Topic: Myth and its features

English 10
Ms. Geraldine D. Anquillano

Lesson 1 for Synchronous Learning

 Objectives
1. Classify
1.
myths from other forms of oral literature and
explore its features;
2. Discuss the explanatory purpose of myths and what they
are meant to their audience;
3. Recognize belief and cultural differences among
ourselves.
Motivation
Kahoot Game! Agree or Disagree
Questions for discussion:
a.What kind of story do you think a myth is?
b.How do we differentiate a myth, a folktale and
a legend?
c.Why are myths and other oral narratives
important?
 MYTH
A traditional story explaining
THEME about how the world works
or how things came to be.
deities, demi-gods and
CHARACTERS supernatural creatures
Teach a lesson with a
PURPOSE religious functional
significance
Si Malakas at Si Maganda;
EXAMPLES Stories of Adam and Eve;
Hercules
LEGENDS FOLKTALE
A traditional story usually A fictional story usually to
includes an element of entertain the audience,
truth, but with mythical and sometimes even to
qualities teach them life lessons
Common people, animals
Real people;
Heroic characters
and sometimes magical
creatures
 Explain how and why Essentially give
entertainment but
something in nature came sometimes also teach life
to be; relay moral conduct lesson
Juan Tamad
The Tale of Aliguyon Hansel and Gretel
Robinhood
The Monkey and the
The Flying Dutchman
turtle
Questions for discussion:
a.What kind of story do you think a myth is?
b.How do we differentiate a myth, a folktale and
a legend?
c.Why are myths and other oral narratives
important?
Presentation
PADLET: Distinguishing Myth
 The Cosmic Egg

"In the beginning there was a huge egg that held all the opposites — hot
and cold, light and dark, wet and dry. Inside was Phan Ku, a giant who
was covered in hair. He had horns on his head and tusks sprang from his
mouth.
 
Phan Ku broke out of the egg and separated the opposites through all
the world. Every day, he carved out the mountains and oceans with his
chisel and mallet. And every day, for 18,000 years he grew three meters
taller.

When Phan Ku died his skull became the sky, his breath, the wind, his
flesh, soil, and his blood, rivers. The fleas in his hair became human
beings."
Abstraction
1.Where is the myth from?
2.What things are created in the myth?
3.How are things created?
Activity 1
Read the paragraph about the creation of
the world (See GENYO) based on Greek
mythology and complete the chart. (10
points)
Activity 1
Myth Title: _______ Structure/Comments
1. Where is the myth from?  
2. What and how things are  
created in the myth?
3. What are the supernatural  
parts?
4. Who are the characters? (e.g.  
heroes/gods)
5. What are the important events?  
Reminders:
1. Do Activity 1 and 2 (See GENYO)
2. Submit your work on time
3. Journal entries will be collected all at
once