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Arthur, the young boy who pulled the sword from the stone to claim the crown of England. Robin, the hooded outlaw who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Zorro, the swashbuckling swordsman with a secret identity and a heart for the lowest peasant. Theseus, who ferociously battled the minotaur before finding his way out of the labyrinth. Achilles, the heroic warrior who fought in the battle of Troy, only to be killed by an arrow in his heel. And the Greek Gods of Mount Olympus - Apollo, Hades, Poseidon and Zeus! All of these and many more are fantastic characters from myth and legend!
Year 5 and 6, your task this Christmas is to research a character or creature from myth or legend and comment at least 100 words to tell us about them. Once you have told us the name of your chosen character, here are some ideas of what you could write about:
1) Who are they? Why are they famous? What did they do?
2) What are their strengths? What do you like about them?
3) What are their weaknesses? Did they have a downfall?
We all look forward to reading your writing over the coming days (Deadline: Friday 6th January) and then seeing your costumes that first week back! This topic promises to be brilliant!
But before then, from all the Upper Junior staff, have a very happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year!
Comments that people have made about this blog post
Merry Christmas everyone and a happy new year .
Medusa was the daughter of Phorkys and Keto, the children of Gaia (Earth) and Okeanos (Ocean). She was one of the three sisters called the Gorgons. The other two sisters were Sthenno and Euryale. Medusa was the only one out of the three who could'nt live forever. She was very beautiful and lived in the north where there was no sun. Being very curious, she wanted to see the sun, and asked the Goddess Athena if she could go to the south. Athena refused to let her visit. Medusa got very angry and said that the only reason Athena wouldn't let her go was because she was jealous of her beauty. Athena was extremely annoyed and punished her by turning her hair into snakes and cursing her by making her so ugly that who ever looked at her eyes would turn into stone.
Happy Christmas everyone and have fantastic new year!!!!!
See you soon!
Aphrotide is the Greek god of love,beauty,pleasure and procreation.The Romans called her the goddess Venus.When Aprodite was born she (amazingly) rose out of the sea in a cloud of foam!
She is known to be the most beautiful goddes in Olympia... Aphrodite was kind and all But she also wanted revenge on people who were mean to her.She was liked by everybody, gods ,goddesses and mortals, sometimes Aphrodites beauty made others jealous!
When the god Eris instigated a fight by causing Aphrodite,Athena and Hera to argue about who was the fairest and prettiest,Paris (another Greek god) was to be the judge.All three goddesses tried to bribe Paris to let them win...Paris liked Aphrodite's bribe the most, which ment that Helen would fall in love with him! When Aphrodite lost a beauty contest, against a goddess called Cale she turned into a ugly old woman!
Aphrodite
by Molly-Merry Christmas All and a Happy Knew Year! See You All Soon!
Medusa is the daughter of Phorkey's and Keto she has a broad round face somtimes showing tuks,with hair made of alive snakes.She can stop anything in it's tracks.Her served head will turn anything into stone including those who see it by accident. She used to be beautiful but Athena was so jealous she put a curse on Medusa which made her amazing hair turn to snakes so whoever made contact with her eyes would to stone. While Medusa was looking for Perseus in her lare he managed to trick her by making her stop and seeing her reflection in his sheild which then allowed him to cut of her head with his powerful sword.
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year
By,
Matthew T
So one day she sent madness to Hercules so that he went so crazy that he killed his wife and two children! When Hera freed Hercules of his madness he realised what he had done and went straight to Apollo the sun god to ask what to do for the gods to forgive him. Apollo said "the gods will forgive you if you do twelve hard jobs for Eurystheus, the king of Argos." - these were called the twelve labours of Hercules. The labours he had to do were: Nemean Lion, Hydra, Keryneian Stag, Erymanthian Boar, Augean Stables, Stymphalian Birds, Cretan Bull, Diomedes' Mares, Hippolyta's Belt, Geryon's Cattle, Antaeus, and Golden Apples of the Hesperides.
by, Hayden
St George is famous for his wonderful courage and his amazing sword work when he fought the dragon. St George is the patron saint of England, and the red cross of St. George is on the national flag. In England, his day is the 23rd of April. St George is also the patron saint of several other countries, including Canada, China, Greece, Russia, Portugal, Palestine, Ethiopia, Serbia, and Montenegro. One country is even named after him – and that’s the Georgia which is situated between Russia and Turkey. St George is often painted as a knight in armor from the Middle Ages, but in fact born long before those times, when the Romans still ruled much of the world. The story was popular in the Middle East and it was picked up by the Crusaders when they went out to that part of the world.
Hope everyone had a great Christmas and a happy new year
Abbie. B
by Hal Smillie
Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy new year!!!!!!
Class China: Plagiarism is not something we encourage on the blogs as it is passing off someone else's work as your own... and that's not fair to them. Please write your own thoughts, folks. Afterall, how will you ever get to become better writers if all you do is copy and paste other people's work?
Why Apollo is famous.
One of the 12 Olympians of Greek myth, Apollo is the God of light, youth, beauty and prophesy. One of Apollo’s greatest deeds was the killing of serpent Python, the feared beast residing in the hills near Delphi. Apollo came down from Mount Olympus and with his silver bow and golden arrows, he slayed the beast in one shot to save the people of the land.
One of Apollo’s down falls was mocking Eros saying he had no archery skill. So Eros shot one arrow at Apollo which made infatuated with the sea nymph Daphne. Then he shot another at Daphne which made her not love anyone.
What I like about Apollo is his courage for fighting the feared beast, Python and his kindness for the people of the land and defeating Python and making the land save for the people
By Chris p happy new year!
Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.
Happy New Year.
Mrs Galvin
I like the Green knight because he is a mountain of a man who would not flinch at a wrecking ball about to hit him in his green hairy face!
In this legend The Green Knight sets a challenge, that someone must strike at his neck with a great axe. Sir Gawain said he would… and he did ….. Sir Gawain raised the axe above his head and bought it down with as much force as a man his size could muster.
The green knights challenge was to test Sir Gawains courage, the legend also shows how important honesty and loyalty are between knights.
Some historians believe that The Green Knight and The Green Man are the same person.
The Cyclops were just like humans but they had one large eye in the middle of their forehead and they were gigantic. There were three main Cyclops. Bromtes who produced thunder, Steropes who produced lightening and Arges who sent light. The Cyclops were born to Gaea and her son Uranus but they had other children including the twelve Titans.
The Cyclops were the first blacksmiths and volcanoes were believed to be what was left of their work. They didn’t really have any weaknesses but were all either killed or injured in battle. Apollo killed at least one of the Cyclops in revenge for Zeus (king of the gods) killing his son Aesculapius.
King Leonidas was a very honoured king having died in the battle of
Themopylae. This happened in 480 B.C. King Leonidas was famous for what he
did when Greece was being threatened by Persia. At that time there was a
lot of argument between the many Cities in Greece. But king Leonidas just
said "We need to do something about this before we all get attacked!"
set out knowing that he would not return. He gathered the 300 willing
Spartans and prepared for the attack!
The Greeks chose a narrow strip of ground between the sea and the mountains
to stop the invading army. In total their 7000 Greeks were attacked by the
army of Xerxes, maybe as many as 250000 soldiers. For the 7 days that
followed the determined Greeks stood their ground, but then they were
betrayed. As soon as king Leonidas heard of this he sent half of his
remaining troops back to save the army. The 3000 or so troops that were left
behind to guard the Themopylae passage got massacred by the huge amount
remaining Persians. The same happened to the troops sent back...the Greeks
were defeated!
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