Monday, December 07, 2015

December 7, 2015 - December 11, 2015 Weekly Agenda for 9th Grade English

Monday, December 7th:


1st Period: 

BIC:

8:00 – 8:15
SILENT SUSTAINED READING
READING LOG
Your third and final reading log and AR test is due on Friday, December 11th.

Vocabulary:
Atlas handout
Vocabulary worksheet

Odysseus: the name of the hero or protagonist of the epic poem, The Odyssey, which means a great journey filled with many dangers and adventures.
Melancholy:  a great and profound sadness.

THE ODYSSEY
THE ODYSSEY starts not with Odysseus’ story but with his son’s story – and his wife’s story.

Read page 880
“Odysseus: A Hero in Trouble”
“The Ancient World and Ours”
“A Search for Their Places in the World" 


3rd Period: 

Silent Sustained Reading
Reading Log
Your third and final reading log and AR test is due on Friday, December 11th. 

Vocabulary: 
Atlas handout
Vocabulary worksheet





Tuesday, December 8th:



BIC:
8:00 – 8:15
Silent Sustained Reading
Your reading log and AR test for your third book is due on Friday, December 11th.

Vocabulary:
Calypso
Vocabulary story and worksheet
Discussion of the Mediterranean, where Calypso’s island is, and the Caribbean, where calypso music is from.

Passed out THE ODYSSEY, “Part One: A Son Seeks a Father”
Read up to page 723]

What is the definition of theme?
Dalicia – the purpose of the story
Arath – the message
Jasmine – the subject

The theme is the message or world view that the author wishes to convey through the story. It is a universal message that can apply to us all, regardless of age, race, country, or gender.

Theme is always a sentence. People confuse theme with subject. People will say the theme of Romeo and Juliet is about love. That is the subject, not the theme. The theme is a statement which expresses a universal truth. For example, a possible theme for R+J is the foolishness of adults can destroy the young, or careless reckless love will destroy itself.

One can find the theme by giving the protagonist or the antagonist an adjective describing the central characteristic:

Lord Capulet – old, father, foolish, rash, stubborn, violent

Next, look for a strong action verb that captures an action that the protagonist does: holds onto grudges, doesn’t listen to their children, does not have their child’s best interest at heart, violent, impulsive, rash,

Foolish violent parents who make rash decisions –

Finally, what happens at the end of the story as the result of the parents’ actions? Juliet is forced into making a series of risky and ultimately lethal decisions, which leads to her suicide.

Their child is destroyed.

One of the possible themes of ROMEO and JULIET is violent, rash parents who do not listen to the needs of their children will ultimately destroy them.

Bear in mind that there may be many possible themes for a story, a novel, a play, or a movie. 

Book One: “Athena advises Telemachus”

One of the many things gods and goddesses can do is disguise themselves. Athena disguises herself as an old man named Mentor and goes to Telemachus to offer advice. We use this term, mentor, for someone who offers guidance and advice.

Domains: kingdoms, areas over which one has power or dominion.

Suitors: a man who seeks marriage with another person

Din: loud noise

Notice how Telemachus immediately goes over to a distinguished visitor (Athena disguised as a man, Mentor) and offers “him” food and drink before asking him his name. In Greek society, the ties between host and guest were sacred, and for a host to abuse a guest or a guest to be rude to a host was thought to be offensive to the Greek gods.

Period 3:


Silent Sustained Reading – 10 minutes
Work on your reading log and/or AR Test
Your third and final book is due this Friday, December 11th.

Vocabulary:
Calypso
Vocabulary Handout

The theme is the message or world view that the author wishes to convey through the story. It is a universal message that can apply to us all, regardless of age, race, country, or gender.

Theme is always a sentence. People confuse theme with subject. People will say the theme of Romeo and Juliet is about love. That is the subject, not the theme. The theme is a statement which expresses a universal truth. For example, a possible theme for R+J is the foolishness of adults can destroy the young, or careless reckless love will destroy itself.

One can find the theme by giving the protagonist or the antagonist an adjective describing the central characteristic:

Lord Capulet – old, father, foolish, rash, stubborn, violent

Next, look for a strong action verb that captures an action that the protagonist does: holds onto grudges, doesn’t listen to their children, does not have their child’s best interest at heart, violent, impulsive, rash,

Foolish violent parents who make rash decisions –

Finally, what happens at the end of the story as the result of the parents’ actions? Juliet is forced into making a series of risky and ultimately lethal decisions, which leads to her suicide.

