I show my students how they can start a play about Mythical beasts in Ancient Greece.

1. Beginning a Greek Mythical beasts
play
Pili Biarge for Mythbycuadernodemaestra

2. A nice play to live
• All the different families of beasts live
together in a village. All of them are friends.
Or
• The different families of beasts live in
different villages. They are not friends but
they live in peace.

3. Greek jobs for mythical beasts
Ancient Greek people used to humanize their
gods and beasts.
So Greek mythical beasts lived
and worked as ancient Greek.

4. Greek jobs for mythical beasts

5. Greek jobs for mythical beasts
• All them are warriors. Doing sport and
exercise is well considerate.
Or
• Some are warriors. Sport and exercise is
common.

6. Ways of life for mythical beasts
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Life is energetic. They love sport and preparing one Olympic
games after another.
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life is calm down.
They sing all day.
They love games and board games and
spend lots of time in competitions.
They love theatre and are always honouring
playwrights.
They love philosophy and spend long time solving questions and
problems in the “agora”.
They love food and are always preparing meals and having dinners
together.
War is a way of life.
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7. Special characteristics of ancient
Greek way of life
Ancient Greek and probably your mythological
beasts spend part of the day in a public space called
“agora”.
Agora was a square where
They met and took decisions about
Governing or just discussed about peace, war,
philosophy, mathematics, plays of theatre.
They also used to buy food and celebrate there.

8. Happy beginning!!
Now you can also meet and decide as
a group about the beginning of your
play.
Remember you have to write your decisions. You
can also ask miss pili for a piece of advice or any
problem you have.