Newspaper Article Assignment! Due Monday!

(Newspaper) Article

Directions:   Write an article in the style of a newspaper using formal voice in which you retell the story of one of the myths we have read or discussed so far in class.

Voice elements

• Formal voice in main text; school appropriate informal voice can be in quotations (slang, etc)
• No first person or second person in main text; first person appropriate in quotations
• Average to long sentences

• Length:  1- 1 ½ pages

Suggested myths:

• Struggle between the gods (Uranus, Cronus, Zeus)
• Demeter and Persephone
• Dionysus
• Creation of Mankind—Metals
• Prometheus and Epimetheus
• Prometheus and Io

The world was shocked yesterday by the sudden abduction of Persephone and her subsequent kidnapping down to the realm of Hades. Witnesses say that lord of death himself suddenly appeared on his chariot and snatched the innocent Persephone who was simply wandering in a field looking for flowers. 

“I could see him in the distance,” a witness said.  “He didn’t give Persephone any choice about whether she wanted to come with him.  I was like so terrified.” Investigators into her disappearance are still not sure what Hades’ motives were.     (Continued…)