December 5, 2005
Weekly Agenda
for 9th Grade Honors


Monday, December 5th:

Finish reading a Son Seeks a Father
Read and do reading log and time line

Read:

Book 5: “Calypso, the Sweet Nymph”
Draw Calypso’s Cave

Book 6: “The Princess Nausicaa”
Do reading log and time line

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Tuesday, December 6th:

Turn in your Prepositional Phrase handouts

Read:

Book 8: “The Song of the Minstrel”

The land of the Ciccones

Book 9: “The Lotus Eaters and the Cyclops”
Do time line and reading log
Public Service Announcements: “Do Not Eat the Lotus!”

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Wednesday, December 7th:

Book 10: “The Bag of Wind” and “The Witch Circe”
Are there lessons that Homer’s The Odyssey teach us? What lesson might the bag of wind or Circe, the witch, might teach us?


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Thursday, December 8th:

Appositive Handouts. This will be due on Tuesday, December 16th.

Book 11: “The Land of the Dead”
Book 12: “The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis”


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Friday, December 9th:

Journal: Write sentences using six of your vocabulary words from pages 24 - 33, and use an adverbial clause in two sentences, an adjective clause in two more sentences, and two more using appositives.


Do vocabulary, literary terms and comprehension handouts for The Odyssey.

On December 16th your notebook will be due!