March 28, 2016 - April 1, 2016 Weekly Agenda for 9th Grade English; The Odyssey: Reunion of Father and Son, The Beggar and the Faithful Dog

Tuesday, March 29^th:

BIC

1^st 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 6^th.

For tomorrow: please bring the orange vocabulary book, Vocabulary Workshop: Level C.  Unit two will be assigned.

Wednesday, March 30th: 

1^st Period:

BIC

Not here today due power outage and street closure

3^rd 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: 

BIC

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 5^th.

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”

 Friday, April 1^st:

Shortened day

Each period is twenty minutes

BIC

1^st 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

3^rd Period:

Kahoot: The Beggar and the Faithful Dog

March 14, 2016 - March 18, 2016 Weekly Agenda for 9th Grade English; The Odyssey: Scylla, Charybdis, Helios' Island

Monday, March 14^th:

BIC

1^ST Period:

Tomorrow, March 15^th is the last day to turn in your AR book test and AR reading logs.

Read The Odyssey, pages 920 – 924

“Scylla”, “Charybdis”, “The Cattle of the Sun God”

Reading logs

Page 920, “The Sirens” Line 763 “But scarcely had that island faded in blue air….”

Vocabulary:

Tumult: confusion, chaos, uproar

Bow: the front of the boat

Stern: the back of the boat

Penned: to be put in a pen or a small enclosure

Peril: danger

Wit: intelligence or cleverness

Founder: to sink or run aground in a boat. A boat runs aground when its bottom hits sand or the ground.

Tiller: the sailor that controls the rudder  to guide the boat.

Rudders: the implement at the back of the boat that guides the direction of the boat.

Combers: big waves

Smothers: commotion,

Bidding: command, directives, orders

Cuirass: chest armor

Travail: hard, exhausting labor

Dire: serious, deadly

Gorge: a deep hole

Caldron: a hot pot or kettle filled with boiling liquid

Spume: hot scalding water and steam fired from a geyser

Bellowing: loud ringing voices like bulls

Bourne: to carry

Grapple: to struggle, particularly with one’s hands

Please reread pages 920 – 922; up to “The Cattle of the Sun God”

Then write a brief summary of what you have read.

Read pages 922 – 924; “The Cattle of the Sun God”

Vocabulary:

Grotto: a sea cave

Appease: to satisfy

Cravings: hunger

Famine: starvation, which is the worst, most painful way to die.

Hull: the ship; specifically, the exterior shell of the boat

Supplication: humble requests, prayers

Insidious: crafty, sly, intending to trap, evil that is slow moving or develops in an undercover manner, and is not immediately noticeable in the beginning. By the time the evil becomes apparent, it is too late – the damage has already been done.

Entrails: intestines

Contrived: to construct, to make up

Overweening: excessively arrogant

Figurative Language:

“…Dawn with fingertips of rose touched the windy world.”

Personification, imagery

Commentary:

Eurylochus is the ringleader who urges the starving men to kill and eat Helio’s sheep and cows. Eurylochus states: “Better open your lungs to a big sea once for all than waste to skin and bones on a lonely island.”

Eurylochus is the same man who sensed that Circe was laying a trap for the men, and ran back to the ship to inform Odysseus what was occurring.

How did the gods hinder the men on the Island of Helios? 

What happened when Odysseus tried to pray to the gods for help?

Period 3:

Your second AR test and AR book  reading log are due no later than 3^rd period, tomorrow!

Kahoot.it over “The Land of the Dead”

Read The Odyssey, pages 920; Page 920, “The Sirens”; Line 763: “But scarcely had that island faded in blue air….”

Vocabulary:

Tumult: confusion, chaos, uproar

Bow: the front of the boat

Stern: the back of the boat

Penned: to be put in a pen or a small enclosure

Peril: danger

Wit: intelligence or cleverness

Founder: to sink or run aground in a boat. A boat runs aground when its bottom hits sand or the ground.

Tiller: the sailor that controls the rudder  to guide the boat.

Rudders: the implement at the back of the boat that guides the direction of the boat.

Combers: big waves

Smothers: commotion,

Bidding: command, directives, orders

Cuirass: chest armor

Travail: hard, exhausting labor

Dire: serious, deadly

Gorge: a deep hole

Caldron: a hot pot or kettle filled with boiling liquid

Spume: hot scalding water and steam fired from a geyser

Bellowing: loud ringing voices like bulls

Bourne: to carry

Grapple: to struggle, particularly with one’s hands

Please reread pages 920 – 922; up to “The Cattle of the Sun God”

Then write a brief summary of what you have read.

