Lesson Plan on Myths, Lesson Plan on Myths, Folktales, and Legends Use this in the classroom to teach your lesson, use it when you have a sub and need one quickly, to team teach, cross curriular, or send it home with the student if they are absent the day you cover this. I would not turn kids loose on this page. Students will be familiar with some literature representative of all three types. Students will appreciate literature more having some background knowledge and history as a foundation to understanding it. General links covering these if you need them.
Mythology often addresses the theme of good conquering over evil.
Scholars of mythology usually define a myth as a kind of story which attempts to interpret some aspect of the world around us. The terms legend and folktale are sometimes used interchangeably with myth. Technically, however, these are not the same. It may explain the origin of the universe and of life, or it may express its culture's moral values in human terms. Myths concern the powers who control the human world and the relationship between those powers and human beings.