At the beginning of pre-service teaching in September 2020, I was paired with a classmate under the same mentor. Our mentor taught both English 12 classes and Greek Mythology classes, and since my classmate did not know much about Greek Mythology, I volunteered to work more with that class due to my background of interest in Greek Mythology since middle school.

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            It all started with the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series by Rick Riordan that I started reading in fifth grade. From there, I finished the series with friends who were also interested, and then we started writing our own mythological stories. We shared them, spent our free time reading about other mythological stories in the school library, and fell in love with the gods, goddesses, and demigods of the Greek mythological world. It only seemed fitting that I shared my love of these stories with my mentor’s students who chose to be in her class as an elective.

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            Of course, I had to refresh my memory a little bit since it has been quite a few years since I actively set out to read more about Greek mythology in my free time. I watched videos such as the ones shown in the screenshots below to catch up my memory, and these are also the materials I showed the students in order to help them out, as well (please click on the pictures to go to the videos that are linked):

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