Hello! Today you need: your READING comp. book. a book to read/annotate for when you are done with today’s work.

Go to the next available page in your comp. book Write out today’s date on the first line in the upper left-hand corner. Title it Arachne as a Cultural Artifact Add it to your Table of Contents.

Greek Mythology A group of stories told to explain the mysteries of the world. A few examples include: Why the sun rises. How flowers can to be. What causes different types of weather. How suffering came into the world. We can infer about the Greeks and their culture from their myths. For example: Their values. Their religion. Their technology. Their arts.

Answer the following questions: What did “Arachne” explain to the ancient Greeks? The myth “Arachne” explained…………….. This is shown in the story when………… As historians, what can we infer about the Greeks and their culture from this myth? As historians, we can infer that…………………..because…………….. We can also infer………………….because. And finally, we can infer that………….because.