Read pages 922 – 924; “The Cattle of the Sun God”

Vocabulary:

Grotto: a sea cave

Appease: to satisfy

Cravings: hunger

Famine: starvation, which is the worst, most painful way to die.

Hull: the ship; specifically, the exterior shell of the boat

Supplication: humble requests, prayers

Insidious: crafty, sly, intending to trap, evil that is slow moving or develops in an undercover manner, and is not immediately noticeable in the beginning. By the time the evil becomes apparent, it is too late – the damage has already been done.

Entrails: intestines

Contrived: to construct, to make up

Overweening: excessively arrogant

Figurative Language:

“…Dawn with fingertips of rose touched the windy world.”

Personification, imagery

Commentary:

Eurylochus is the ringleader who urges the starving men to kill and eat Helio’s sheep and cows. Eurylochus states: “Better open your lungs to a big sea once for all than waste to skin and bones on a lonely island.”

Eurylochus is the same man who sensed that Circe was laying a trap for the men, and ran back to the ship to inform Odysseus what was occurring.

Questions:

How did the gods hinder the men on the Island of Helios? 

What happened when Odysseus tried to pray to the gods for help?

Tuesday, March 15^th:

BIC

1^st Period:

Your second AR test and AR reading log are due today – no exceptions!

Tomorrow, we will have a test over “Circe”, “The Land of the Dead”, “Back to Circe”, “The Sirens”, “Scylla”, “Charybdis”, “The Isle of Helios, the Sun God”.

Your reading logs over the above stories will also be due Thursday.

Today we will have a kahoot.it as a review for the test.

3^rd Period:

Your second AR test and AR reading log are due today – no exceptions!

Tomorrow, we will have a test over “Circe”, “The Land of the Dead”, “Back to Circe”, “The Sirens”, “Scylla”, “Charybdis”, “The Isle of Helios, the Sun God”.

Your reading logs over the above stories will also be due Thursday.

Today we will have a kahoot.it as a review for the test.

Wednesday, March 16th: 

BIC

1^st Period:

“Kahoot.it” over Circe, the Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and Helios the sun god.

Test over Book 12 of The Odyssey

Tomorrow, March 17^th, your notes for The Odyssey will be due. These notes cover “The Underworld”, “Circe”, “The Sirens”, “Scylla”, “Charybdis”, and “Helios, the Sun God.”

3^rd Period:

Test over Book 12 of The Odyssey

Tomorrow, March 17^th, your notes for The Odyssey will be due. These notes cover “The Underworld”, “Circe”, “The Sirens”, “Scylla”, “Charybdis”, and “Helios, the Sun God.”

Thursday, March 17^th:

BIC

1^st Period:

On a sheet of paper, write your name, and title the paper “Strategies to Improve Your Grades”.

Then number your paper one through five. Next to each number write down one thing you can do to improve your grades in this class.

1.     I can write down the assignments in a special place, like my planner or calendar, and check it every day when I sit down to do my homework.

2.     Find a quiet place to do my homework.

3.     If I am listening to my music, listen to songs that don’t have lyrics.

4.     If I am studying for a long time, then take a five minute break every hour.

5.     When I am studying, I need to turn off my phone or put on airplane mode.

6.     When I am studying, I need to be off by myself and not with my friends.

7.     If I am having a hard time in a class, then I should go to either tutoring, or my teacher, or Mr. Briggs.

8.     Discuss what I have learned with a friend, or my parents, or my sister or brother.

9.     Have a study group to study with.

10. Set aside a certain time each day to work on English.

11.  Get the bigger, most important assignment done first.

12.  Ask the teacher for extra credit – but first, do the assigned work first.

Watch “The Odyssey”; "Calypso"

Period 3:

1. Make a schedule for doing your homework and your important assignments.

2. Do not procrastinate

3. Extra Credit!

4. Ask the teacher for what work you are missing.

5. Look at the teacher’s blog

6.Turn in your work on time

7. Ask for the work you are missing and do it over the spring break.

8. Study for the test!

9. Make your own Kahoot!

10. You also get extra credit for making a Kahoot!

11. Review the notes you have taken in class

Watch "The Odyssey" - "Scylla, Charybdis, Calypso", etc.

Friday, March 18th: 

BIC

1^st Period:

Watch the film “The Odyssey”

Stopped at Chapter 26 – when Odysseus returns to Ithaca.

Over the break, please find an AR book to read over the break and don’t forget to do your reading log.

Use your NINE DAYS OF VACATION to finish ALL THE WORK YOU OWE IN THIS CLASS AND TURN IN ON TUESDAY, MARCH 29^TH!

3rd Period: 

Watch the film “The Odyssey” 

Stopped at Chapter 

Over the break, please find an AR book to read over the break and don’t forget to do your reading log. 

