7th Grade Reading 2016 Syllabus for

Mythology by Edith Hamilton

Due Date

Assignment

8/31
Beginning of the book to page 47(Intro to Classic Mythology, Part 1 The
Creation, and the Earliest Heroes)
9/7
Pp. 48 95 (2. The Two Great Gods of Earth, 3. How the World and
Mankind were Created, 4. The Earliest Heroes)
Pp. 105 112 (6. Eight Brief Tales of Lovers)
9/14

Pp. 122 135 (7. The Quest for the Golden Fleece)
Pp. 139 179 (Pegasus and Bellerophon, Otus and Ephialtes, Daedalus,
Part 3 The Great Heroes before the Trojan War, ends with Hercules)
Pp. 180 210 (Atalanta, Heroes of the Trojan War, ends with the Fall of
Troy)

9/28

Pp. 210 229. The adventures of Odysseus

9/29
9/30

Final Exam (Final Log check)

* The page numbers may be different in each book that is why I labeled each section.
Please see me if you have any questions.
*Project is to take a myth and put on a good performance by you or with a maximum of
two others.
* Remember to place ten vocabulary words in your log each week, 50 by the end of the
book.