Monday, March 7th:
BIC:
Please be aware that one week from tomorrow, March 15th, 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:
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.
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 15th.
“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 9th:
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 15th is the last day to turn in
your AR reading log and AR reading test.
3rd Period:
Tomorrow, read:
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.
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| Painting of Circe by John W. Waterhouse 1892 |
“The Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis”
Pages 916 - 922
Thursday, March 10th:
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.
Period 3:
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.
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| Circe by John William Waterhouse (1911 - 1914) |