Their child is destroyed.

One of the possible themes of ROMEO and JULIET is violent, rash parents who do not listen to the needs of their children will ultimately destroy them.

Bear in mind that there may be many possible themes for a story, a novel, a play, or a movie. 

Book One: “Athena advises Telemachus”

One of the many things gods and goddesses can do is disguise themselves. Athena disguises herself as an old man named Mentor and goes to Telemachus to offer advice. We use this term, mentor, for someone who offers guidance and advice.

Domains: kingdoms, areas over which one has power or dominion.

Suitors: a man who seeks marriage with another person

Irked: to be annoyed

Din: loud noise

Simile:
“and drove these men like dead leaves….”

Notice how Telemachus immediately goes over to a distinguished visitor (Athena disguised as a man, Mentor) and offers “him” food and drink before asking him his errand. In Greek society, the ties between host and guest were sacred, and for a host to abuse a guest or a guest to be rude to a host was thought to be offensive to the Greek gods.
1.     Who was in the dining room with Telemachus?
2.     What were they doing?
3.     What guest suddenly arrived?
4.     What was the true identity of the guest?
5.     What was Telemachus daydreaming about while he was sitting in the banquet room?
6.     What was he wishing for?
Review of what we read today. Read up to page 723.


Wednesday, December 9th: 


8:00 – 8:15
BIC
Silent Sustained Reading
Remember: the third and final reading log and AR test will be due on Friday, December 11th.
Vocabulary Worksheet: Mentor
Review of Yesterday’s Reading:
One of the many things gods and goddesses can do is disguise themselves. Athena disguises herself as an old man named Mentor and goes to Telemachus to offer advice. We use this term, mentor, for someone who offers guidance and advice.

Domains: kingdoms, areas over which one has power or dominion.

Suitors: a man who seeks marriage with another person, one who courts another for the purpose of dating.

Irked: to be annoyed
Irksome: something which is annoying.
Taylor finds homework irksome.

Din: loud noise

Simile: a comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
“and drove these men like dead leaves….”

Notice how Telemachus immediately goes over to a distinguished visitor (Athena disguised as a man, Mentor) and offers “him” food and drink before asking him his errand. In Greek society, the ties between host and guest were sacred, and for a host to abuse a guest or a guest to be rude to a host was thought to be offensive to the Greek gods.

Reread page 723, from line 18 to 44, and then answer the following questions:
1.     Who was in the dining room with Telemachus? Suitors
2.     What were they doing?
3.     What guest suddenly arrived?
4.     What was the true identity of the guest?
5.     What was Telemachus daydreaming about while he was sitting in the banquet room?
6.     What was he wishing for?

Read from page 723; THE ODYSSEY
Vocabulary:
Upstarts: rude, impudent people who disrespect people of higher authority.
Engage: to confront an aggressive person in a fight or in combat.
Disperse: to scatter or to go in separate ways.
Sound craft: a boat that is water tight and will not sink.
Sage: a wise person
Contenders: people who are involved in a contest to win a prize.
Guile: (pronounced gile – long I – yul) trickery, ruse, deception

What did Athena tell Telemachus to do?
1.    Call an assembly to tell the suitors they must leave his home.
2.    Gather a boat and crew of twenty together to find out news about Odysseus.
3.    He should go to Nestor and Menelaus to find out news about his father.
What should Telemachus do if he finds out his father, Odysseus, is alive?
1.    Telemachus can return home
2.    Telemachus can hold out and wait another year for his father’s return.
What should Telemachus do if he finds out his father, Odysseus, is dead?
1.    Telemachus should return to Ithaca and raise a mound for his father and burn his gear (armor, spears, shield, boots, etc.) to honor his memory.
2.    Then marry his mother, Penelope, to another man.
3.    Then figure out the best way to punish the suitors, either through guile (trickery) or outright combat.

Students shared what they learned: 

Taylor - what Athena told Telemachus the course of action he must take
Dalicia - in patriarchal societies the closest male relatives, even young sons, can tell a woman what to do.
Jelani - Athena disguises herself as a mentor to advise humans. 


Thursday, December 10th:


1st Period:
SILENT SUSTAINED READING
YOUR THIRD AND FINAL BOOK WILL BE DUE THIS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11TH.

