February 27, 2017 - March 3, 2017 Agenda

 

Monday, February 27th:

Unit Four Vocabulary test

The following questions were not properly displayed on the test paper:

7. Responsible computer users ________the tactics of hackers who break into government and corporate computers.

a. muster             b. deplore             c. peruse             d. sustain

30. Deplore  violence:

a. disapprove                        b. foment            c. resist            d. ignore

Do remember: the last day to turn in your AR test results and your AR reading log is March 25^th!

Please bring your Vocabulary book tomorrow. Unit Five will be assigned and will be due next Tuesday, March 7^th!

Your essay will be due on Friday, March 3^rd!!!! The essay must be typed and turned into turnitin.com

 You will choose two stories from The Odyssey  and find a moral or life lesson in each story.

You are going to take notes on writing your essay for the last few stories we read in The Odyssey: “The Battle of the Cicones”; “The Lotus Eaters”; “The Cyclops”; “Circe”; “The Land of the Dead”; “Scylla”; “Charybdis”; and “Helios."

This is going to be due Friday, March 3rd.  It should be typed and you must submit it to turnitin.com.

It should have a minimum of five paragraphs or 500 words.

The topic is the moral or life lesson to be learned from at least two of the stories we read in The Odyssey.

The first paragraph should have the title of the book, the title of the two stories you will be discussing, and the author’s name. The introductory paragraph should briefly list what you are going to be discussing and it should have a grabber that makes the reader want to continue with your essay!

Each body paragraph should have a topic sentence – or what your paragraph is about! You are going to briefly describe the story you have chosen. Then you need to use a brief quotation from the story to support your claims about the story. Every time you use a quotation, then you need to explain, elaborate, or clarify the quotation.Then you need to show how this story provides a life lesson.

There should be a minimum of three body paragraphs.

Conclusion:

Briefly, recap the main points of the two stories and the life lessons drawn from the story.

Jassmyn will submit her ten note cards on Tuesday, February 28^th. Ten more will be due this Friday, March 3rd. The research paper will be due on Wednesday, March 9^th.

Tuesday, February 28th: 

Corrected the test together: 

1.     B. Obsessed

2.     C. Recourse

3.     D. Residue

4.     A. Peruse

5.     C. Prone

6.     D. Bolster

7.     B. Deplore

8.     C. Ousted

9.     A. Ornate

10. C. Frivolous

11. A. Porous

12. D. Muster

13. C. Sustain

14. D. Qualms

15. D. Staid

16. D. Blasé

17. D. Annul

18. D. Solicitous

Definitions:

19. B. Promontory

20. D. Prone

21. A. Nonentity

Part of Speech

22. C. Adjective

23. B. Noun

24. A. Verb

Synonyms:

25. B. to think constantly about something or someone

26. C. Strengthen

27. A. Indifferent

28. C. Suffer

29. A. Concerned

30. A. Disapprove

Please put the number the student got wrong!

To correct your vocabulary test, please write the question, the right answer, and then write an original sentence using the word.

Grammar: please work on the grammar handout on run-ons. If you do not finish during class, please finish it for homework tonight. 

To correct the fifteen run-ons, you can:

put a period between the two sentences

put a semi-colon (;) between the two sentences

put a fanboy or a conjunction between the two sentences (fanboy = for, and, nor, but, or, yet)

put a conjunctive adverb

;however,_______________. ;nevertheless,_________________.

Wednesday, March 1st:

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Quiet reading time!

Review last night’s homework on run-on sentences!

Onyx:

1.     Maria Tallchief….Indian.  She became….

Sandy:

            Maria Tallchief….Indian; she became…

 Ashanti:

2.     Reiko Amato designed….yearbook; the design….

Kimberly:

3.     Delaware….smallest states; however, Rhode Island….smaller.

Itzel:

4.     The Adnes Mountains….South America, and the Alps are in Europe.

Samantha:

5.     We wanted to…..dress rehearsal; however, we had to go to…soccer practice.

Sandra:

6.     The sound of the motorcycle…me up, but  I still didn’t get…of bed.

Karla:

7.     Fifth Chinese Daughter…for the book group, and I am so glad….it.

Mercedes:

8.     The storm….; therefore, we had already….shelter.

Malia:

9.     Did you attend the concert? My mom….school night.

Sandy:

10.   I have always love….animals, and someday….a vet.

Gina:

11.   Chen will march….parade, but his sister will not.

Helen:

12.   Do you enjoy hiking? We are…next weekend.

Maria:

13.   We will take….bottle of water; they won’t…much space.

Pamela:

14.   His older brother….Thanksgiving, and his younger brother….is, too.

Kimberly:

15.   Their house has …..with boxes. Treasures from the past….inside each box.

Ellipses are dots which show that something has been omitted or a continuation of a thought in a sentences or pauses in a script.

Writing The Odyssey Essay:

Open your books to The Odyssey, skim the stories, and decide which two stories you are going to write about. Remember the prompt is: analyzing the stories in terms of the life lesson learned.

You can write about two of the following stories:

Calypso, the Bag of Winds, the Battle of the Cicones, the Lotus Eaters, the Cyclops, Circe, Land of the Dead, Circe, the Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, Helios, etc. 

This should be the outline for your essay: 

Outline of Your Essay:

Introduction

Title of the two stories and name of author

One sentence each describing the life story learned in each story

Interesting grabber sentence

Transitional sentence

First body paragraph:

Thesis statement for the first body paragraph

Very brief summary of the story – in your own words

Quotation which conveys the moral of this story

In your own words explain the moral to be learned.

In your own words do you think that Odysseus and his men learned the lesson. 

Second body paragraph:

Thesis statement for the second body paragraph

Very brief summary of the story – in your own words

Quotation which conveys the moral of this story

In your own words explain the moral to be learned.

In your own words do you think  Odysseus and his men learned the lesson. 

Third body paragraph:

Thesis statement for the third body paragraph

Show how both stories give important life lessons by comparing and contrasting them.

Use summary and quotations to prove point.

Concluding paragraph:

Briefly list the life lessons learned

Write a final summing up of the lessons learned.

Thursday, March 2nd: 

Went over how to create an account on turnitin.com:

Website: turnitin.com

Class id# 132628756

Your Odyssey paper is due tomorrow by midnight Friday, March 3^rd.

Starter paragraph for The Odyssey essay:

One of the purposes of The Odyssey was to teach young Greeks important life lessons - important things such as not to waste time, or to be polite to guests. During Odysseus’ long voyage home he encountered many strange and difficult situations which challenged him and his men.  During his wanderings Odysseus and his crew many times found themselves as guests in other people's homes.  In Book Nine of The Odyssey,  Odysseus lands on two different islands - the island of the Cicones and the island of the Cyclops.  Due to the very rude behavior of his crew as guests on these islands horrible things happened and some of the men lost their lives at the hands of the angry hosts. Had they behaved intelligently tragedy could have been avoided.  Odysseus's men never learned the lesson that in Greek society, the ties between guests and hosts were sacred.  Both host and guest must be respected, and because the crew never learned that lesson, they died. When Odysseus,  alone,  returned home, he had one final lesson to learn - ironically, he was now the host and a large number of rude, violent, and dangerous "guests" were there at his house, robbing him of his home.

Friday, March 3rd: 

Work on essay, which is due at midnight tonight, Friday, March 3^rd. 

You must turn it in to turnitin.com

The class id is: 

The class code is: English9

The essay is the life lessons taught in The Odyssey

Today is quiet work today. You may do one of the following:

Work on your essay

Read and work on your reading log for you AR book

Work on Unit Five Vocabulary

Work on the grammar handout on run-ons.

 

February 20, 2017 - February 24, 2017 Weekly Agenda

Tuesday, February 21st: 

Correcting the test over The Odyssey

1     1.  a  2. c  3. a  4. d  5. d 6. d 7. d. 8. d 9. a 10. a 11. d 12. b

13. c 14. a 15. c 16. a 17. a 18. c 19. c 20. c 21. d 22. a

23. c 24. d  25. a 26. a 27. a 28. c 29. d 30. b 31. c 32. a 33. c 34. d

35. c 36. a 37. c 38. b 39. a 40. a

Please write the number they got wrong and write the number they got wrong on the top of the first page.

