Name: ________________________________ Date: _______________________

Ancient Greek Gods and Goddess: The Social Network Connection

This assessment is meant to be fun and creative, but still requires you to think critically about the god or
goddess to accurately portray them. Your Facebook page must be based on the facts about the god or
goddess- you can not make choices based on whatever you like. The page you make must be an accurate
reflection of the god or goddess.

Your profile should be a must be handwritten; you may use large paper or a poster board for this. It must
include the following elements:
• A “Status Update”: Your “status update” should be a creative one sentence explanation of how your
god or goddess is feeling, or what he or she is doing at any particular time. Be creative!

• A Photo Representation of the Character: Include a drawing, magazine clipping, printed picture,
etc. that you feel depicts your chosen character. It can be an actual picture of a person or a symbolic
representation- as long as you feel it reflects your god or goddess!

• Friends: Who might your god or goddess’s friends be? Choose three from the text and include a
picture representation and their name.

• Wall Posts: What might the god’s or goddess’s friends say to them? Include at least two “wall
posts” from their friends reflecting information from the myths.

• Basic Information: Identify your chosen god or goddess’s gender, hometown (or patron city), and
relationship status. If the page says date of birth, you can make it the city of birth or patron city.

• Personal Information:
o Interests: Based on myths about your god or goddess, what kinds of things do you think
they’re interested in? What might their hobbies be? Be creative! (Minimum 5)

o Favorite Music: Another opportunity to be creative- choose a song whose lyrics represent
your god or goddess AND explain briefly why it’s a favorite (ie. This is my favorite song
because it’s about someone who has a lot of trouble expressing herself…reminds me of me!)

o About Me: How would your god or goddess describe her or himself? Use events and
information about him or her to develop your explanation.

o Optional Categories: If you want, you may include your god or goddess’s favorite TV
shows, movies, books, work, or education information, etc.

• Bibliography: At the bottom of your poster, include a bibliography of at least two sources you used,
in MLA format. We will review this format in class.

I have included a sample profile (of the goddess Demeter- you may NOT choose her) for you to get an idea
of what I am looking for. I have also included a blank template showing how you should set your poster up.
 Demeter (Example Facebook)
Demeter is saying goodbye to her daughter Persephone…it’s going to be a long winter.

Basic Information
Gender: Female
Hometown: Mt. Olympus
Relationship Status: It’s complicated with Zeus,
Poseiden, and Iason
Children: Persephone , Zagreus, Despoina, Arion, Plutus,
Philomelus

Personal Information
Interests: Spending time with my favorite daughter,
spring time, the harvest, agriculture, eating cereal and
other whole grains, fertility.

Favorite Music: Homer’s hymn in my honor, Vivaldi’s

Insert Insert Insert About Me: I am the Greek goddess of the harvest and
Picture Picture Picture agriculture, making me an important part of the lives of
Here Here Here most Ancient Greeks. In the most famous myth about me,
my daughter Persephone was kidnapped by Hades, god of
the underworld. While she was in the underworld, he
Persephone Hades Zeus
tricked her into eating six pomegranate seeds. In her
absence, I was distraught. The harvest stopped, and a cold
winter settled over the Earth. Seeing the destruction of
Demeter’s Wall Earth, Zeus demanded that Hades return her to me. When
she finally returned, six months later, I rejoiced, and Earth
“Nothing says I love you more than had its first spring. Every year, she must spend six
harvesting 20 bushels of wheat.” months with Hades, one for each pomegranate seed, and
the Earth spends six months in winter.
Zeus writes: Come on, Demeter.
Don’t you think it’s time to let the
harvest start again?

Bibliography:
"Demeter - Crystalinks." Crystalinks Metaphysical and Science Website. Web. 13 Sept. 2010.
<http://www.crystalinks.com/demeter.html>.
“Demeter.” Atsma, Aaron J. Theoi Greek Mythology. Web. 13 Sept. 2010.
<http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Demeter.html>.
"Persephone." Encyclopedia Mythica: Mythology, Folklore, and Religion. 24 June 2005. Web. 13 Sept.
2010. <http://www.pantheon.org/articles/p/persephone.html>.
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_________ is…

Basic Information

Gender:

Hometown:

Relationship Status:

Personal Information

Interests:

Favorite Music:
Friends “The gods and goddesses of Ancient Greek
Mythology”; WorldHistory.org;
4/9/2021.https://worldhistory.org/video/2432/the-12-
olympians-the-gods-and-goddesses-of-ancient/.

Wall

About Me:

Bibliography: i am the godness of childbirth,wild animals,wilderness, and hunting i also procetor of young
childern and i help and bring relive to diseases in woman. my parents are zeus and leto, i have
a twin brother named apollo. i was born in ortygia. if you ever see me i will be wearing knee
length lenic and poeple sayi am a beautiful young woman with a borrow and arrow. i am the
symbol of the moon and ferility.me and my twin were sent to kill nobiles childern we alos
turned nobile to stone.wesent a boar to kill adonis. agamemnon offered their own daughter out
of fear. some might say we have werid punishments we turn our hunter companons to stag
and we devour our own hunting dogs.
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WallInformation
Wall
Name: _________________________ Date: ___________________
Rubric: Facebook Project
Includes all required elements (65 points total)
Status………………………………………………………………………...______ (of 5)
Picture…………………………………………………………………….....______ (of 5)
3 Friends and Pictures ……………………………………………………....______ (of 5)
2 Wall Posts……………………………………………………………….....______ (of 10)
Basic Information…………………………………………………………....______ (of 5)
Minimum 5 Interests…………………………………………………………______ (of 5)
Favorite Music…………………………………………………………….....______ (of 5)
About Me……………………………………………………………………______ (of 5)
Bibliography…………………………………………………………………______ (of 20)

Information is fact-based and not merely chosen at random………………………...______ (of 20)

Displays creativity, effort, and thought……………………………………………...______ (of 10)

Spelling, grammar, and mechanics………………………………………………….______ (of 5)

TOTAL: ____________________________