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2.19.20

2/19/2020

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Periods 1, 3, 5: 
Today you are visiting your counselors halfway through the period. First lets get a few things accomplished and then you can head out. 
  • Silent read and annotate to finish your Odyssey packets for 20 min. Make sure that your annotations are good. 
  • Following that you have 10 min. to discuss your thoughts and findings, as well as your favorite god, goddess, or monster (you may also choose an incident). Homework is to look up an article based on that reality: drug abuse, alcoholism, democracy, prejudice (especially of gender, race, religion, economic class).
  • Work on your root list. You do not need your worksheets. I want you to concentrate on roots only and the words that you think of that help you remember them. On this next test 80 out of 100 are roots. 
  • Go sit by your counselors door and wait in line to see your counselor- even if you forgot your card. When you are finished come back to class and work on any work you have yet to complete or work on finding an article on your phone. 
    • Times to leave: P1 - 9:25, P3 - 11:25, P5 - 1:50.
  • Homework: Find and annotate (printed out with annotations or notes and a work cited on your own paper) an article related to the issues Odysseus has to fight in the Odyssey. Bring it with you on Friday to work together on an essay in class.
Roots List 1-20
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An Epic Journey

2/5/2020

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The plan: everyday we will read another section of the Odyssey and discuss what it represents and how it affects us still today. Students will apply that to writing their own story and to finding historical articles or current events that relate to the story.

Writing: This quarter we are in the deep end on a journey through great writing and the great allusions, symbols, history, psychology, plotting, and grammar that goes with it. We will be annotating the Odyssey and watching movies as an example, then writing our own epic to practice. 
Odyssey packet-
Introduction and Conclusion
4 paragraphs:
1) What does god/goddess/monster represent
2) Compare to real life article
3) What does 2nd god/goddess/monster represent
4) Compare to real life article
work cited
annotated story
2 annotated articles.
Extra credit: typed paragraphs and work cited.
Epic due--End of the Quarter:
5 pages typed- unless other project

Epic Outline:
Cover
Map
*Optional- dedication page
*Optional- Prologue/Prophecy

Exposition- "Normal" life, typically isolation
Location #1- arrival, meeting, confrontation, escape-Typically a "calling"
Location #2- arrival, meeting, confrontation, escape- Typically journey to a special location
Location #3- arrival, meeting, confrontation, escape- Typically a battle for dominance
Location #4- arrival, meeting, confrontation, escape- Typically a battle to death/rebirth
*Optional- homecoming
Back cover with blurb :)
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