Please back sure you write “CB” and then your full name!

Four people had to do make-up test: Shianne, Julio, Maricarmen, Kateryn

Wednesday, February 22nd: 

Played Kahoot.it  on Vocabulary Workshop; Level C, Unit 4

Correct the Unit 4 test as a class

Write your first and last name at the bottom:

“CB­­­­­­­­­­­­__________________

The write a small X next to the next part the person got incorrect.

Definitions:

All twenty  words must be defined

Must have the word, the definition, the part of speech, and the short phrase

Completing the Sentence:

1.     Qualms

2.      Deplore

3.     Promontory

4.     Sustain

5.     Frivolous

6.     Oust

7.     Bolster

8.     Staid

9.     Recourse

10. Annul

11. Porous

12. Mustered

13. Obsess

14. Ornate

15. Nonentity

16. Residue

17. Peruse

18. Solicitous

19. Blasé

20. Prone

Synonyms:

1.     Named on the regiment’s roster: muster

2.     Prone

3.     Ouster

4.     Frivolous

5.     Recourse

6.     Bolster

7.     Ornate

8.     Residue

9.     Sustain

10. Promontory

11. Obsessed

12. Porous

13. Deplore

14. Qualms

15. Peruse

Antonyms:

16. Arrived wearing a gaudy suit: staid

17. Blasé

18. Solicitious

19. Annul

20. Nonentities

Choosing the Right Word:

1.     Sustain

2.     Annulling

3.     Promontory

4.     Bolstered

5.     Nonentities

6.     Residue

7.     Frivolous

8.     Deplore

9.     Staid

10. Recourse

11. Obsessed

12. Perusing

13. Porous

14. Prone

15. Muster

16. Qualms

17. Solicitous

18. Ornate

19. Ousted

20. Blasé

Vocabulary in Context:

1.     The meaning of obsessed  is: A. preoccupied

2.     Bolster most nearly means: A. boost

3.     Staid is best defined as D. dignified

4.      The meaning of deplored is D. lamented

5.     Frivolous most nearly means C. trifling

6.     Qualms is best defined as A. doubts

Thursday, February 23rd: 

You are going to take notes on writing your essay for the last few stories we read in The Odyssey: “The Battle of the Cicones”; “The Lotus Eaters”; “The Cyclops”; “Circe”; “The Land of the Dead”; “Scylla”; “Charybdis”; and “Helios”.

This is going to be due Wednesday, March 1^st.  It should be typed and you must submit it to turnitin.com.

It should have a minimum of five paragraphs or 500 words.

The topic is the morale or life lesson to be learned from at least two of the stories we read in The Odyssey.

The first paragraph should have the title of the book, the title of the two stories you will be discussing, and the author’s name. The introductory paragraph should briefly list what you are going to be discussing and it should have a grabber that makes the reader want to continue with your essay!

 body paragraph should have a topic sentence – or what your paragraph is about! You are going to briefly describe the story you have chosen. Then you need to use a brief quotation from the story to support your claims about the story. Every time you use a quotation, then you need to explain, elaborate, or clarify the quotation.Then you need to show how this story provides a life lesson.

There should be a minimum of three body paragraphs. 

Friday, February 24th: 

Quietly watch rehearsal for "The Black History Assembly" 

 

A Long and Difficult Journey, or The Odyssey: Crash Course Literature 201

February 13, 2017 - February 17, 2017 Weekly Agenda

Monday, February 13th:

Warm-ups:

Unit 4 Vocabulary is due tomorrow!

Frivolous: (adjective = description) of little importance; not worthy of serious consideration; not meant seriously.

Don’t waste your time on frivolous pursuits such as boys or trying to be popular.

Muster: (verb = an action or a state of being) to bring together for service or battle; to gather or to summon; comprise; to include.
(noun) a list of men for military service; a gathering; accumulation.

We are in imminent danger of being attacked; we must muster our soldiers to defend ourselves.

Hellen:  It is frivolous to worry about what people think of you.

Shianne: I told him to muster up the troops to fight!

The Odyssey, page 682 – 683

"Scylla and Charybdis"
Vocabulary: 

Mackerel: fish

Tiller: the person at the back of the boat controlling the rudders.

