E. Quinson

Room D-201

9H period 5

 

Monday, December 1, 2008

SWBAT:  outline events in The Iliad for future reference. 

DO NOW:  Prepare to watch out last myth presentation.

DEVELOPMENT:

  1. Last presentation.
  2. Assign outline activity:
    1. In pairs, students are to outline the whole Iliad. 
    2. They will have today and tomorrow. 
    3. Include all characters, with short descriptions, and importance to the plot, and all major events.
  3. Discussion Questions:
    1. What started the war? 
    2. Judgment of Paris – look up on line
    3. What do we learn about Ulysses not wanting to go to war?
    4. What do we learn about Achilles not wanting to go to war?  -- also remember the story about Thetis dipping Achilles in the river Styx by the heel to protect him.  Only his heel is vulnerable!
    5. Which humans were on which side?
    6. How long did the war last?
    7. What was the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles?
    8. How does Thetis involve the gods?  What does she get Jupiter to do?
    9. Why is this quarrel important?
    10. Which gods and goddesses were on which side?
    11. Who is Patroclus
    12. What is his story?
  4. Review/summarize.

H.W.:  1.  Blog it!  2.  Work on outline?  3.  Read Edith Hamilton, pp. 202-219, “The Adventures of Odysseus.”

 

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

SWBAT:  continue work on outline of The Iliad

DO NOW:  Write an entry:  Discuss the importance of Jealousy in the story of The Iliad.

DEVELOPMENT:

1.      Continue work on outline.

2.      Discussion Questions:

    1. Don’t forget that Hector gets Achilles’ armor
    2. What is Achilles’ story?
    3. His new armor made by Vulcan
    4. How he kills Hector and disgraces the body
    5. How does Priam get Achilles to give the body of Hector back?
    6. How did Achilles die?
    7. Who got his armor?  Why?
    8. What is so important about the arrows of Hercules?
    9. How did Paris die?
    10. Oenome his first or ex-wfie?
    11. Whose idea was the Trojan Horse?
    12. Be ware of Greeks bearing gifts!
    13. How did Priam die?
    14. Who was Cassandra?  What was her punishment?  Why?
    15. What happened to Helen?
    16. What happened to Agamemnon and to his wife Clytemnestra?
  1. If time allows, we will have a group share out. 
  2. Review/summarize.
  3. Turn in outlines.

H.W.:  1.  Read “The Adventures of Ulysses,” and “The Fate of the Suitors” pp 188-205, chapters 29 and 30 in Bullfinch’s Mythology.  2.  Blog it!

 

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

SWBAT:  discuss the “exposition” or necessary background information on The Odyssey.

DO NOW:  Pop Quiz? or writer’s notebook entry:  why would Homer decide, after The Iliad to tell the story of one man wandering all over the Mediterranean, trying to get home?

DEVELOPMENT:

  1. Distribute map of Odysseus’ wanderings. 
  2. Explain that we have read the “story” but now we will read the poem in the textbook. 
  3. Let’s review the events that we have read about.  We are not going to read the whole poem, but only portions.  Still, it is important to figure out who the whole story goes:  What happens with:
    1. The Lotus Eaters?
    2. The Cyclops – they kind of remind me of fleshlumpeaters from the BFG

                                                               i.      Polyphemus

    1. Aeolus

                                                               i.      From which we get the Aeolian Harp

    1. The Laestrygonians (barbarous)
    2. Circe

                                                               i.      Powerful magician

                                                             ii.      Turns men into beasts

                                                            iii.      Turns Ulysses’ men into pigs

                                                           iv.      Circe is such a great hostess that Ulysses forgets his home.

    1. The Sirens
    2. Scylla and Charybdis
    3. The Island of Thrinaka

                                                               i.      All of Ulysses remaining men DIE!!!      He can only cling to a raft.

    1. Calypso – sea nymph

                                                               i.      Gave him up because of Zeus

                                                             ii.      (Mentor was an advisor to Odysseus’s family – he is really Minerva, Athena, in disguise…..)

  1. If time allows, we may begin read aloud in textbook. 
  2. Group share/review.

H.W.:  1. Blog it!

 

Thursday, December 4, 2008

SWBAT:  discuss the story within a story and begin the discussion of the heroic qualities Odysseus will need to get home. 

DO NOW:  Write an entry:  Do you admire Odysseus?  Why or why not?   

