Test corrections over The Odyssey, Books 1 – 9:
1.
Ten years
2.
Telemachus
3.
Athena
4.
Crying in loneliness for his wife and child
5.
Quickly go home to his family
6.
Her island will be plunged to the bottom of the
sea
7.
He realizes that Penelope is only a mortal and
cannot compete with a goddess
8.
Poseidon stirs a storm which blows the ship off
course
9.
Nausicaa takes Odysseus to her father’s court
where he is treated with hospitality
10.
The ties between guests and host are sacred
11.
In media res – in the middle of the action
12.
Tells where he has been for the past ten years
13.
The Isle of the Cicones
14.
To
board the ship before fresh troops arrive to avenge their Cicone kinsmen.
15.
Partaking of the lotus plants makes one forget
one’s ambition
16.
Poseidon
17.
The ties between the host and guests
18.
Nobhody
19.
True – Polyphemus is a particularly vile
creature because he is a cannibal
20.
Brute force and narrow mindedness
21.
Intelligence and cunning
22.
True – Odysseus and his men got Polyphemus drunk
and blinded him while he was sleeping it off
23.
True – The men escaped by hiding under the rams’
bellies
24.
His wife will be married to another man – that
part of the curse didn’t happen.
25.
Odysseus became prideful and boastful and told
the Cyclops his real name.
Rewrite
the questions you got wrong on a separate sheet of paper and write out the
correct answers. Staple your corrections onto the original test and turn
in. This will raise your grade one
letter grade. This will be due on
Wednesday, February 28th.
You
can do either test corrections or your Unit Five Vocabulary assignment #1 – 10,
which is due tomorrow.
Unit
5 Vocabulary
Aghast,
ample, apparition, assert, cower, disdain, epitaph, ethical, facetious,
inaudible,
Next
week, the following words will be due:
indiscriminate,
intrigue, jurisdiction, plausible, plebeian, prodigal, proximity, pulverize,
sequel, volatile
Tuesday, February 27th:
Tuesday, February 27th:
English
Vocabulary Warm-ups:
Book 9
Yessenia:
Walking across a tightrope with your eyes
closed is a formidable challenge.
Tymiah:
Tommy was formidable when his teacher
called home for his behavior.
The formidable teacher called home to speak
to Tommy’s parents for his behavior.
Melanie:
The formidable lion caused his prey to bolt
away at an amazing speed.
Your vocabulary unit 5 #1 – 10 is due
tonight on schoology!
The corrections for your Odyssey test will
be due tomorrow.
The Odyssey
“The Land of the Dead” page 675
Vocabulary:
Assuage: to appease, to do something to
make someone happy again, to make someone not be mad at you.
Ewe: female sheep
Woe: sadness, sorrow, pain, unhappiness,
misfortune
Anguish:
David
Severe mental or physical pain and
suffering
Read the last four lines on pages 675 and
write down your impression of what the dead looked like.
Yessenia:
Teresias told Odysseus his future. Anguish
lies ahead.
His men will die by eating the sheep and
the cattle of Helios. And Odysseus will wander lost for many years before
returning to his home to find it in unrest, filled with insolent men courting his wife and
eating his food and drinking his wine.
After Odysseus kills the insolent suitors, he is then to make
sacrifices to Poseidon for sparing his life. If he does this, then he will die
a peaceful death surrounded by his loving family.
Wednesday, February 28th:
Wednesday, February 28th:
Warm-up:
Book 9
The Odyssey
Tymiah:
Guile:
Craftiness, trickery when dealing with others.
Guile is a noun. You cannot put it before another noun. You
cannot use it as a verb.
David:
The students tried to prank the teacher through the use of
guile.
Melanie:
The chipmunk used guile to convince his opponent that the
acorn was someplace else.
Alejandra:
I tried to use guile to convince my mom that there was
traffic as an excuse for being late.
Milan:
It took a lot of guile and patience to convince my mom that
I was sleeping over at a friend’s house rather than going to a party.
Some questions from yesterday’s reading:
1. Where did Odysseus go to find out his future?
Yessenia, Hilaryd, and Julia answered this.
2. Who told Odysseus his future? Tell us what you know about this man?
David and Taylor answered this.
Lisbeth answered.
Julia answered.
3. What did this man tell Odysseus about the future of his
men?
