February 6, 2017 - February 10, 2017 Agenda

Monday, February 6th: 
 

Vocabulary Workshop, Unit 4 will be assigned tomorrow. Please bring your book on Tuesday, February 7^th.

The next due date for the AR test and reading log is: Friday, March 25^th!!!!!!!

The Enchantress Circe

Page 673

The Wind God

Laestrygonians

The Island of Circe

Vocabulary:

Fawning: showing excessive attention; displaying exaggerated attention or flattery

Pigsty: a pigpen

Swine: a very large pig

Please write in your reading log:

A brief summary of what we read today – the Wind God and The Hall of Circe.

Then write what lesson each story, the Wind God and The Enchantress Circe,  can give us

Tuesday, February 7th: 

Passed back tests

To improve your grade, please rewrite the question, and the correct answer on a separate sheet of paper; then staple the paper onto your test and turn in for a higher grade!  This will be due on Thursday, February 9^th.

Assigned Unit 4 Vocabulary – due Tuesday, February 14^th!

Read “The Odyssey, pages 675 – 676

Discussion of Hades, Demeter, Persephone, and Tereisias.

 Wednesday, February 8th: 
 

Either read your new AR book, which is due on Friday, March 25^th or work on your vocabulary, unit 4, which is due on Tuesday, February 14^th.

Vocabulary Unit 4, pages 51 - 57

Definitions (page 51 – 53)

Write the word, the part of speech, the definitions, and the brief sentence underneath:

1.     Annul (verb) to reduce to nothing; to make ineffective or inoperative; to declare legally invalid or void. The state legislators voted by an overwhelming majority to annul  the out-of-date law.

Carolina and Jennifer drew a time-line of the Odyssey up to the Isle of the Enchantress Circe,

Read The Odyssey, from pages 676 to 677.

Read from lines 624 – 634 and then write down what you think Teriesias is saying.

Cattle: a herd of cows, plural for cows.

What did Teriesias predict:

1.     Poseidon will pay him back for blinding his son.

2.     The crew will land on the island of Helios, which is owned by Helios, the sun god, who has cattle and sheep on his island. The crew will be starving and will eat Helios’ cattle and sheep, which will gravely anger him. Helios will have Zeus destroy Odysseus’ ship, and the only survivor will be Odysseus.

3.     Odysseus will return to Ithaca to find his home overrun with rude and insolent men who are “eating his family out of house and home”. The men are drinking his wife’s wine and eating her food, are flirting and harassing the maids, and trying to force Penelope into choosing one of those dirty bums to marry her.

Thursday, February 9th: 

 

Your next AR reading log and AR test will be due by Friday, March 25^th.

Warm-ups:

Please write a sentence for each of the following words from Vocabulary Unit 4

1.     Annul: (verb = action or state of being) to reduce to nothing; to make ineffective or inoperable; to declare legally invalid or void.

Sentence: After a brief unhappy honeymoon, the couple decided to annul their marriage.

Write your own sentence: ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­________________________________________________________

2.     Blasé: (adjective = to describe something or someone) indifferent, bored as a result of having enjoyed many pleasures, apathetic.

Sentence: Having rich parents and being spoiled by them, Elizabeth was very blasé when her mother told her they were going to Disneyland for the week.

Write your own sentence:________________________________________________________

Read The Odyssey, page 678 - 679

The Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis

Reading log (for tomorrow)

       

Back to the Island of Circe

Odysseus returns to the island of Circe after visiting the Land of the Dead

Circe gives further instructions to Odysseus on how to avoid the Sirens, get past Scylla and to avoid being sucked down by the whirlpool Charybdis.

Circe warns Odysseus about the Isle of Sirens which is where the Sirens live, hideous half-bird, half-women creatures who sing men to their deaths. Men who hear the beautiful singing of these wretched creatures will leap overboard to swim to the island to be closer to the music, but there they will die. The island is littered with the dried bones of those men who couldn’t resist the hideous creatures’ music.

Circe tells Odysseus that he should hear this music – he is after all Odysseus! - but that he should put beeswax in the ears of his men so they cannot hear. (Being ordinary men they would not be able to resist the Sirens’ music.) He should instruct the men to tie him firmly (to lash him) to the mast of the boat and if, while listening to the Sirens’ music, he is so overwhelmed by their seductive powers that he begs the men to untie him, then his men must tie him even more firmly to the mast.

Circe then warns him about the even more hideous Scylla. She has twelve legs, unjointed tentacles like an octopus. Scylla has serpent necks with six heads on each swaying neck. Each head has a mouth of triple serried teeth (like a knife).

Vocabulary:

Den: a cave where an animal or monster sleeps.

Abominably: So horrible as to be deserving of hatred.

Gullet: throat and esophagus (the tube that runs from the throat to the stomach).

From each ship she takes one man for each gullet.

Vocabulary:

Promontory: a high cliff overlooking a body of water.

Circe tells him that on the other side of the strait (narrow body of water between two land masses) lies Charybdis (Ka rib dis) which is a huge whirlpool that sucks down all the water three times a day and then vomits it back up (spews) like a geyser. Avoid it and stick as close as you can, Cire warns him, to the opposite side of the strait (close to Scylla) and away from Charybdis. Better you lose a few men than the entire ship.

Circe then warns him about the Island of Thrinakia, the Island of Helios, the sun god who sees all and hears all as he, in his chariot, drives his thundering steeds across the sky each day. Nothing escapes him. He keeps on his island cattle and sheep which he loves very much. These beeves and kine have never been born nor never die. Do not eat them, Circe warns Odysseus, for if you do you will meet certain death at the hands of the angry gods.

Friday, February 10th: 
Warm-up Activity: Read the definitions and the sentences using the two vocabulary words from Unit 4. Then, write your own two original sentences using the same vocabulary words.

Vocabulary Unit 4:

Bolster: (verb = action or state of being) to give a boost to

Diana’s mom always tells her daughter how smart she is to bolster her self-confidence.

Deplore: (verb = action or state of being) to feel or express regret or disapproval.

Many parents deplore what they see as an excessive use of cellphones by their children.

Many parents deplore the fashion of “sagging”.

 Open your literature book to The Odyssey, page 679, line 695 and read.

We read from page 679 to page 683 and line 695 to line 828

Stopped at “…So these were borne aloft in spasms toward the cliff.”