DEVELOPMENT:

  1. Begin discussion of homework and do now entries. 
  2. Ask in what way is Odysseus’s world similar to ours?  Temptations!
    1. The Lotus Eaters could represent drugs?
  3. Begin read aloud of “The Cyclops”
  4. What qualities does Odysseus display when he speaks to the Cyclops?  P. 989?
  5. Analyze the Cyclops speech lines 218-223.  What problem will this present for Odysseus and his men?  --They don’t share a common religion, culture, values
  6. When Polyphemus is hurt, and the other Cyclopes come running, what questions do they ask? 
  7. Review/summarize.

H.W.:  1.  Finish reading “The Cyclopes”  to p. 999.  2.  Blot it!  First paraphrase Polyphemus’ prayer to Poseidon, then explain the significance, based on what you know from having pre-read the basic plot.  Also, what mysterious rock in the Phaecian’s harbor does this explain???

 

Friday, December 5, 2008

SWBAT:  read and discuss Odysseus’ visit to the land of the dead! 

DO NOW:  Write an entry in your w.n.:  what image most sticks in your mind from your visit with the Cyclopes?

DEVELOPMENT:

  1. Discuss homework entry:  he has foretold the future!  What sin or error has Odysseus made in annoying Cyclops?  What problems is this going to cause?  What lessons can we learn from this?
  2. Review the story in Bullfinch’s Mythology about Circe.  Hades wasn’t mentioned.  Why?
  3. Whom does he need to find in the Land of the Dead?  Why?  Tiresias who will give him advice on? 
  4. Notice that as Odysseus’ voyage continues, the language and the setting become more dramatic.
  5. Discussion will include:
    1. Look at lines 539-541.  Paraphrase.  What exactly has happened here?
    2. Notice that they are preparing for holy sacrifice.
    3. Who appears dead?  What is Odysseus’ reaction?

                                                               i.      Elpenor

                                                             ii.      His mother

    1. Paraphrase Tiresias’s speech  -- and how it also foretells Odysseus’ troubled journey.

H.W.:  1.  Finish reading “The Land of the Dead” p 1004.  2.  Blog it!   Based on Tiresias’ prediction, which heroic qualities will Odysseus need to get through his journey? 

 

Monday, December 8, 2008

SWBAT:  read and analyze the dangers presented by the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis.

DO NOW:  Write an entry:    What difficulties does Tiresias predict for the journey to come?  Why would Odysseus continue, despite these grim prophecies?

DEVELOPMENT:

  1. Disucss H.W. and DO Now entries.
  2. Begin read aloud of Sirens. 
    1. Why does Odysseus tell his men what he plans?   What does this say about him as a leader?
    2. Why does Odysseus need to hear the Sirens?
    3. What is the lure of the song of the sirens?
    4. What quality gets Odysseus through this journey?
  1. Read aloud “Scylla and Charybdis”
    1. Paraphrase the first stanza.  What do you envision?  How could you draw or film this?
    2. Why does Odysseus decide to go closer to Scylla?
    3. How do they get through this trouble?
  1. Summarize/review.

H.W.:  1. Read  to. P. 1010 if we have not done so in class.  2.  Blog it!  What heroic quality does Odysseus show in lines 823-825.  How does this also make him human?

 

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

SWBAT:  discuss “The Cattle of the Sun God”

DO NOW:  Write an entry: what did Tiresias tell him about these cattle?

DEVELOPMENT:

  1. Begin read aloud.
  2. Discussion questions will include:
    1. Explain the instructions Odysseus gives his men, lines 838-840.
    2. What conflict arises from the crew’s hunger?
    3. Eurylochus wants to choose his own death.  What does this say?  He has despaired, he cannot be a true hero.  True heroes never ultimately despair.
    4. How is Odysseus not heroic in lines 899-902?  On the other hand, he is acknowledging that the gods control him and the whole wide world.
    5. What speech does Helios (the sun!) make?
    6. What reply does Zeus make?
    7. Why does Odysseus have to go back through Charybdis?
  3. Group share/review.

H.W.:  1.  Read  to p. 1017.  2.  Blog it!  How does Eurylochus persuade the men to kill the cattle.  Would you have done the same?  Do the members of the crew deserve the punishment they receive for disobeying Odysseus and killing the cattle?

 

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

SWBAT:  discuss “Twenty years gone, and I am back again…”

DO NOW:  Write an entry in your writer’s notebook:  Think about your blog and your classmates blogs from last night:  how do present-day ideas of justice differ from those we have seen in The Odyssey?

