Answer questions from Friday, March 2nd.
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?
Read The Odyssey, pages 683, 684, and 685.
Discussion - Helios, the Sun God
Tuesday, March 6th:
Break into groups of three
Choose one of the following stories:
The Land of the Lotus Eaters
The Cyclops
Circe
The Land of the Dead
The Sirens
Scylla and Charybdis
Helios, the Sun God
You will create a presentation detailing the following in your book of the Odyssey:
1. The plot
2. The characters
a. What the characters represent
3. Theme(s)
a. What universal truth is presented by the story?
4. Figurative Language
a. Similes b. Metaphors c. Personification d. Allusion e. Imagery
Your presentation must include a power point with at least five slides
Each person must make at least slide
Tuesday, March 6th:
The Odyssey Book 9 Vocabulary
Gales: strong winds
Dismembered: to tear into parts, to mutilate
Spent period trying to reset the password for half the class
Wednesday, March 7th:
The Odyssey Book 9 Vocabulary Wednesday, March 7th:
Gales: strong winds
Dismembered: to tear apart, to mutilate; to tear a whole
into smaller pieces
Read The Odyssey; “The Isle of Helios”; page 684
Salamata – reading
Why did Odysseus urge his men not to land on the Isle of
Helios?
Lisbeth – Because Circe and Teresias both told him that his
men would eat Helio’s cattle and sheep and would be killed as punishment.
Vocabulary:
Heifers: young cows that have had calves.
Barley: grain
Scour: to scrub, to look closely for something
What were Odysseus’ men scouring the wild shore for?
Fish and fowl!
What is fowl?
Jason – Birds that are eaten!
Supplication – a prayer
Insidious – treacherous, more dangerous than is apparent.
Famine: lack of food, when the crops fail and there is no
food to be eaten, starvation
What is Eurylochus’ argument?
Lisbeth: “Better open your lungs to a big sea once and for all
than waste to skin and bones on a lonely island!”
Where is Odysseus now?
Jasmine – Odysseus is praying to the gods for help and for protection of his men and he falls
asleep.
Libation: a drink; it is usually wine, but because the men
had drunk up all the wine, they used water.
Entrails: intestines, guts
Eddied: to swirl around something like water around a tree
or a pole
Lampetia: daughter of Helios, personification of light.
Lisbeth: Odysseus wakes up and he asks the gods why they
would allow him to fall asleep during this time of misery? As he is running back to his men, the aroma of the cooking meat wafts toward him. He is in despair for he realizes that the prophecy of Circe and Teresias have come true - the men have killed and eaten the beloved animals of Helios. He knows that the gods will be angry and that his men will be killed as punishment. Lampetia, Helio’s daughter, tells him the sad news of what Odysseus’ men
have done. Helios is furious and demands that Zeus punish Odysseus’ men by
killing them. Zeus kills the men with a thunder bolt when they set sail for
home, setting the ship on fire and killing all the men, except for Odysseus.
Odysseus is now alone.
Break into groups to work on presentations
Lisbeth A., Nadiya, Kevin – Stage Left
Lisbeth L. , Katherine, Jason – Stage Right
Helios the Sun God
Plot – Start the story from Tiresias and Circe's prophecies
Milan L., Jose,
Julia, Yessenia – first bookcase
Land of the Dead
Melanie, Salamata, David, Tymiah – clock
The Cyclops
Taylor, Alejandra, Adolfo – by the fourth bookcase
Scylla and Charybdis
Julian, Samantha, Cierra, Hilaryd – bear poster
The Sirens
Takai, Makenna, Idalia, Jasmine - third window
The Lotus Eaters
Thursday, March 8th:
Meetings with the following groups: Lisbeth A., Nadiya, Kevin – Stage Left
Circe
1.
The plot –Two minutes
Include
the exposition
Have
a title page
Three
slides for the plot
A
picture
Bullet
points – main idea
The
students are going to use the notecards to explain the story
2.
The characters – Circe, Hermes Odysseus, Eurylocus, Polites,
a. What the characters represent
1.
