Assembly: myths and legends

 

Equipment: OHP acetates and pens.

 

Quiz.  Two teams, when a team answers a question, to play noughts and crosses on the OHP.

 

Questions

1   What colour was the knight that SirGawain had to fight against?

2. What was the name of the crew on Jason’s ship?
3. What did St. George kill?
4. Which King burnt the cakes?
5. What was the name of the monster who had snakes in her hair?
6. What shape was the table that King Arthur and his knights sat around?
7. What is the name of the Greek god who was meant to carry the world on his shoulders?
8. According to legend, there is a city under the sea.  What is its name?
9. What is the name of the King of the Greek gods?
10. What did King Arthur have to do in order to show that he was the King?

 

Writing your own legend

 

Once upon a time, a very long time ago, a certain King called King Brown ruled the land.  He was very                      , and liked eating                             .  Everyone was                       of him.

 

One day, behold! a brave knight called                     arrived at King Brown’s Castle.  The Castle looked like a                         , and the brave night knocked on the door.  “Please let me in!” he shouted.  King Brown took one look at him and                         .  “You’d better come in then,” he said.  “What can I do for you?”

 

“Aha!” said the brave knight.  “I am in search of a fair maiden, who will look after me in my old age and cook me                         when I am hungry.”

 

“No problem,” said King Brown.  “I know just the one.  She’s called                         and she lives in a                     .There is only one thing-her hobby is                                .  Are you sure you can cope?”

 

“Verily,” said our brave knight.

 

“Oh, and one more thing,” said King Brown.  “Before you can marry her you must bring me a                        .”  “You must be joking,” said the knight.

 

“No I am not joking,” said King Brown, “And you had better get on with it before I                                 .”.

So our brave knight went off on his                               to look for                                .It took him a long time, in fact took him                years.

 

On the way he saw a fierce                            .

 

“                                                 ,” he said.  “I’m not afraid of you.”  And he                        the                      with his favourite                              .

 

Soon he found the…………………and brought it back to King Brown.  “About time,” said King Brown.  “I thought you must have gone to………………………..”

 

“Can I have my fair maiden now?” said the knight.

 

“Yes, here you are,” said King Brown.  So the knight and the maiden got married in a………………and lived happily ever after in………………………..The end.

 

The problem with lots of these stories is that they make us think that the only important people are the people who do big things and brave things.  None of us is ever going to have a myth or a legend written about our lives, but to God our lives are like a story that is just as important as any adventure by a King or a knight.  I’m going to read some verses from one of my favourite parts of the Bible.

 

Psalm 139, v. 13 to 16.

 

For it was you who formed my inward parts;

You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works;

That I know very well.

My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret. 

Your eyes saw my unformed body.

In your book were written the days that were formed for me,

When none of them as yet existed.

 

To God the most important story is your life and my life.  He doesn’t expect us to be heroes or heroines but just to know that to him every day of our lives is an adventure which he will remember for ever, even if other people don’t put us in their story books.

 

Pray.

 

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