Driving Question: How are the myths that we share relate to literal and symbolic truth?

Since the beginning, humans have been searching for truth. As far as we know we are unique in our wondering why. Why do we exist? What is the purpose of life? Myths were our first attempts at understanding that truth. As people developed faith in the truth of these stories they became religions. For the most part the difference between myth and religion is that religion is the stories you believe and myths are the stories other people believe. In the 17th century world thought led to the birth of modern science and the scientific method. Our journey to understand the nature of everything no longer relied on faith, but on evidence based reasoning. We are still susceptible to mythological explanations, so an understanding of how myths and religion work is essential to gaining knowledge.

Thrill of Danger - The study of world religions and mythology challenges one's own faith. Nothing is more dangerous than challenging deeply held beliefs.

Creation - Students will be creating presentations about their chosen creation story.

Discovery - Through research students will become experts on their chosen story.

Advancement and Completion - The plan is to set up levels of project completion that correspond with the six days of creation from Genesis.