The animals that the men are turned into represent their spirit animals
For
the character portion, there should be one slide per character
Who
they are, what do they represent, and what do they do in the story
3.
Theme(s)
a. What universal truth is presented by the story?
If
one is distracted by pleasure, one may lose sight of one’s goals or what is
important in life.
4.
Figurative Language
a. Similes b. Metaphors c. Personification d. Allusion e.
Imagery
Similes:
line 545 – “They faced our men like hounds….”
Imagery:
line 570 – “ …when she flew after them with her long stick and shut them in a
pigsty”
Your
presentation must include a power point with at least five slides
Each
person must make at least slide
Finish meeting with Lisbeth L.'s group tomorrow - Friday 3/9
Friday, March 9th:
Friday, March 9th:
Meeting with: David, Tymiah, Melanie, Salamata
Each person in your group needs to do a minimum of two
slides:
The slide must have bullet points and a picture that is
relevant to the topic.
Title Slide – The title of your book, and everyone’s name on
the title slide
Plot – include the exposition
Three slides for the plot:
Bullet points
A picture
Characters:
Odysseus, his crew, the Cyclops, and the other Cyclops
One slide per character
Odysseus is the leader. We get the word “odyssey” from his
name because he wandered for ten years after the Trojan.
Odysseus was the cleverest man on earth at that time. Because of his brilliance Athena, the
Goddess of Wisdom, loved him. However, Odysseus was also very arrogant and
that’s what got him in trouble.
Theme:
When the ties between hosts and guests, violence can ensue.
The Cyclops is a contest between intelligence and blind
brutal force, with Odysseus representing intelligence and the Cyclops
representing blind brutal force.
Figurative Language:
Metaphors, Similes, Imagery, Personification:
Page 663; line 297 – “ When the young Dawn with fingertips
of rose lit up the world” is personification
Page 661; line 244 – “Or are you wandering rogues, who cast
your lives like dice and ravage
other folk by sea?” – simile
Page 665 - 666; lines 382 – 384 “So with our brand we bored
that great eye socket while blood ran out around the red-hot bar. Eyeball and
lash were seared; the pierced ball hissed broiling, and the roots popped.”
Imagery
Meeting with Jose, Julia, Yessenia, Milan
The Land of the Dead
Title Page with a nice picture about the Land of the Dead
Plot – explain why Odysseus is sent to the Land of the Dead.
Who sent him and why?
What does he found out in the Land of the Dead – he founds
that his men are going to die and he will be the only survivor. He also finds
out his mother has died.
The Greeks called ghosts “shades”.
Characters: One slide per character; brief description of each character, and a picture of them
Odysseus
Circe - the witch who sends Odysseus to the Land of the Dead
Tiresias - the blind prophet in the Land of the Dead
Theme:
Figurative Language:
Meeting with Hilaryd, Julian, Cierra, Samantha
“The Sirens”
Title page with the title of the book, your names, and a
nice picture of the Sirens
Characters: Odysseus, his men, and the Sirens, Circe
Plot: (Two Slides) Be sure you include Circe telling
Odysseus what he has to do to hear the Sirens.
The Theme: Those who are clever and have self-control will
succeed.
How does Odysseus reveal that people who are clever and have
self-control will succeed?
Figurative Language:
Page 678; lines 667 – 669; “…the Sirens will sing his mind
away on their sweet meadow lolling.
There are bones of dead men rotting in a pile beside them and flayed
skin shrivel around the spot.” Imagery
Lisbeth L. , Katherine, Jason – Stage Right
Helios the Sun God
Plot – Start the story from Tiresias and Circe's prophecies
Milan L., Jose,
Julia, Yessenia – first bookcase
Land of the Dead
Melanie, Salamata, David, Tymiah – clock
The Cyclops
Taylor, Alejandra, Adolfo – by the fourth bookcase
Scylla and Charybdis
Julian, Samantha, Cierra, Hilaryd – bear poster
The Sirens
Takai, Makenna, Idalia, Jasmine - third window
The Lotus Eaters
