Monday, February 22, 2016

February 22, 2016 - February 26, 2016 Ninth Grade English; The Odyssey: The Cyclops

Monday, February 22nd:
BIC
Silent Sustained Reading
Or work on your reading log
The AR test and your AR reading log will be due on Tuesday, March 15th.
 1st Period:
Pass out The Odyssey, Book 9 Vocabulary; this will be due on Friday, February 26th. 
Kahoot.it – “The Cyclops”
Act out “The Cyclops”
Go over figurative language in “The Cyclops”

Period 3:
Silent Sustained Reading
Or work on your reading log
The AR test and your AR reading log will be due on Tuesday, March 15th.
The Odyssey, The Cyclops, Book 9 Vocabulary will be due on Tuesday, February 23rd.
Kahoot.it The Cyclops!
Divide into groups of five and act out The Cyclops. Must include the following events:

Jonathan, Mustasim, Arisbeth, Ashley, Joselyn, 
The men wander into the cave and eat the Cyclops’ cheese
The Cyclops discovers them and eats two of Odysseus’ men.
The next day, the Cylcops eats two more men, lets the sheep out, puts a huge stone in the cave’s mouth.

Arturo, Tyron, Amanda, Yubendi, Johan
Odysseus and his men cut an olive tree, hews it, sharpens it to a sharp point, and then heats it in a fire.
The Cyclops eats two more men when he returns that night
Odysseus offers the Cyclops wine, gets him drunk and tells his name is “Nobody”.
The Cyclops tells him as a “gift” he will eat Odysseus last.


Nicole, Emily, Kimberly, Yulma, Paola
When the Cyclops is drunk, Odysseus and his men stab him in his eye.
The Cyclops screams in pain. When the other Cyclops run to his cave and ask what is wrong, the Cyclops answers “Nobody did this to me!”  They shrug and tell him to pray to his father then.

Reyna, Cooper, Timerica, Jay-Nice, Lynn:
Odysseus ties three sheep together for each man, and ties one man under the middle of the three sheep. Odysseus hides under the largest of the rams and waits until morning.
The men escape the next morning under the belly of the sheep.

Isabel, Kristina, Tyler, Amanda, Jay-Nice 

The men make it to the ship and there Odysseus tells the Cyclops his real name.
The Cyclops reveals that this was prophesized years before.
The Cyclops prays to his father to curse Odysseus.

Tuesday, February 23rd: 
BIC
Silent Sustained Reading
8:20
1st Period: 
Ms. Payne will be programming students this period.

3rd Period: 
Ms. Payne will be programming students this period.

Wednesday, February 24th: 
BIC
Silent Sustained Reading + Reading Log
Please remember that your second reading log and your AR test will be due no later than Tuesday, March 15th!!!!!!!!

The reading log should include:
 a brief summary (about half a page per reading log entry)
A comment about what you have just read
A prediction about what you think is going to happen next
Or for bonus points, an observation about the characters’ motivation or a universal observation about human behavior or society
Please include the page numbers for each entry.

Kahoot.it!

Act out “The Cyclops”

Lynn, Cateryn, Amanda, Johan, Isabel – on stage
The men wander into the cave and eat the Cyclops’ cheese
The Cyclops discovers them and eats two of Odysseus’ men.
The next day, the Cyclops eats two more men, lets the sheep out, puts a huge stone in the cave’s mouth.

Yulma, Kimberly, Emily, Nicole, Ashley – outside
Odysseus and his men cut an olive tree, hew it, sharpen it to a sharp point, and then heats it in a fire.
The Cyclops eats two more men when he returns that night
Odysseus offers the Cyclops wine, gets him drunk and tells his name is “Nobody”.
The Cyclops tells him as a “gift” he will eat Odysseus last.

Arturo, Tyron, Yubendi, Joselyn, Arisbeth -  outside
When the Cyclops is drunk, Odysseus and his men stab him in his eye.
The Cyclops screams in pain. When the other Cyclops run to his cave and ask what is wrong, the Cyclops answers “Nobody did this to me!”  They shrug and tell him to pray to his father then.

Reyna, Cooper, Timerica, Jay-Nice: - lobby
Odysseus ties three sheep together for each man, and ties one man under the middle of the three sheep. Odysseus hides under the largest of the rams and waits until morning.
The men escape the next morning under the belly of the sheep.

Jonathan, Mutasim, Kristina, Paola, Tyler - lobby

The men make it to the ship and there, Odysseus tells the Cyclops his real name.
The Cyclops reveals that this was prophesized years before.
The Cyclops prays to his father to curse Odysseus.

Thursday, February 25th: 
BIC
Silent Sustained Reading 



Period 1:

Kahoot Review on The Cyclops

Period 3rd:
AR Reading Log due Tuesday, March 15th
AR Test due no later than Tuesday, March 15th

Book 9 Vocabulary is past due!!!
Act out the last scene of “The Cyclops”
Fast Kahoot over “The Cyclops”
A review quiz over Calypso, Scheria, the Cicones, the Lotus Eaters, and the Cyclops

Friday,  February 26th: 
BIC
Period 1: 
The Odyssey Quiz; Books 4 - 9
Silent Sustained Reading 
AR Reading Log 

Period 3:
The Odyssey Quiz; Books 4 - 9
Silent Sustained Reading 
AR Reading Log 











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