), answer the following question:
What was King Polydecte's challenge to Perseus?
Click on comments to post your answer.
Standards addressed: ELA
Grades 3-4
16.6 Acquire knowledge of culturally significant characters and events in Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology and other traditional literature

57 comments:

Anonymous said...

it was to get the head and turn him into stone. thats what he had to do

Anonymous said...

to go get the head of the stone

Anonymous said...

His challenge was to cut off one of the wichtes head

Anonymous said...

His challange was to rescue the girl.

Anonymous said...

to go get the head of the stone

Anonymous said...

The king canllgan perkiery to get ogor

Anonymous said...

His challenge wa to kill Perseus and rescue Medusa.

Anonymous said...

Persus's challange was to chop off a witche's head.

Anonymous said...

King Polydecte's challenge was to bring one of the sister's heads.

Anonymous said...

the challenge that the god gave him was to kill the main witch and get his head and bring it to the god and to rescue the girl. And he did what the god said.

Anonymous said...

His challenge was to kill Medusa to rescue Perseus.

Anonymous said...

to go get the haed of madusus

Anonymous said...

his challenge was to cut off a head,rescue the girl and get the head of the stone

Anonymous said...

He has to turn one of the wiches heas and turn them into stone .When he brings the stone head of the which .Ee gets his reward.

Anonymous said...

he had to cut of one of the witches head of to rescue the girl...... HI PEOPLE!!!!! :D

Anonymous said...

He had to cut of medusa's head of to rescue his mother

Anonymous said...

he had a big challenge to face so he could get the whiches head back.

Anonymous said...

to go get the head with snake on it.

Anonymous said...

The kings challenge was to cut off witch medusas head but who ever looked at her turned to stone

Anonymous said...

The chlange was to cut of the head of Medusa and ruscse his mom

Anonymous said...

It was to turn his head into a stone

Anonymous said...

The king said he would release Persuse's mother if he would cut of the wiches head.

Anonymous said...

he had to cut of the head of wich with thesnakes on her head

Anonymous said...

He cut a wiches head to save his mother.

Anonymous said...

King Polydecte's challenge to Perseus was for him to cut off one of the witches heads so Perseus could get his mother back from King Polydecte who kidnapped her.

Anonymous said...

The king seand had to cut fo the wehes had.

Anonymous said...

I think his challenge was to cut one of the wichtes head and bring it back to the king so he can save his mother.

Anonymous said...

The king had to cut of one of the wich's head to save the girl.

Anonymous said...

his challenge is to cut Medusas head and save her mother

Anonymous said...

To get the witces head and to save his mother.

Anonymous said...

His challenge was to cut of Medusas head and to rescue the girl.

Anonymous said...

to cut medusas head head so he can rescue his mother

Anonymous said...

His challenge was to get Madusas head to free or to save his mother.

Anonymous said...

His challenge was to cut off Medusa's head and turn the King into stone and save his Mom.

Anonymous said...

His challenge was that he had to kill Medus. Then he had to bring her head to the king.

Anonymous said...

King Polydecte told Persues to cut off Medusa's head and to bring it to him.

Anonymous said...

he had to cut off one of te wiches head and he turn itn into stone and then heb gets his reward.

Anonymous said...

he is trying to get Madusas head so he can save or or free her.

Anonymous said...

His challenge was to chop off one of the ladys heads.

Anonymous said...

My commet about this short show is that it is exciteing you can really find out that it is fake but i like it

Anonymous said...

His challenge was to chop the creepy lookin lady's head off

Anonymous said...

He had to cut off a witch's head, and that witch had a special power that when she looked at something or someone they turned into a stone.

Anonymous said...

His chalange was to bring the wichtes head and save the girl

Anonymous said...

Pesuse's goal was to go into the cave where the sisters lived to cut of Medusas head and to free her mother.

Anonymous said...

Pesuse's challange was to cut of the wiches head

Anonymous said...

His challenge was to cut off the witches head and freeze the king of the village, andmade abird fly on his head and he saved his mom.

Anonymous said...

Perseuse's challenge was to get one head of the three witches head and turn the bad guy ne. Then he would save the priness.

Anonymous said...

persues's challenge was to cut off Medusa's head and if he did he will save his mother.

Anonymous said...

He had to cut off medse's head

Anonymous said...

Challange was that he comes back with muducus head

Anonymous said...

really really entrestingn

Anonymous said...

Perseu's challenge was to get one
of the witches head.

Anonymous said...

The challenge was to cut off one of the wichtes head and freeze and bring it back to the village and then after that the witch that the man cut off the head turned into a flying horse.

Anonymous said...

The challenge was to cut off one of the wichtes head and freeze and bring it back to the village and then after that the witch that the man cut off the head turned into a flying horse.

Anonymous said...

The lenge the god gave him was to kill the main witch and get his head and bring it to the god and to rescue the girl and thats what the god said.

Anonymous said...

His challenge was to kill the withch that could freeze anything in her way and get the head of her and save the girl.

Anonymous said...

He brought the head and freeze him.