Maelstrom: a whirlpool; noise and confusion

Spume: the water that is sprayed from a geyser; a spray of water.

Helios: is the sun god. He harnesses his horses in the stable in the east and then drives his chariot across the sky towards the west, where he unharnesses them for the night.

Finished reading Helios the Sun God

Tuesday, February 14th: 

Collect the Unit Four Vocabulary homework

Warm-up:

Write two sentences using words from Unit Four

1. Nonentity:  (noun) a person or thing of no importance

Although we are not celebrities, we did not deserve to be treated as nonentities by the headwaiter.

Your original sentence: ­­­­­­­____________________________________________________________________.

2. Obsess: (verb) to trouble, or haunt the mind, to fill the mind. To think without stopping about something (continuously) and be troubled by it.

David obsessed about getting the new video game.  When he finally got the game as a present, David played it obsessively for two weeks straight.

Obsession is the noun form of the word obsess. Her obsession with finishing her book filled her every thought.

Obsessive is the adjective form of the word obsess. Elizabeth was obsessive over her art.

Obsessively is the adverb form of the word obsessive. An adverb describes how something was done – in other words, it describes a verb.

Fret means to worry.

The new mother fretted obsessively over her new baby’s every cough or sneeze.

How did the new mother fret? She fretted obsessively.

This is how you do the Vocabulary Workshop Unit Four homework, pages 55 -  57:

Pages 54 - 55, “Completing the Sentences”

You just write the correct word.

Page 55, “Synonyms”

1.     named on the regiment’s roster: muster

Page 55, “Antonyms”

16. arrived wearing a gaudy  suit: staid

Page 56, “Choosing the Right Word”

Just write the correct word.

Page 57; “Vocabulary in Context”

1.     The meaning of obsessed is: a. preoccupied

Played Kahoot for review of “The Isle of Circes”and “The Land of the Dead”.

Wednesday, February 16th: 

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Vocabulary:

Ornate: (adjective) Elaborately decorated; showily splendid; ostentatious!

Sentence: Onyx’s home was so ornately decorated that she won “Best Decorated House” during the Christmas season.

Pamela: The Christmas tree at the Grove is always very ornate.

The Christmas tree at the Grove is always ornately decorated.

Now you write your original sentence:

___________________________________________________________________________________.

Oust: (verb = action or a state of being) to remove, to drive out of a position or a place.

Sentence: Michael Flynn was ousted from his position in the Trump Administration due to misleading the Vice-President about talking to the Russians.

Sentence: Malia was ousted from class for constant non-stop burping.

Shianne: I will oust Carolina from my life after I divorce her.

Gina: Many people would like to oust Donald J. Trump from his presidence.

Red Team           

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When Ms. Bridges  reads a question about The Odyssey, everyone tries to find the answer in the book. Whoever finds the answer first, runs to the board and writes down the answer found in the book.

1.     Where was Odysseus as he was recounting where he had been for the last ten years? Gina: Odysseus relates his story in Alcinous’ court

2.     Who sent Odysseus to the Land of the Dead? Kimberly: Circe Danny:  Circe: Samantha: (page 675) “She responds their pleas with the command that Odysseus alone descends to the “Land of the Dead”.

3.     Why was Odysseus sent to the “Land of the Dead”. Shianne: “There Odysseus seeks to learn his destiny.”

4.     Who was Teiresias? Shianne and Samantha: Teiresias was the famous blind prophet.

5.     How did Odysseus act when the dead came up to him with rustling cries? (page 676) Samantha: Jennifer: “I grew sick with fear!”

6.     Who were some of the dead who gathered around him? (page 675) Gina: Odysseus’ mother, “brides and young man.” Jennifer: “Tender girls whose hearts were new to grief.”

7.     According to Teiresias, why is Poseidon punishing Odysseus? (page 677) Gina and Samantha:  “In rancor for the son whose eye you blinded!”  Gina: Odysseus didn’t give Poseidon credit for helping him win the Trojan War.

Jazmin – three notecards by the end of the period on her research paper on Greek Mythology

Thursday, February 16th:  
Kahoots - review of The Odyssey - the Land of the Dead, Circe, the Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and the Isle of Helios. 

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.”