Golden Acorn Homeschool

I am SO proud of how well Cole did with this story.  It was long, so we broke it up over three days, and the language was very difficult.  I edited out the “um” sounds, but otherwise, this is all him.  I kept the errors and mixed up tenses as they are, but I used brackets [ ] to fill in names where he used too many pronouns.  Still, my spell checker in Word said this was a 4.8 grade level.  His verbal “writing” has really taken a huge leap in the last few months, and that is beginning to translate to the page.  :-)

Perseus

Acrisius found out his daughter would have a baby boy and that the baby was going to kill him.  Then Acrisius put Danae in a closet hoping that no one would go near her.  But, she had a baby anyway.  King Acrisius was still very worried and he put Danae and her baby at sea.  She started crying and singing a song to the baby.  Then they see cliffs and she cries for help.  Then Dictys pulls her out onto a rock and she said she would be his servant and live in his house.  Dictys said, “Come be my daughter, and your son will be my grandson.”

Perseus grows up and sees a woman who is taller than any man is, and her gray eyes were shining and bright.  Her name is Athena and she told him he would slay Medusa who was the mother of all monsters.  Athena wants him to chop off Medusa’s head.  He has to find the three gray sisters and they share one eye and one tooth, which is disgusting.

Medusa has snakes for hair and when you look at her face, you freeze into stone.  You have to cut her head off with the sword.  He [Perseus] has to use the shield to see her reflection.  Hermes came, he has golden sandals that have wings on them, and he gave them to Perseus, and a sword.  Then Perseus jumped off the cliff.

He flew over the land and it only took one day, and if he walked, it would have taken seven days.  He saw the three gray sisters and they were moving their eye back and forth.  Then he put out his arm so then he got the eye in his hand.  Then he said “Ha!  I have your eye and I will throw it in the ocean if you don’t tell the truth.”  They told him where to go and the seagulls were telling him to stop and play.

Then Perseus sees the three nymphs dancing and a dragon is watching.  They go up to see their uncle named Atlas and he is holding the heavens and earth apart.  They ask him where the Gorgons live.  The uncle says go down to Hades and get the magic hat of darkness.  And then a nymph brought back the hat in seven days.  Atlas said, “When you bring back Medusa’s head, can you show me the eyes so I can freeze into stone, because I want to keep the heavens away from the earth and I don’t want it to hurt anymore.

He [Perseus] gets the hat and then he sees the three Gorgons and two looked like dragons and the other one was Medusa.  So then, with his shield looking at her, he chopped her head off because she was asleep.  He flew off and the sisters awoken and saw that Medusa was dead and they started chasing him.  The sandals were fast, even for Gorgons, so then he got away.

On his way back, he sees the giant [Atlas] and turns him into stone and then he kept going until he saw Egypt, or something.  Then he saw Egyptians and they gave him food and stuff but they wouldn’t let him go, so he put on the hat of darkness and disappeared.  On his way through the desert, Medusa’s head was bleeding snakes.

He left the Egyptians and starts flying home.  Then he sees a woman [Andromeda] chained up to a rock next to the sea because her mom did a bad deed.  She [Cassiopeia] said that Andromeda was more beautiful than the queen of the sea.  Then Perseus set Andromeda free with his sword, but the sea monster was coming.  Perseus said, “If I defeat this monster, you will marry me.”  Then he started to fight the monster and he defeated it.  Then he marries Andromeda and says he has to go back home, but everyone says stay for at least one year.  So, he stays for one year.

Then he sees Phineus and his army, and then Phineus says, “My son does not have a bride.”  So then, Perseus laughs and says, “Let your son save a maid for himself.”  Then he [Perseus] turns them all into stone.  Then he goes home after seven years.  He had seven children, and when he died, Athena made them all stars in heaven.

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