Welcome back! Hope you all had a great winter break. You will be given a January calendar when we return back to school on January 2, 2013. The month of January goes very quickly and exams begin on Tuesday, January 22. I will discuss the exam process with you in class and will provide you with a study guide sheet to help ease some of the anxiety you may have for your first ever high school English mid-term examination. Upon our return, you will viewing O Brother, Where Art Thou? This film is connected to The Odyssey in so many ways. It will be up to you to make the connections and fill out the viewing guide I will provide to you prior to our viewing of the film. You will also be preparing for a group presentation for a mythology assignment I will be assigning you. I will provide you with the necessary details in class. I will also be giving you plenty of time in class to prepare as a group on this presentation. The calendar will list all of the due dates for January.
Reminder: Vocabulary Unit Test # 3 will be given on Monday, January 14. Prepare for it in advance.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Saturday, December 8, 2012
The Odyssey-Week of December 17
The Odyssey Reading Assignments:
Book XXI & XXII (21 & 22) due Monday, December 17
*Pick out a passage from Book XXI or Book XXII - make sure it is significant, descriptive, has great word choice, etc. -- Type it and make copies for classmates...remember how I explained to do this in class. Be sure to include the book number and line numbers. Example: (XXI. 19-29)
End Test for The Odyssey:
Wednesday, December 18
The Odyssey websites:
Use this website to get a short version or a longer version of what happens in the books that you are finding difficult to understand and also to get a brief summary of the books we will not be reading in The Odyssey:
http://www.mythweb.com/odyssey/index.html
Use this website to gain a better understanding of the epic, the important themes and events found in each book, and some significant quotes from the epic:
http://www.leasttern.com/HighSchool/odyssey/OdysseySG.html
Learn about ancient Greece (Great Interactive Website):
http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/home.html
Book XXI & XXII (21 & 22) due Monday, December 17
*Pick out a passage from Book XXI or Book XXII - make sure it is significant, descriptive, has great word choice, etc. -- Type it and make copies for classmates...remember how I explained to do this in class. Be sure to include the book number and line numbers. Example: (XXI. 19-29)
End Test for The Odyssey:
Wednesday, December 18
The Odyssey websites:
Use this website to get a short version or a longer version of what happens in the books that you are finding difficult to understand and also to get a brief summary of the books we will not be reading in The Odyssey:
http://www.mythweb.com/odyssey/index.html
Use this website to gain a better understanding of the epic, the important themes and events found in each book, and some significant quotes from the epic:
http://www.leasttern.com/HighSchool/odyssey/OdysseySG.html
Learn about ancient Greece (Great Interactive Website):
http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/home.html
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