The Odyssey

We will finish reading The Odyssey during the week of  January 5.  Please review the calendar found in Google Classroom for upcoming reading assignments, tests, writing prompts, and the marking period  assessment.

The Odyssey

Final Research Paper - Due Monday, December 15.

The following are the books we will be reading from The Odyssey.  The reading due dates will be announced in class.

Book I --  "A Goddess Intervenes" (Pages 1-15)  Book I is due on Thursday, December 11 
Book V -- "Sweet Nymph and Open Sea" (Pages 81-95) Book V is due on Tuesday, December 16
Book IX -- "New Coasts and Poseidon's Son" (Pages 145-161) Book IX is due on Thursday, December 18
Book X -- "The Grace of the Witch"  (Pages 165-182) Book X is due on Monday, December 22
Book XI -- "A Gathering of Shades"  (Pages 185-206)
Book XII -- "Sea Perils and Defeat" (Pages 209-225)

Take notes as you are reading and complete any study guides provided to you in class.

The Odyssey Resources:

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 

The following website also provides a summary of what happens in each book.  It provides a chronology of The Odyssey and a thematic structure of Odysseus' wanderings:

http://www.temple.edu/classics/odysseyho/index.html


Learn about ancient Greece (Great Interactive Website):
 http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/home.html

The Research Paper

We will continue to work on the research paper the week of November 24 and the week of December 1. A rough draft will be completed during the week of December 1.  Once the rough draft is completed, you will have a week to work on editing and revising the rough draft in preparation for turning in your final draft to www.turnitin.com.  The due date for the final draft will be announced in class.

The week of December 8 we will begin studying Homer and The Odyssey.

The Research Paper

Please refer to our Google Classroom for all of the handouts and information pertaining to the research paper and research paper process.  We will be working on the research paper until Thanksgiving break.

WAR HORSE

This week we will begin the movie War Horse.

Do not forget the following due dates:

Articles and summary/connection paragraphs for Khadra novel are due Monday, Oct. 27.
Cultural Analysis for Khadra novel due Wednesday, Oct. 29.

All Quiet on the Western Front End Test -- Wednesday, October 15 (Quote Section) and Thursday, October 16 (Objective Section)

Yasmina Khadra novel -- We will discuss the project portion of the marking period end assessment during the week of October 20.  However, make sure you have been reading the novel!  Note the new due dates for the marking period assessment -- articles with paragraphs are due Monday, Oct. 27 and cultural analysis is due Wed., Oct. 29.

We will be doing some war poetry and viewing the film War Horse.  As this will close our unit of war literature, you will be writing a thesis paper focusing on the works studied this marking period.  However, we will most likely not begin this paper until the end of October/the beginning of November.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Finish All Quiet on the Western Front for Wednesday, Oct. 8.

Once you are done reading the novel, you should have a bit of "free-time" at home to work on reading and completing the project for your Yasmina Khadra novel.  The assignment and final due date is posted under the ABOUT section of google classroom.