DEVELOPMENT:

  1. After re-reading, review the homework entry, perhaps in groups, or pair share?:
    1. How Odysseus explains the change in his appearance
    2. Telemachus’ response to his father in lines 1089-1092.  What is his concern?
    3. Athena’s role in Odysseus’ plan.
    4. The events of Odysseus’ reunion with Telemachus.
  1. New question:  How does Odysseus tell his son to respond if the suitors “practice shots” on Odysseus?  What conflict is this likely to cause? 
  2. Read aloud “Argus”
  3. Discussion questions:
    1. Summarize Argus’ situation since Odysseus’ departure?
    2. What is Argus’ relationship to Odysseus?
    3. What happened to Argus after he recognized Odysseus?
    4. What is the purpose of this episode?
  1. Read aloud “The Suitors”
  2. Discussion questions may include: 
    1. Lines 1261-1264 – how is Telemachus feeling?  How does this develop his character for the reader?
    2. Summarize what Penelope tells Odysseus.  How has she demonstrated her loyalty?
  1. Review/summarize.

H.W.:  1.  Finish reading “The Suitors – The Challenge” pp.  1029-1037.  2.  Blog it!  How does Penelope feel about the suitors in her house?  How might these feelings differ from Odysseus’ feelings?  Why doesn’t Odysseus reveal himself at once t his wife?  Is it wrong for Odysseus to deceive his wife? 

 

Thursday, December 11, 2008

SWBAT:  read and discuss Odysseus’ Revenge! 

DEVELOPMENT:

  1. Discuss homework entry:  How does Penelope feel about the suitors in her house?  How might these feelings differ from Odysseus’ feelings?  Why doesn’t Odysseus reveal himself at once t his wife?  Is it wrong for Odysseus to deceive his wife?
  2. Discuss “The Challenge”
    1. What does Odysseus mean by it is time to cook their lordships mutton?
  1. Define and discuss epic simile.
    1. Look at example, lines 1290-1297.
  1. Begin read aloud of “Odysseus’ Revenge”
    1. What act begins Odysseus’ revenge on the suitors?
    2. What happens to Antinous?
    3. What color imagery appears? 
    4. What plea does Eurymachus make to Odysseus?
    5. What does Telemachus want to bring to his father to help him fight the suitors?
    6. Look for epic similes.
  1. Review/summarize.

H.W.:  1.  Finish reading Odysseus’ Revenge pp. 1037 – 1046.  2.  Write two pages in your writer’s notebook: Do you think Odysseus’ revenge is justified?  Even though some suitors have been crueler than others, why does Odysseus take equal revenge on all of them?  How do you think the problem of the suitors should have been handled?  Why?

 

Friday, December 12, 2008

SWBAT:  review the end of The Odyssey.

DO NOW:  Write an entry:    Are Odysseus’ actions in dealing with the suitors consistent with his actions in earlier episodes of the epic?  Explain. 

DEVELOPMENT:

  1. Discuss H.W. and DO Now entries.
  2. Discussion Questions:
    1. What planning does Odysseus do before battling the suitors?  How does this planning help him defeat his opponents?
    2. What is Penelope’s test and how does Odysseus pass it?
    3. Why does Penelope feel the need to test Odysseus, even though he has abandoned his disguise?  Is the mood after the test happy?  Explain.
    4. Why do you think contemporary readers still relate to the characters and events in the Odyssey?
    5. Literary elements:

                                                               i.      What imagery involving sight, sound and movement does Homer include in lines 1061-1065?

                                                             ii.      To what sense do the images in Antinous’ death appeal, lines 1412-1425.

                                                            iii.      What is the epic simile in lines 1613-1624?  Why is this a powerful image with which to end the epic?

  1. Summarize/review.

H.W.:  1. Review for test Friday.

 

Monday, December 15, 2008

SWBAT:  review for test tomorrow on Greek Gods and Goddesses and The Odyssey

DO NOW:  Review your list of the Gods and their Greek and Roman names.

DEVELOPMENT:

  1. Review test format/Answer questions.

H.W.:  1.  Review for test tomorrow.

 

Tuesday, December 16, 2008  -- in class test on Greek Gods and Goddesses and The Odyssesy

 

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 – in class essay on The Iliad, The Odyssey, and “Perseus”

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