Use your NINE DAYS OF VACATION to finish ALL THE WORK YOU OWE IN THIS CLASS AND TURN IN ON TUESDAY, MARCH 29^TH! 

March 7, 2016 - March 11, 2016; The Odyssey: the Land of the Dead

Monday, March 7^th:

BIC:

Please be aware that one week from tomorrow, March 15^th, your second AR test and AR reading log will be due.

Aeolus is the god of what force of nature?

What favor did Aeolus do for Odysseus?

What did Odysseus do with this favor?

What do the events that follow show about human nature?

What should both Odysseus and the men have done to prevent this event?

Which sailor did not partake of Circe’s food and drink?

Why didn’t he eat Circe’s food?

What did this sailor do instead?

What happened to the men who ate Circe’s food?

What does this reveal about the true inner nature of Odysseus’ men?

What god gave information to Odysseus?

What did the god give Odysseus as protection against Circe?

How did Odysseus retrieve his men from Circe?

How long did the men stay in Circe’s court?

What evidence does Circe give to prove to Odysseus the length of time he has stayed?

Why did Odysseus and his men stay so long at Circe’s court?

What lesson can be derived from this particular adventure of Odysseus?

Watch the movie

Tuesday, March 8th:
BIC
1st Period: 
How to do test corrections for The Odyssey test: 

First, put your name on your test corrections: 

Jasmine Salazar

Period 1

March 8, 2016

Then, at the top, write exactly what it is: 

The Odyssey, Books 1 - 9 Test Corrections

Then, write out the question and the right answer like this: 

1.     The Odyssey begins immediately___________after the fall of Troy.

Answer: a. ten years

2.     The first major character we meet in The Odyssey is:

Answer: c. Telemachus

Then, staple your test corrections to your test and turn it in. If you follow the directions, your test grade will go up  one letter grade. 

The last day to turn in your second reading log and AR reading test is Tuesday, March 15^th.

Watch “The Odyssey”: Chapter 5: “Homeward Bound”, “The Cyclops”,
“Aeolus, the Wind God”, “On the Far Side of the World”, “The Rescue”, “Circe” (stopped at 11:11:11) after Penelope tells the suitors she will not choose a new husband until she has finished a burial shroud for her father-in-law.

Period 3:

Kahoot.it: “Aeolus the Wind God”

Watched THE ODYSSEY; watched the second part of Circe and Odyssseus' descent into the Underworld to speak to Teiresias.

Wednesday, March 9^th:

BIC

Kahoot.it:

“Aeolos the Wind God” and “Circe”

Watched the film “The Odyssey” up to Odysseus washing up on the shores of Calypso.

Note: the men survive Charybdis. The men sail on to the isle of Helios which is where the starving men disobey – again – Odysseus’ warning not to eat the cows and sheep “that are never born and never die”. Odysseus had been warned by Circe about this and was told that despite his warnings to the men, they would eat the cows and sheep anyway, favorite pets of the sun god Helios, and they would be killed for it. Once the men board the boat, Zeus – at the enraged Helio’s request – will send a thunderbolt, which will destroy the boat and all the men on it, with the exception of Odysseus. Circe also told him that he alone would survive and be the  only man to return home.

Tomorrow, begin reading again.

Friendly reminder:

Tuesday, March 15^th is the last day to turn in your AR reading log and AR reading test.

3rd Period: 

Period 3:

The Odyssey

Questions over pages 914 – 915 in The Odyssey

We are going to read aloud pages 914 – 915, “The Under World” first. We will then discuss vocabulary and background information. After that, you will silently reread the passages and find the answers to the following questions:

1.     Where does Circe send Odysseus?

2.     Why does Circe send Odysseus there?

3.     What must Odysseus do when he gets to his destination?

4.     What does Odysseus learn at this destination?

5.     What does Teiresias tell him about the Island of Thrinakia, the land of Helios, the sun god?

6.     What must Odysseus’ men NOT do on the Isle of Helio’s?

7.     But according to Teiresias, what will the men do anyway on the Isle of Helio’s?

8.     What will happen to Odysseus’ men due to their behavior?

9.     How will this affect Odysseus?

10. According to Teiresias, what will Odysseus find when he gets home?

11. After Odysseus resolves the issues at home, what is he to do?

12. If he does as Teiresias tells him, what reward will Odysseus have at the end of his life?

13. Who does Odysseus see, which greatly surprises him at the destination?

14. After Odysseus leaves, where does he go?

15. What information does Circe tell Odysseus when he returns to her?

“The Land of the Dead”

Pages 914 – 915

Background Information:

Teiresias is a blind prophet who is dead and is now in the Under World. Cultures from around the world attribute "inner sight" or the gift of seeing the unknown, the future, and the past, to those who are blind. In many folk tales, myths, and legends, seers, prophets, and soothsayers are blind. Circe sends Odysseus to the Underworld to find out his fate from Teiresias. She instructs Odysseus to take a sheep to make a blood sacrifice to bring forth Teiresias from the dead.

