Monday, January 29th:
Book 3: The Visit to Nestor
Chaotic: out of control, unorganized,
Blue-maned: epithet describing Poseidon
Mane is the hair that grows on the neck of a horse
Blue is the color of the ocean
Vocabulary:
To furl: to roll up as in a flag or a sail
Disembark: to get off a boat
Embark: to board a boat, or to begin an adventure
Dis is a prefix which means to undo or not
Congregation: a large group of people who assemble
To congregate: to come together, to assemble
Salamata gets a point
To broach: to puncture or to open
Storehouse is where grains and harvest are stored
To broach the store house of his mind is a metaphor!
Interrogate: to investigate for clues by questioning
Pylos is the name of the island that Nestor lives on.
Nestor feeds Telemachus and his men first and then asks who they are. This shows respect! The ties between guests and host are sacred!
Prudently: adverb describing something as careful and showing restraint and good judgment.
Points: Taylor, Adolfo, Yessenia, Lizbeth
Reader:
Adolfo – Book 3, “The Visit to Nestor on the Isle of Pylos”
Salamata – Book 4, “The Visit to Menelaus and Helen”
Vocabulary:
Luminous: shining as if lighted from inside, glowing
Wanton: immoral or naughty person
Menelaus does not realize he is talking to Odysseus’ son until Telemachus breaks down in tears over stories Menelaus is telling about his father.
As soon as Helen walks into the room, she recognizes Telemachus as being Odysseus’s son for the resemblance is sto strong.
Menelaus and Helen tell Telemachus that they heard Odysseus is alive and living on a island with Calypso, a nymph.
Nestor: a charioteer during the Trojan War
Telemachus first goes to Nestor’s island to look for his father
Tuesday, January 30th:
Tuesday, January 30th:
Assigned Unit 4, #11 – 20
1. Peruse
Part of Speech: Verb
Definition: to read closely, to look at closely
Synonyms: Pore over, scrutinize, investigate
Antonyms: skim, to glance at
Original sentence:
She perused the contract before she signed it.
I always peruse my notes before tests.
Sentence from a literary source:
He spent countless hours in the library perusing art books and catalogs.
"She spent hours perusing worthless information." Maze Runner, Book 4
1. Peruse
Part of Speech: Verb
Definition: to read closely, to look at closely
Synonyms: Pore over, scrutinize, investigate
Antonyms: skim, to glance at
Original sentence:
She perused the contract before she signed it.
I always peruse my notes before tests.
Sentence from a literary source:
He spent countless hours in the library perusing art books and catalogs.
"She spent hours perusing worthless information." Maze Runner, Book 4
Will be due on Monday, February 5
Worked on #11 together
Read The Odyssey, pages 651 – 653
Read lines from 49 – 65 and draw a picture of Calypso’s cave.
Who was Hermes?
Where was he going?
What message was he delivering?
Why?
Why did Calypso agree to Zeus' demand?
Who interceded for Odysseus?
Why does Athena love Odysseus so much?
Wednesday, January 31st:
Calypso's Island
Who was Hermes?
Where was he going?
What message was he delivering?
Why?
Why did Calypso agree to Zeus' demand?
Who interceded for Odysseus?
Why does Athena love Odysseus so much?
Wednesday, January 31st:
Calypso's Island
We first meet Odysseus in Book 4 where he is sitting on the shore of the lovely Calypso's island weeping with longing for his wife and son whom he has not seen in twenty years. It seems that Odysseus has grown tired of the beautiful goddess and wishes to go home to Penelope. Athena, the goddess of Wisdom, his patroness, takes pity on Odysseus and goes to Zeus to beg for his safe return to Ithaca. Zeus sends Hermes, the messenger of the gods, to give the seductive Calypso an offer she cannot refuse - either give up Odysseus and allow him to go home to his beloved Penelope - or Zeus will send her island plummeting to the bottom of the ocean. Calypso reluctantly agrees, but before allowing him to leave, Calypso offers Odysseus a romantic little dinner for two and over candlelight she asks him the age-old questions, "What does she have that I don't have?" Odysseus, the wiliest of all the Greeks - which is why he is the favorite of Athena, the goddess of Wisdom - casts his far ranging mind for an answer and comes up with this answer - although Penelope, being a mere mortal, cannot compare to the beauty of a goddess, he misses his quiet wife and wishes to grow old with her. Calypso reluctantly gives him permission to build a small boat to set sail for home, and bids him adieu.
But Poseidon, the god of the sea, still has not forgiven Odysseus for blinding his son, Polyphemus the Cyclops, and once again sends storms and winds to keep him at sea for weeks. Finally, Odysseus is shipwrecked on an island and exhausted from his weeks of battling sea storms, falls into a deep sleep. Meanwhile, Athena is up and about, setting the stage for his rescue.
I am Laertes' Son.
