Kahoots – Vocabulary Workshop, Unit 4, Level C
Kahoots – The Odyssey: “I am Laertes’ Son” and “Calypso”
Went over “Applying Skills” in The Odyssey Packet,
Books 1 – 4, “Conflict”
Tuesday, February 6th:
Read “The Lotus Eaters”
Tuesday, February 6th:
Read “The Lotus Eaters”
Page 658
What happens to people who eat the lotus flower?
The people lose their will to go home. They just want to eat the lotus flower and stay on the island.
Taylor:
This is a P.S.A. – which warns people not to engage in drugs and alcohol.
Some scholars believe that the lotus flower might have been marijuana because it made the marijuana users lethargic and apathetic.
Milan
Lethargic: lazy, you just want to lay around
Adolfo and Taylor and David
Apathetic: showing little animation or emotion; indifferent
Page 660 The Cyclops
Reader:
Adolfo
Bough: tree branch
Yessenia:
Cavern is a large cave
Ewes: female sheep
Ram: a male sheep
The first thing the Cylcops does is place a huge mult-ton slab of rock in the cave’s opening. After he makes his dinner, he sees Odysseus’s men in the firelight.
Adolfo!
Explained why the Cyclops got an attitude with Odysseus.
Why did the Cyclops ask Odysseus where his ships were?
Adolfo – Because Cylcops wanted to destroy it!
And why did Odysseus lie about it?
David and Adolfo knew that the Cyclops’ intention was to destroy the ship!
Acted out the Lotus Eaters:
Milan, Adolfo, Julian, Alejandra, Julia
Wednesday, February 7th:
Worked on completing unfinished vocabulary, grammar, and literary packet assignments to help students pass.
Thursday, February 8th:
Wednesday, February 7th:
Worked on completing unfinished vocabulary, grammar, and literary packet assignments to help students pass.
Thursday, February 8th:
Line 273
Brief review:
Brief review:
What did the Cyclops ask Odysseus?
Melanie – Where did Odysseus leave his ship?
David – the Cyclops wanted to destroy his ship!
Odysseus said the ship was destroyed!
Reader:
Jasmine
Vocabulary:
Atremble – to make something tremble
Appalled – shocked and horrified
Ponderous – of great weight, very heavy
Remember, Odysseus is still in the court of Alcinous telling the events of the past ten years of his wanderings. He is now telling about his adventures on the island of the Cylcops.
(“Neither replay nor pity came from him..) to line 296 (…and wait for morning.)
What did the Cyclops do to Odysseus’ men?
“…but the Cyclops went on filling up his belly
with manflesh…”
“But in one stride he clutched at my companions and caught two….and made them his meal….”
The Cyclops ate some of Odysseus’ men alive.
Why didn’t Odysseus kill the Cyclops?
He didn’t kill the Cyclops because the door of the cave was blocked by a huge stone which only the Cyclops could move. The men would be trapped there forever and perish in a horrible death.
Perish: to die
“If we killed him
we perished there as well, for we could never
move his ponderous doorway slab aside.”
Ponderous: big and heavy and sometimes slow.
Why did the Cyclops kill Odysseus’ men?
Maybe Cyclops was hungry for man flesh and to show how vicious and mean he was.
“When the young Dawn with fingertips of rose lit up the world” is another way of saying it’s……..What?
It’s morning!!!!
Personification and imagery
1.What is the above quotation an example of? Personification? Simile? Imagery?
2. Cap a quiver describes how the Cyclops closed the door of the cave. What is the phrase? Is it a simile or a metaphor? What is it being compared to?
3. What did the Cyclops do in the morning?
Class discussion
Class discussion
Vocabulary:
Bough: a big tree branch
Ewes: female sheep
Ravage: to destroy violently
What did the Cyclops do to Odysseus’ men?
“Neither reply nor pity came from him,
But in one stride he clutched at my companions
And caught two in his hands like squirming puppies
To beat their brains out, spattering the floor.
Then he dismembered them and made his meal.”
What is the following line an example of:
“…and caught in his hands like squirming puppies
to beat their brains out, spattering the floor.”
Simile
Homer is comparing the men to squirming puppies.
When the young Dawn with fingertips of rose
Lit up the world.
personification
Vocabulary:
Dispatch: to finish, to be done with
Cap a quiver: to put a top or lid on the round container filled with arrows, which is carried on the back by archers like Katniss or Robin Hood.
Hewed: to smooth with a knife to make a piece of wood smooth and shiny.
Profusion: a great deal; in great abundance.
Ponderous: large, huge, awkward, slow
Flock: a herd of sheep or birds
Ewe: a female sheep, and it’s pronounced like “you”.
Vocabulary:
Cordial: friendly, warm, welcoming, etc.
(Cor’ djal)
Odysseus’ men took out the Cyclop’s eye by driving a spike (a six foot long section of an olive tree sharpened to a razor point) into the Cyclop’s eye.
Vocabulary:
Cap a quiver: to put a lid on the round container of arrows that is carried on the back. Quiver is the round container carried on the back of Katniss and Robin Hood.
Metaphor. Homer is comparing the stone that blocks the cave’s mouth to a cap on a quiver.
Felled: to chop down a tree
Mast: the main huge beam on a boat which stands perpendicular to the deck. Sails are suspended from the mast.
Dung: manure
Profusion: a great abundance, a huge amount
Rogue: a con man, criminal
Carrion: road kill; a dead animal
Weird: fate
Girdler: to encircle; like a belt
Wits: intelligence
Friday, February 9th:
Friday, February 9th:
Open your books to page 667
Milan:
Review:
The men were taking twine from the Cyclops’ bed to tie themselves under the middle of a trio of big sheep. Odysseus had to hold onto the biggest ram by his hands because there was no one to tie him up to a ram.
Reader:
Milan
When Dawn spread out her fingertips of rose - personification
Carrion: road kill, a dead animal
Rogue: a criminal
Fold (noun) a group of animals or the sleeping quarters of animals such as sheep or goats
Adversary: an enemy
Weird: the original meaning of the word weird is fate!
Who told the Cyclops about his fate?
David:
Telemus the Wizard foretold that the Cyclops would be blinded by a man by the name of Odysseus.
What type of man was the Cyclops expecting?
David – he was expecting a giant man.
The Cyclops was defeated not by a big man of brawn but by a small man of great intellect.
The Cyclops prayed to his father Poseidon to curse Odysseus, so that he would not get home, or that if he did reach home, he would first be faced with years of hard sailing, days of bitterness, and the loss of his companions. When Odysseus finally did reach home he would be faced with turmoil and strife at home.