VOCABULARY GAME:
Pair up; find definitions for the words written on the board and write them down. The first team that gets the most  correct wins!

Winners:
Jennifer, Stephanie
Ki, Jelani, Arath
Angie, Natali

Read page 724; Book Two: “Telemachus Confronts the Suitors”

Sword – pronounced without the “w” sound; pronounced like sord.

Vocabulary:

Achaeans: another name for Greeks
Rawhide: leather with hair of the cow still on it

Metaphor/Personification:  (Dalicia)
Giving human qualities to inanimate objects.
“When primal Dawn spread on the eastern sky
Her fingers of pink light.” (Does the dawn have fingers?)

Aurora: the Greek name of the goddess for Dawn

Criers: messengers who were sent by the king to call out important information to the people.

Reread the passages numbered 78 – 115
Write a brief summary of what you have read.
Use the following questions to help you understand what you have read.

1.     Why did Telemachus call the suitors together?
2.     How did Athena help him?
3.     Who was Antinous?
4.     What trickery or deceit did Antinous accuse Penelope of doing?
5.     How did the suitors find out about the trickery or deceit?
6.     What did Antinous demand that Telemachus tell his mother to do?


Period 3:

Vocabulary:
Vulcan and Volcanoes
Answer the questions on your vocabulary handout

VOCABULARY GAME:
Pair up; find definitions for the words written on the board and write them down. The first team that gets the most  correct wins!

Vocabulary:
 Achaeans: another name for Greeks
Rawhide: leather with hair of the cow still on it

Metaphor/Personification:  (Dalicia)
Giving human qualities to inanimate objects.
“When primal Dawn spread on the eastern sky
Her fingers of pink light.” (Does the dawn have fingers?)

Aurora: the Greek name of the goddess for Dawn

Criers: messengers who were sent by the king to call out important information to the people.

Reread the passages numbered 78 – 115
Write a brief summary of what you have read.
Use the following questions to help you understand what you have read.

1.     Why did Telemachus call the suitors together?
2.     How did Athena help him?
3.     Who was Antinous?
4.     What trickery or deceit did Antinous accuse Penelope of doing?
5.     How did the suitors find out about the trickery or deceit?
6.     What did Antinous demand that Telemachus tell his mother to do?

 Read pages 726 – 727
What are the four things Telemachus does after the suitors disperse?

Friday, December 11th:

Friday, December 11th:
For first period, Tuesday, December 15th is the final.
For third period, Wednesday, December 16th is the final.
On the final, you must turn in your reading log for THE ODYESSY. The reading log consists of a summary of what we’ve read, plus vocabulary, and questions and answers.

The final will be a short quiz over what we have read, which is Book 1 and Book 2. The final will include vocabulary, passages from the books, which you will paraphrase, and questions over the passages, which you will have to answer. The final will also include questions about the characters and the story.  The final will include the following:

Passages to summarize or paraphrase
Questions over the passages
Questions over the story
Questions over the characters
Questions over vocabulary

Your final AR test and reading logs will be accepted up to 3:06 on Wednesday, December 16th.  After Wednesday, December 16th, no late work will be accepted.

Period 1:
Silent Sustained Reading

Period 3:
Review Book 2:

What did Telemachus do after he dispersed the assembly of suitors?
How did Athena help Telemachus?
What did Telemachus beg Eurycleia not to do until some days have passed?
Friday, December 11th:
3rd Period: (Continued)

Read Book 3 and Book 4:

Book 3: The Visit to Nestor

Vocabulary:
Charioteer: a driver of a chariot.

Disembark: to get off the boat

Doom: the end, absolute destruction

Broach: to raise a sensitive topic for discussion

Gray-eyed Athena: gray eyes were thought to be a symbol of wisdom.

Interrogate: to question closely

Prudently: wisely, showing caution and good judgment.

Host: can also mean a huge multitude of people.

Dissemble: to conceal

Metaphor:
“…the storehouse of his mind”

Personification:
“Where the great Earth hides your father…”

 How is Nestor’s home different from Odysseus’s home?
Give three examples.

What does this say about Odysseus’ home?

What does Nestor notice about Telemachus?

Who is the next old soldier Telemachus goes to ask about his father?

Who is the old soldier’s wife?

What does she immediately notice about the young man that her husband does not see?

What does the old soldier remember about Odysseus on the battle fields of Troy?


PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ABOVE QUESTIONS MAY BE ON THE FINAL!













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