Princess Nausicaa takes him to the palace where her parents greet this striking stranger (whom Athena has made appear taller, more massive, with red gold crisping hair like hyacinth) with great politeness. Like all good Greeks who respect the laws of their gods and know that the ties between guests and hosts are sacred, the King and Queen offer the stranger wine and food. After he has eaten his fill, the court minstrel asks him what topic of song he would like the minstrel to sing. The stranger requests a song about the exploits of the Greek hero Odysseus at Troy, and his endless wandering, and his men lost at sea. As the minstrel begins to sing tears begin to fall from the stranger's eyes. The King can no longer hide his curiosity and asks, "Who are you?" The stranger's words, "I am Laertes' son, Odysseus, I mean..." are met with shock and amazement. Here is the great Greek warrior long thought dead, found alive at last sit ting in our palace!
Odysseus begins recounting his ceaseless attempts to return home after the fall of Troy twenty years ago.
The story is told in "Medea Res" which means in the "middle of". Notice that the book picks up ten years after the fall of Troy and after the occurrence of most of the events. Odysseus tells the story to the Court of Alcinous in flash back format. The stories of the Island of the Cicones, the Land of the Lotus Eaters, The Bag of Winds, the Island of Polyphemus the Cyclops, Circe the Witch, the Land of the Dead, back to the Island of Circe the Witch, the Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis and Thrinakia, the Island of Helios, the Sun God, all are recounted by Odysseus to the Court of Alcinous, and we the audience experience these stories in flashback. The real time occurrences are The Island of Calypso, The Court of Alcinous and his return to Ithaca where he struggles to regain his home.
Watched the movie The Odyssey – Circe the Witch up to the sailing to the Land of the Dead.
Thursday, February 1st:
Developing Vocabulary:
Thursday, February 1st:
Developing Vocabulary:
Lavished: (verb) to give generously
She rented a lavish salon for her “sweet sixteenth” party.
Insolent: (adjective) to be deliberately rude or disrespectful, particularly to someone of higher status.
The waiter was insolent to us when he refused to bring us water.
Cierra:
The waiter was insolent to us when he refused to take our order.
Yessenia:
The insolent cashier insulted me.
Taylor:
The insolent child refused to play with the less fortunate children
Julia:
There are many insolent people in the world.
Lucid: (adjective) Clear and easy to understand
Lucid can apply to water or liquid.
Cierra dove into a lucid pool of water.
Ms. Bridges is really lucid when she says, “Edgar Allen Poe!”
The great Dutch artist Vermeer is well known for his use of lucid light in his paintings.
Lucid can be applied to people as in being in a state of consciousness.
At first the police thought the man was drunk, but when he regained consciousness and was lucid, they realized he had been in a diabetic coma.
People who have alzheimer’s are frequently not lucid.
Taylor, Cierra, Milan, Yessenia - sentences
Broach: to make a hole in; to tap, to introduce
Cierra: The handyman used a nail to broach a hole in the wall.
Taylor: In order to fix the plumbing the plumber had to broach a hole in the bathroom.
He is timid to broach the subject of marriage with her.
Conflict
Readers: Nadiya
Internal conflict and external conflict
Lizbeth L. and Yessenia
Internal conflict is within your self or within the individual.
External conflict can be a physical conflict
Nadiya and Lizbeth A.
A character’s conflict with an outside force.
Person versus person – two people in conflict with each other
Person versus society - a person or persons fighting against society’s rules.
The fight for civil rights during the fifties and the sixties would be an example of persons fighting against society for basic rights. This would be person versus persons or society. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks were persons fighting against society.
Person versus nature – example: a person in a boat stranded in the middle of the ocean fighting for survival.
Person versus the supernatural (god) – Odysseus struggling with Poseidon.
Person versus machine – an astronaut stranded in a spaceship controlled by a computer that wants to kill him.
1. The men on Odysseus’ ship disobeyed the laws of the gods by eating Helios’ sheep and cattle and as a result, they were punished by death.
Friday, February 2nd:
Friday, February 2nd:
Vocabulary:
Prudently: (adverb) carefully, cautiously, with good judgment.
Cierra:
My mother told me to spend your money prudently.
An adverb describes a verb.
To Ponder: (verb) to think over, to weigh mentally, to consider carefully.
Tymiah: My little sister always ponders about her grades.
Cierra: I ponder on whether I am going to wash the dishes today.
Taylor: The teacher pondered on whether to give a project or a test for the final.
Contending: (Noun) fighting, competing, struggling, arguing
Milan –
Cierra: Me and my sister stopped contending over the remote when our mother came home.
Salamata: I contended that my little sister took my clothes.
Taylor: My mother accused me of eating the last bit of ice cream, but I contended that I didn’t.
Cierra:
Din: (noun) a loud continuous noise; a clamor; a jumble of loud continuous sounds that unpleasant.
The din of the fire alarm was deafening.
Taylor: The din of my cousin playing the game caused my auntie to turn the game off.
Conflict:
Person versus person:
Who is speaking? The suitors
Who are they speaking to? Telemachus
What are they telling him to do?
They are telling Telemachus to force his mother into choosing one of them to marry.
Pages 656
“I am Laertes’ Son!”
Formidable: strong, awe-inspiring excellence, strikingly impressive
Mutinous: (adjective) rebellious, failing or refusing to follow orders from a superior officer.
Because the men did not follow Odysseus’ orders, the men were attacked by the surviving Ciccones and they had to fight for their lives to get off the island.
