Abiator's Reading: Blooms Set 05:01 ACTIVITIES for _In the Beginning & Pandora's Box

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In the Beginning & Pandora's Box
Retold by Geraldine McCaughrean

Abiator's Reading:
Bloom's Set 05:01
ACTIVITIES
Total Marks: 21

Essential Texts, Stage 3, Literacy World
An Anthology Compiled By Brian Moses
Abiator's Active Classroom, http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/
AJBerghuis,2004-2005©

KNOWLEDGE - What are the facts

1.   According to this myth, where did the gods live?  [1 mark]
2.   What task was given to Epimetheus and Prometheus?  [1 mark]
3.   According to this myth, what was the name of the first woman on the Earth?  [1 mark]

COMPREHENSION - Show that you understand the information

4. Why did nothing move in the landscape in the beginning? [1 mark]
5. Just after Pandora and Epimetheus were married, why is the world a "wonderful place to live" [p31]? [1 mark]

APPLICATION - Using what you have read in the article

6. Find two pictures (from a magazine, newspaper, etc.) which reflect how Pandora might have felt during this story. Glue each picture in your book and give each picture a caption explaining how your picture reflects how Pandora felt, and say also why she felt this way. [3 marks] [Help]

ANALYSIS - Organising information from the article

7. Draw a Multiple Cause-and-Effects Map [What?] for the following event: Pandora opens the box. [4 marks]

SYNTHESIS - Coming up with new ideas

8. Draw an advertisement which is designed to encourage Pandora to open the box. Make sure it is colourful, balanced, and contains language which is likely to be persuasive [4 marks]

EVALUATION - Seeing both sides

9. Do a PMI [What?] about the idea from the myth that good things and bad things are actually real living creatures. [4 marks] [Help]

Making judgements
10. Give Pandora and Epimetheus a rating each, from 1 to 10, depending on how intelligent they were based on their actions in this story. [1 mark]