Taylor and David answer
4. What did the man tell Odysseus about what he would find
when he returned home? Yessenia and Hilaryd answered
5. What must Odysseus do when he returns home?
Hilaryd answered
6. Finally, what ironic action Odysseus must do once he
reclaims his home?
Lisbeth L. says that Odysseus must make a sacrifice to his
old nemesis (enemy) Poseidon!
What is irony!
Lisbeth A. – irony means something that is unexpected.
David – Something ironic would be Poseidon drowning. One
wouldn’t expect that from the god of the ocean.
Page 678
Odysseus returns to the Isle of Circe
David asks why does Odysseus returns to the Isle of Circe?
Circe is a witch who can also see into future and can give
advice to Odysseus on how to get home!!!!
Read pages 678 – 679
Go over tomorrow!
Thursday, March 1st:
Thursday, March 1st:
Please get out your Book 9 The Odyssey Vocabulary
Now write a new original for word #3 – Mustered
The word mustered is a verb or an adjective but not a noun.
It’s not the mustard that you put on your hot dog!
Milan:
I could not muster enough strength to lift the last box.
Yessenia:
To gather up, to assemble, to marshal your strength or your
resources.
Julian:
The Indian mustered his resources to build his house.
Yessenia:
Tomorrow, the teachers will muster their resources for their
monthly meeting.
Cierra:
My family mustered the far-flung members of the Maultsby
tribe together for the reunion.
Read page 680 – The Sirens, Charybdis, and Scylla!
Alejandra read page 680
Adolfo read from page 681 to 683
Stopped at page 683; line 815
Shun – (verb) to push away, to reject, to avoid
Ardor: passion, enthusiasm
Dwindled: to grow smaller and eventually disappear
Tumult: commotion, uproar, confusion
Travail: hard, exhausting work or effort, tiring labor.
1.
What did Odysseus do to keep the men from
jumping overboard when their boat sailed past the Sirens?
Tomorrow, review and continue reading!
Friday, March 2nd:
9th Grade
English Standards: Friday, March 2nd:
Vocabulary Development:
Understanding new words through context
Reading:
R1. (1)Citing strong and thorough textual evidence to
support what the text explicitly says.
Targeted Objectives:
Developing vocabulary through context cues
Increase reading comprehension
Agenda:
Vocabulary Warm-up
The Odyssey
Read, Discuss, Share, Note Taking
Reflection/Formative
Assessment/Homework:
Answer questions from yesterday’s reading
Homework: Begin working on Unit 5 Vocabulary, #11 – 20
Bring your vocabulary book on Monday, March 5th!
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Answer questions from yesterday’s reading
Homework: Begin working on Unit 5 Vocabulary, #11 – 20
Bring your vocabulary book on Monday, March 5th!
The Odyssey Vocabulary:
To Ravage (verb) To ruin, to destroy, to devastate
Nadiya: My mother ravaged my clothes without my permission.
The hurricane ravaged the small beach town.
Lizbeth A., Salamata
Two days ago, Mr. Allen ravaged my day.
Lizbeth L.,
The King’s cousin took over the kingdom after the king’s
death and ravaged it.
The lion killed the antelope and in its hunger ravaged the
carcass.
The Odyssey, page 680
What did Circe tell Odysseus about the fate of his men?
Julia – Circe said that his men will die by eating the
cattle and the sheep of the Sun God, Helios.
What is weird about the sheep and the cattle
Taylor –
Samantha – They never die.
Hilaryd – And the sheep and the cattle are never born.
Odysseus decided not to tell the men that they were all
going to die and that he was going to be the only one to survive. Do you think
that was a wise moral decision? Why or why not?
Questions:
1.
What did the men have to do to Odysseus so that
he could hear the voices of the sirens?
2.
What did Odysseus have to do to the men so that
they would not jump overboard to hear the sirens’ song?
3.
What happened immediately after Odysseus and his
men sailed past the Sirens’ island?
4.
What was the men’s reaction to the tumult?
5.
What did Odysseus tell the men to encourage
them? (top of page 682)
6.
What instructions from Circe slipped Odysseus’
mind regarding sailing past the next danger?
7.
What was the danger after the Sirens’?
8.
What does “travail “ mean?
9.
Describe the creature on the starboard. What is
her name? Do the men survive her?
10. Describe
the next creature. What is her name? Do all the men survive? If not, how many
men die and how?
