BIC
1st:
Go to room 429 for CAASPP Testing
Passed out “Adverbial Clause” handout (copied from grammar
book, HOLT HANDBOOK; pages 106 – 106; exercise 4; 1 – 10; due Wednesday, March 2nd.
3rd Period:
Go to room 429 for CAASPP Testing
Passed out “Adverbial Clause” handout (copied from grammar
book, HOLT HANDBOOK; pages 106 – 106; exercise 4; 1 – 10; due Wednesday, March 2nd.
Tuesday, March 1st:
Shortened Day today!
Tuesday, March 1st:
Shortened Day today!
BIC
1st Period:
Take the CAASPP test in #429
3rd Period:
Finish the CAASPP test
Pass out the Adverbial Clause handout to those who have
finished.
Wednesday, March 2nd:
Open your book to page 911 The Odyssey
Wednesday, March 2nd:
BIC
Period 1:
In room 429 to finish taking the CAASPP test.
3rd Period:
Collected the homework from Monday: Holt Handbook; pages 104
– 106; exercise 6: Identifying and Classifying Adverbial Phrases.
Kahoot: Identifying and Classfying Adverbial Phrases
(Mahatma Gandhi)
Open your book to page 911 The Odyssey
Read aloud pages 911 – 912
Read again silently to yourself and then write down any
words you didn’t understand and a brief summary of what you have read.
Questions:
Where is Odysseus now in real time?
Jonathan: Odysseus is still in Alcinous’ court telling his
story of where he has been for the past ten years.
This device is called flashback.
Flashback: when the story goes back in time and tells of an
event, which occurred before.
Vocabulary:
Glade: a clearing in the woods
Tidbits: delicious bits of food
Fawned: excessively praise or hang on someone to make that
person like you.
Showing excessive praise or subservience to another.
Humbly: being humble, having little or no ego or arrogance
Would you normally think of lions and tigers as being humble
and fawning?
Beguiling: bewitching, charming in a way that will put a
spell on another, and subject to one’s will.
Thursday, March 3rd:
Minimum Day today!
Thursday, March 3rd:
Minimum Day today!
1st
Period:
Grammar handout:
HOLT HANDBOOK; pages 104 – 106; exercise 4; 1 – 10
Underline the adverbial clauses; then write what the clause
tells – does it tell us when something
was done, how something was done, why something was done, to what extent something was done, or under what condition something was done.
If the adverbial clause begins with the following
subordinating conjunctions:
After = When
As = Under what condition
Because = Why
Before = When
If = Under what condition
Since = Why
So = Why
Than = To what extent
Where = Where
Wherever = Where
Kahoot.it
Read The Odyssey; pages 911 – 913
3rd Period:
Went over the grammar work – again!
Grammar handout:
HOLT HANDBOOK; pages 104 – 106; exercise 4; 1 – 10
Underline the entire adverbial
clauses; then write what the clause tells – does it tell us when something was done, how something was done, why something was done, to what extent something was done, or under what condition something was done.
If the adverbial clause begins with the following
subordinating conjunctions, then the adverbial clause is telling us:
After = When
As = Under what condition
Because = Why
Before = When
If = Under what condition
Since = Why
So = Why
Than = To what extent
Where = Where
Wherever = Where
After you underline the adverbial clause, then write after
the sentence what the adverbial clause tells us, using the following words: when, where, why, how, to what extent
(magnitude), under what condition.
Friday, March 4th:
BIC
Period 1:
Friday, March 4th:
BIC
Period 1:
Silent Sustained Reading
Reading Log
Remember: the last day to turn in your AR test and your AR
reading log is Tuesday, March 15th.
Read:
Elements of Literature
The Odyssey
The Island of Aeolia –
the land of the Wind God
Laestrygonians – giant
cannibals
“Circe the Witch”
Page 911 – 913
Read again silently to yourself and then write down any
words you didn’t understand and a brief summary of what you have read.
Vocabulary:
Glade: a clearing in the woods
Tidbits: delicious bits of food
Fawned: excessively praise or hang on someone to make that
person like you.
Showing excessive praise or subservience to another.
Humbly: being humble, having little or no ego or arrogance
Would you normally think of lions and tigers as being humble
and fawning?
Beguiling: bewitching, charming in a way that will put a
spell on another, and subject another to one’s will.
Snare: a trap
Pigsty: where pigs live; it is a pig pen.
Swinish: from the word swine which is a pig
Where is Odysseus now in real time?
Odysseus is still in Alcinous’ court telling his story of
where he has been for the past ten years.
This device is called flashback.
Flashback: when the story goes back in time and tells of an
event, which occurred before.
Which sailor did not partake of Circe’s food and drink?
Why didn’t he eat Circe’s food?
What did this sailor do instead?
What happened to the men who ate Circe’s food?
What god gave information to Odysseus?
What did the god give Odysseus as protection against Circe.
Watch the movie
Period 3:
Questions to think about and answer as you watch The Odyssey.
Period 3:
Questions to think about and answer as you watch The Odyssey.
Aeolus is the god of what force of nature?
What favor did Aeolus do for Odysseus?
What did Odysseus do with this favor?
What do the events that follow show about human nature?
What should both Odysseus and the men have done to prevent
this event?
Which sailor did not partake of Circe’s food and drink?
Why didn’t he eat Circe’s food?
What did this sailor do instead?
What happened to the men who ate Circe’s food?
What god gave information to Odysseus?
What did the god give Odysseus as protection against Circe.
How did Odysseus retrieve his men from Circe?
How long did the men stay in Circe’s court?
What evidence does Circe give to prove to Odysseus the
length of time he has stayed?
Why did Odysseus and his men stay so long at Circe’s court?
What lesson can be derived from this particular adventure of
Odysseus?
Watch the movie
