DIY Myths
Preface: This scene from the Percy Jackson movie (disappointing... bad adaptation of the book but still kind of iconic) where they eat the Lotus flowers while Poker Face plays lives rent free in my mind. Mythology has always been something that has interested me, I don't know someone my age who wasn't obsessed with Percy Jackson as a kid. Reading mythology is so fun, but I never thought to attempt to write my own myth until this class assigned exactly that to me. I thought that writing a myth actually had me really reflecting on the myths that I was interested in as a child, and thinking about the fundamental questions those myths potentially answered. I also normally do not really write creatively, so this was a fun way for me to try something new. Writing a myth about Nerds Gummy Clusters as a source of human happiness is pretty unserious. I could definitely see myself assigning a similar assignment to future students, a whole unit on reading a myth and then writin...
