Tuesday, March 29th:
BIC
1st Period:
Discussion of the upcoming events for this class:
Finish The Odyssey this week.
Kahoot.it (which will be the review
for the test) over the last chapters of The
Odyssey, Odysseus’ return to Ithaca and the slaying of the suitors.
Test over the last chapters of The Odyssey
A short research paper over a Greek
god
Start reading Romeo and Juliet
Begin working on the third and
final AR book, reading log, and AR test due no
later than Friday, May 6th.
For tomorrow: please bring the orange vocabulary book, Vocabulary Workshop: Level C. Unit two will be assigned.
Wednesday, March 30th:
Wednesday, March 30th:
1st
Period:
BIC
Not here today due
power outage and street closure
3rd
Period:
Watch the ending of The
Odyssey
The Odyssey
Page 928
Vocabulary:
Laden: burdened with objects; holding a great quantity,
carrying
Comrades: Companions, friends,
Disguise: to cover up;
Ambush: to attack from a hiding place
Swineherd: a person who takes care of the swine or pigs
Fawn: to show excessive affection toward someone
Exiled: to be punished by being kicked out of one’s homeland
Pastures: meadows; a large area of grass used for grazing by
animals
Grazing: eating grass, particularly by an animal such as a
cow or horse
Candor: honesty
When Jill asked her boyfriend if he loved her, he answered
her with candor and said, “No”.
Paola read page 928
Thursday, March 31st:
Thursday, March 31st:
BIC
Friday, April 1st:
New Rules:
If you leave trash and food in the class, you will be
assigned detention to clean 503 during nutrition, lunch, or after school for
fifteen minutes.
If you fail to show up, then your parents will be called for
a parent-teacher conference.
If it continues you will receive a “U” for cooperation and
work habits.
Kahoot.it Vocabulary
Workshop: Level C; Unit 2
Read pages 928 – 931
Vocabulary:
Laden: burdened with objects; holding a great quantity,
carrying
Comrades: Companions, friends, side kick
Disguise: to cover up; to hide your identity
Ambush: to attack from a hiding place
Swineherd: a person who takes care of the swine or pigs
Fawn: to show excessive affection toward someone
Exiled: to be punished by being kicked out of one’s homeland
Pastures: meadows; a large area of grass used for grazing by
animals
Grazing: eating grass, particularly by an animal such as a
cow or horse
Candor: honesty
When Jill asked her boyfriend if he loved her, he answered
her with candor and said, “No”.
Lithe: limber; having the flexibility and freedom of
movement of youth.
Athena transformed Odysseus into a handsome, lithe, and
younger looking man.
Oblation: a sacrifice of a cow or a pig and given as an
offering to the gods.
Telemachus is so frightened by the sudden changes in
Odysseus that he thinks he is a god and offer oblations to him.
Incredulity: disbelief
Telemachus is in a state of incredulity and does not believe
that Odysseus is his father.
Thunderstruck: to be in a state of emotional shock as if
struck by lightning.
Talons: sharp claws
Read The Odyssey
Page 931, read
between lines 1030 and 1035
How are the two men
crying?
What animal are the
two men being compared to?
What are the farmers
doing to the falcons?
Why do the falcons
cry?
What are nestlings?
This is called a
“Homeric Simile”, which is an extended comparison of two unlike things.
Period 3:
New Rules:
If you leave trash and food in the class, you will be
assigned detention to clean 503 during nutrition, lunch, or after school for
fifteen minutes.
If you fail to show up, then your parents will be called for
a parent-teacher conference.
If it continues you will receive a “U” for cooperation and
work habits.
Vocabulary Unit 2 is assigned and will be due on Tuesday,
April 5th.
Read pages 930 – 931
Vocabulary:
Laden: burdened with objects; holding a great quantity,
carrying
Comrades: Companions, friends, side kick
Disguise: to cover up; to hide your identity
Ambush: to attack from a hiding place
Swineherd: a person who takes care of the swine or pigs
Fawn: to show excessive affection toward someone
Exiled: to be punished by being kicked out of one’s homeland
Pastures: meadows; a large area of grass used for grazing by
animals
Grazing: eating grass, particularly by an animal such as a
cow or horse
Candor: honesty
When Jill asked her boyfriend if he loved her, he answered
her with candor and said, “No”.
Lithe: limber; having the flexibility and freedom of
movement of youth.
Athena transformed Odysseus into a handsome, lithe, and
younger looking man.
Oblation: a sacrifice of a cow or a pig and given as an
offering to the gods.
Telemachus is so frightened by the sudden changes in
Odysseus that he thinks he is a god and offer oblations to him.
Incredulity: disbelief
Telemachus is in a state of incredulity and does not believe
that Odysseus is his father.
Thunderstruck: to be in a state of emotional shock as if
struck by lightning.
Talons: sharp claws
Read The Odyssey
Page 931, read
between lines 1030 and 1035
Why are the two men
crying?
What animal are the
two men being compared to?
What are the farmers
doing to the falcons?
Why do the falcons
cry?
What are nestlings?
This is called a
“Homeric Simile”, which is an extended comparison of two unlike things.
The Beggar and the
Faithful Dog
Pages 932 and 933
Class
Notes on THE BEGGAR and ARGOS, THE DOG
Why
would Homer include the story of Argos in The Odyssey?
The
dog meant something in the past of Odysseus.
Odysseus’s
state is being compared to a dog.
The
dog's condition is a symbol of the decay of Ithaca during Odysseus’ absence.
What
does this reveal about Odysseus?
He
is a softy. He is kind and compassionate but he is capable of controlling his
feelings.
Is
there any irony?
The
dog is the only creature who recognized Odysseus.
We
find the dog on a garbage heap waiting to die.
The
dog is a symbol of what the suitors want to do with Odysseus and Telemachus.
Reread
Eumaeus’ description of the dog. This is ironic because Eumaeus says that the
owner of the dog is dead, not realizing that Odysseus, the owner, is standing
there listening to him.
Personification:
Giving human characteristics to an inanimate object.
Example:
Misery
has him (Argos) in its leash.
Eumaeus’
whole passage is an analogy between the state of Ithaca and the sad state of
Argos, the dog.
Create
your own personification!
Love
held me in his embrace!
The
trees danced in the wind.
The
machine gun barked in reply.
The
Ferrari purred under the gloved hand of its owner.
What
do you think about Eumaeus’ statement about servants?
Do
you think that slavery demeans humans and the very act of enslavement robs
people of their humanity and deprives them of the highest qualities which
distinguish us as humans?
Just
because one is enslaved does not mean that one is not capable of the highest
intellectual achievement.
The
quality of a society can be seen by how it treats its weakest, most vulnerable
members – children, babies, the old, the poor and the animals.
Read
up to page 938, “The Test of the Great Bow”
Shortened day
Each period is twenty minutes
BIC
1st Period:
Read “Argos and the Old Beggar”
Read up to page 932; line 1057
Vocabulary:
Dung pile: manure from cattle, goats, etc. used to fertilize
the fields
Muzzle: the snout or face of a dog
3rd Period:
Kahoot: The Beggar and the Faithful Dog
