The purpose of this unit is to encourage reading and creative writing The creator’s aim among others, is “to use mythology s an impetus to creativity in other areas of schoolwork such as in art, English, and social studies”, hence link between mythology and other subject from the students’ curriculum.

The activities involve reading, creative writing: sending letters to other students while pretending to be characters from a story (for example, writing a letter to Zeus), giving stories new endings, keeping a diary as a main character, writing new stories similar to the ones in the book, class newspaper. Art: creating posters, dolls, clay figures. Drama: pantomime, puppets show, panel discussions.

The unit also provides introduction to early Greek and Roman history.

The unit includes three lesson plans samples, bibliography for teachers and students, various materials for classroom use (videos, records, etc.).

This unit focuses on using mythology as an incentive for reading for young students, relying on the entertainment values of the myths (adapted to young readers). The myths offer adventure stories, fantasy, heroes and more. Furthermore, the creator wishes to introduce the reading of myth to other subjects in the students’ curricula, thus emphasizing the universalism of myth, which can relate to other learning fields as well.