Outstanding Odyssey Project

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English I
Week 16
The Odyssey
Unit Due Dates
Summary and illustration of Land of the Dead 12/10
Summary and illustration of Cattle of the Son God 12/14
Summary and illustration of The Suitors 12/15
Summary and illustration of choice 12/17
Project due 12/17

Monday 12/8
Complete Film and seminar
Romeo and Juliet Test

Tuesday
Prompt: What is myth?
Cornell Notes on the Odyssey
Notes on myths
Notes on Gods
Read part I of the Odyssey
Hw create summary of Land of Dead by Friday and illustration
Assignment Odyssey Project Due Dec. 17th
Wednesday
Prompt: Make a list of action adventure movies and list the heroes in the film.
WDJ
Malicious-purposefully hateful (adjective)
grammar -Confusing Words
Tool Box
Epic Hero
Activity
Read the Cyclops 957-968, create summary, assign study guide

Thursday
Watch the first half of the Odyssey
Friday
Prompt: Free Write or finish your Land of the Dead Summary

WDJ: Pessimistic- without hope, seeing the worst side of things

Grammar: Start Grammar Packet counts as 50 point test grade. Ex One Complete Sentences.

Tool Box: Archetypes- reoccurring images, symbols, characters, patterns, and settings that give literature unity. The occur repeatedly in the literature of all ages.

Activities
Illustrate and Archetype and present to a small group (picture on the front and definition on the back) (assign each student one to do)
Read the Monsters chapters and Cattle of the Sun God Due Monday and Project Due Friday


Project Must include
Five Summaries and illustrations
-Cyclopes
-Land of the Dead
-Cattle of the Son God
-The Suitors
-Summary of choice
Grammar Packet
Odyssey Study Guide
Tuesday
Prompt: Can you think of a movie that uses archetypes? What archetypes does the movie depend on? Can you think of any movies with monsters?

WDJ: Eager-feeling/showing much desire

grammar : Grammar Packet Section Correct Sentence Fragments page 2

Tool Box: List Archetypes on the board and review

Quiz on cattle of the sun god
994-1000 Odysseus Returns
Suitors 1001-1003 summary and illustration HW Wed
Wednesday
prompt: Make a list of names that Odysseus is called in the poem. You can turn in list for extra credit if you can find ten names. Hint: that man skilled in all ways of contending, Laeters’ son
WDJ: Ambivalent-having conflicting feelings towards a person/thing
Grammar: Sentence Varity Chart
Tool Box: Epithets- is a descriptive word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing. Athena is the only one described 'grey-eyed'.
Activities
Create and Epithet for yourself on your id badge
Finish the Odyssey on your own

Thursday
prompt: Find some examples of really long similes from the Odyssey
WDJ: Remorseful-feeling or expressing extreme guilt for ones actions

Grammar: Packet Section (Compound Sentences 1-5)
Tool Box Homeric Simile- an extended simile often running to several lines, used typically in epic poetry to intensify the heroic stature of the subject and to serve as decoration. An example from the Iliad follows:
As when the shudder of the west wind suddenly rising scatters across the water, and the water darkens beneath it, so darkening were settled the ranks of Achaians and Trojans in the plain
Complete your project

Friday 12/17
Present work and complete film

Show offs

I wanted to post some of the wonderful projects I received this week. The topics are broad, but they are all great examples of your research and presentation skills.

Teen Suicide. on Prezi

Teen Marriage Today on Prezi

Career Project

Romeo and Juliet Research Project

Romeo and Juliet Research Project II