Vocabulary:

Assuage: to make a most unpleasant feeling less intense; to make something better.

Sovereign: independent; a power unto itself;

Background Info:

The Myth of Hades and Persephone or Where the Seasons Come from.

The Greeks believed that how one died is how one spends the rest of eternity, so if a soldier dies from impalement, he will walk around with a spear sticking out of him for all of eternity. 

Painting of Circe by John W. Waterhouse 1892

Tomorrow, read: 

“The Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis”

Pages 916 - 922

Thursday, March 10th: 

BIC

1st Period:

The Odyssey

Questions over pages 914 – 915 in The Odyssey

We are going to read aloud pages 914 – 915, “The Under World” first. We will then discuss vocabulary and background information. After that, you will silently reread the passages and find the answers to the following questions:

1.     Where does Circe send Odysseus?

2.     Why does Circe send Odysseus there?

3.     What must Odysseus do when he gets to his destination?

4.     What does Odysseus learn at this destination?

5.     What does Teiresias tell him about the Island of Thrinakia, the land of Helios, the sun god?

6.     What must Odysseus’ men NOT do on the Isle of Helio’s?

7.     But according to Teiresias, what will the men do anyway on the Isle of Helio’s?

8.     What will happen to Odysseus’ men due to their behavior?

9.     How will this affect Odysseus?

10. According to Teiresias, what will Odysseus find when he gets home?

11. After Odysseus resolves the issues at home, what is he to do?

12. If he does as Teiresias tells him, what reward will Odysseus have at the end of his life?

13. Who does Odysseus see, which greatly surprises him at the destination?

14. After Odysseus leaves, where does he go?

15. What information does Circe tell Odysseus when he returns to her?

What is the story of Persephone, Hades, and Ceres (or Demeter)? Discussion.

Ceres is the name of the goddess of grains and harvest. Where do you think we got the word cereal from?

“The Land of the Dead”

Pages 914 – 915

Background Information:

Teiresias is a blind prophet who is dead and is now in the Under World. Circe sends Odysseus to the Underworld to find out his fate from Teiresias. She instructs Odysseus to take a sheep to make a blood sacrifice to bring forth Teiresias from the dead.

Helios: the sun god who drives his golden steeds (horses) across the sky in a chariot. He harnesses his horses in his stables in the east and drives them across the sky to the western stables where he unharnesses them for the night.

Vocabulary:

Assuage: to make a most unpleasant feeling less intense; to make something better.

Sovereign: independent; a power unto itself;

Woe: sadness, sorrow

Heifer: a young cow that has not had a calf (baby cow)

Background Info:

The Myth of Hades and Persephone or Where the Seasons Come from.

Discussion.

The Greeks believed that how one died is how one spends the rest of eternity, so if a soldier dies from impalement, he must walk around with a spear sticking out of him.

Vocabulary:

Bereft: feeling a profound sense of loss after losing something or someone of importance to one.

Odysseus will be bereft of his crew after they are killed by Zeus’s lightning bolt for eating Helios the sun god’s cows and sheep.

Winnowing fan: a farm implement or tool that is used to separate grains. It looks somewhat like an oar.

Odysseus will know that he has reached the right place for the sacrifice to Poseidon when someone who has never seen an oar will ask him why he is carrying a winnowing fan.

Question:

Why is it ironic that after he defeats the suitors who are destroying his home, Odysseus must travel far inland to make sacrifice to Poseidon?

Read The Odyssey, pages 914 – 915:

Discussion, comprehension, vocabulary, background information

For Homework tonight: finish answering the questions 1- 15 on this page.

Copy down the notes on this page for The Odyssey; pages 914 – 915.

Period 3: 
Answered the questions 1-15 in class today. 
Vocabulary: 
Atone: Some religions believe that when a mortal commits a sin, the sin separates the mortal from God. When one asks God or the gods for forgiveness, and tries to right the wrong one has done, one is then at one with God. From this we get the word "Atone" (at + one) or to be at one with God again. To atone is to ask forgiveness for a wrong one has committed and to try to right the wrong.

Bereft: To feel a sense of loss over losing something or someone of importance.

Friday, March 11th: 
BIC: 
8:00 - 8:15
1st Period: 
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.

Circe by John William Waterhouse (1911 - 1914)

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