1. Lightening Thief

2. Learning Objective:
RL Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
W.6.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

3. AIM
How can identifying the traits of a hero support our understanding of our novel Lightening Thief?
What is a hero?

4. Rick Riordan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series .
… the Kane Chronicles, and the Heroes of Olympus. He is also the author of the multi-award-winning Tres Navarre mystery series for adults.
His Tres Navarre series went on to win the top three national awards in the mystery genre - the Edgar, the Anthony and the Shamus.
Riordan turned to children's fiction when he started The Lightning Thief as a bedtime story for his oldest son.

5. Author
For fifteen years, Rick taught English and history at public and private middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas. In 2002, Saint Mary’s Hall honored him with the school’s first Master Teacher Award.
He was a middle school teacher who taught mythology. While teaching full time, Riordan began writing mystery novels for grownups.
Today over thirty-three million copies of his Percy Jackson, Kane Chronicles, and Heroes of Olympus books are in print in the United States, and rights have been sold into more than 35 countries. Rick is also the author of The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, another #1 New York Times bestseller.  In 2011, Rick received the Children's Choice Book Award for Author of the Year.

6. Percy Jackson Like being under water – only place he could think
Dyslexia - gift
ADHD – gift – battle reflex
Peruses – father Poseidon, god of sea
Father forced to leave earth by Zeus
Was turning human
Did not allow him to return again
Cannot see children
Married to mother Sally
Must return lightening bolt by summer solstice
Water Gives him power
Has to find lightening bolt and return to Zeus otherwise war by summer solstice
Travels across the united states to find it

7. Fantasy Background Brothers Threaten war Zeus Poseidon Hades
Overthrown father Kronos
Rivals ever since
Threaten war

8. Greek Heroes: Hero I Period
Being half-mortal and half-immortal, the Greek heroes bridged the gap between the human world and the divine world in a number of ways:
their ability to interact directly with the gods.
Perseus obtained assistance from Athena only after spending the night in her temple praying
reinforcing to people the central importance of the gods' temples as sites of religious communion.

9. Zeus – God of Gods Olympus
Earth
Zeus – God of Gods Olympus
Demi God
Anabeth Daughter of
Athena
Hades
Persephone – wife
Forced to marry
Has pearls to take you to location
Demi Gods
Percy
Son of Poseidon

10. Demi Gods Half god half human – children : half bloods or demi Gods
Live on earth
Receive instruction from parents through their minds
Do not ever see Gods

11. Creatures Fury: Medusa: Minotaur:
Full of anger; flies, fire
Medusa:
Gorgon, Athena condemned her to hair of snakes and turn people to stone.
Goddess of vengeance.
Minotaur:
Fighting monster
Head of bull. Minos – Greek, taur - half

12. Creatures Centaur : half man, half horse Satyr - Greek Mythology
Roman Mythology - faun
Half man, half goat
Pegasus: Winged Horse
Unicorn: Mythical Horse with Horn on the Forehead.
Sphinx: It had the body of a lion and the upper part of a woman
Dragon: a mythical creature typically depicted as a large and powerful serpent/reptile
Pygmies: were a nation of dwarfs Phoenix: a mythical bird that dies in flames and is reborn from the ashes

13. Focus
Information
Point of View
traits
Conflict
Central idea

14. Percy Conquers Fury Minotaur Medusa
Perseus: First hero of Greek Mythology
Percy: fatal flaw: dyslexia, ADHD

15. Athena Father Zeus Favorite daughter Patron Goddess of Athens
War Goddess with focus on strategy rather than bloodshed
Goddess of wisdom and courage
Zeus swallowed Metis, his wife whole, and Athena was born out of his head

16. Zeus Passed law God cannot have contact with children
Poseidon was becoming human
Son of Kronos
Kronos who swallowed children whole so they would not kill him for power
Zeus was spared by sister Rhea who hid him away in the island of Krete
Rhea fed Kronos a stone, forcing him to throw up his other children.

17. Grover
Protects Percy
Earns horns for staying behind in Hades.

18. Luke Wants to bring Olympus down
Percy is return lightening bolt to Zeus
Luke Wants it
Son of Hermes
Wants Gods to destroy themselves
Create a new world
Lightening Theif

19. Setting: Goes back and forth from reality to fantasy

20. Hades Comes for lightening bolt Will come back
Sent minotaur to abduct her
Minotaur
In underworld
Banished by Zeus and Posideon

21. Plot
Needs to go to Zeus to convince him he did not steal lightening bolt
Finds pears to guide him

22. Medusa’s Liar Medusa killed uncle Fernindad
Turned him into stone when look at her eyes
Has snakes for hair
Was turned to snake with hair by Athena
Tried to turn Percy to stone

23. Demi -Gods Anabeth, Daughter of Athena, Goddess of Wisdom
Daughters of Aphrodite's, Goddess of love
Luke, son of Kermes

24. Fury Teacher turned into a fury Teacher in wheel chair
Gives him a pen to defend himself
God of war
Half man half horse

25. Harness powers

26. Las Vegas
Lotus Setting
Eat lotus flower and cannot leave