—English I
—Week 15
and 16 Dec. 12-22
—The Odyssey
—Unit Due Dates for
Odyssey Reading Assignments
—Sailing from Troy through The Cyclops in
class page 951-968 in class Dec. 12-15th
—Cyclops summary due the Dec. 16th
—Land of the Dead though the Monsters pages
969-980 due Dec. 19th summary will be created
in class in the computer lab
—Part Two of the Odyssey due with completed
questions on Dec. 22
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—Monday
—Prompt: What is myth? Complete the Oh My God
Project.
—Read part I of the Odyssey
—Tuesday
—Prompt: Make
a list of action adventure movies and list the heroes in the film.
—Malicious-intentionally hateful (adjective)
—grammar – Study Island
—Tool Box
—Epic Hero
—Activity
—Read the Cyclops 957-968, create summary
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—Wednesday
—Journal: If you were a god, what powers would
you have?
—Grammar Packet
—Get out your textbook and turn to the
Cyclopes section
—Complete your Cyclopes section
—Create a summary
—Thursday
—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. What is your archetype extra
credit project
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—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)
—Project Must include
Lab Time Monday
—Four Summaries
and illustrations
-Cyclopes
-Land of the Dead
-Monsters
-Cattle of the Son God
*Map of the journey
—Friday
—
—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?
—
— Eager-feeling/showing much desire
—grammar : Grammar Packet Section Correct Sentence
Fragments page 2
—Tool Box: List Archetypes on the board and review
—
—Monday
—Lab must complete:
—Four Summaries and illustrations
-Cyclopes
-Land of the Dead
-Monsters
-Cattle of the Son God
*Map of the journey
—Tuesday
—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
—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
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—Wednesday
—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
—Movie
—Thursday 1/2 day
—Movie
—Key terms
—Define:
—archetype,
—Homeric simile,
—epithet,
—myth,
—epic hero,
— epic,
—minstrel,
— invocation,
— muse,
—god/goddess,
—imagery,
—metaphor,
—simile,
—personification,
—dramatic irony,
—tragic hero,
— tragedy,
— comedy,
—plot,
— protagonist,
— antagonist,
— author’s purpose,
— author’s style,
— diction,
— stanza,
— prose,
— paradox,
— literal,
—figurative
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