Literature: Homer's The Odyssey
Writing: Narrative Letter or Blog post
Vocabulary: No vocabulary this week
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due Monday
- Prepare for a NOTEBOOK quiz on Tuesday, Nov. 22
- Prepare your drafts for submission on http://www.turnitin.com/ on Monday.
Monday
1. Go to the library to submit drafts of the Odyssey project to http://www.turnitin.com/.
2. Prepare for a notebook quiz.
Tuesday
Take a notebook quiz.
Friday, November 18, 2011
MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
Click on the link below to learn more about proper citation.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/
Friday, November 11, 2011
Week #13 Nov. 14-18, 2011
Literature: Homer's The Odyssey
Writing: The Odyssey Project - a narrative letter or blog post -
Vocabulary: Week #6 - azure, bare, brim, courier, craft, crane, crimson, deflect, dislodge, downcast, entrails, expel, flutter, impostor, infuse, jostle, lithe, lurch, pliant, rally, revelry, taut, thunderstruck, tremulous, underhanded
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due every Monday
- Vocabulary worksheet - due Monday, 11/14
- Five (5) sets of notes (taken from book article, magazine article, web article, etc.) - due Wednesday, 11/16 (Check for completion today.)
- Narrative letter or blog post draft - due Thursday 11/15 (before one-on-one conference on Friday)
- Narrative letter or blog post - due 11/21 on http://www.turnitin.com/ (We will do the submission together as a class and take a trip to the library. You should have an electronic copy as well as a hard copy of your letter or blog post with you on this day. You can email the assignment to your own email, so that it will be easy to access it from the library. DO NOT SUBMIT THE ASSIGNMENT FROM HOME.)
NOTE: A reading schedule will be given on Tuesday for home reading.
Activities
Monday
1. Read an article on plagiarism (provided by Mr. C.). Have a small or big group dialogue on the issue of plagiarism. (20 minutes)
2. Take a 25 minute test on The Odyssey.
Tuesday
1. Mr. C. will come and visit us in the classroom, and talk about plagiarism.
2. Depending on how long we will spend on plagiarism, if we have time, we will continue reading. Other readings will be assigned at home.
Wednesday
1. Continue reading for the first half of the class period.
2. Write a draft of the narrative letter or blog post while I call students to present their five (5) sets of notes to me for check-up.
Thursday
1. Prepare for a reading check according to reading schedule.
2. Present draft of narrative letter or blog post.
Friday
1. Prepare a redaing check according on reading schedule.
2. Have a one-on-one conference with about your draft to prepare it for the final draft.
Writing: The Odyssey Project - a narrative letter or blog post -
Vocabulary: Week #6 - azure, bare, brim, courier, craft, crane, crimson, deflect, dislodge, downcast, entrails, expel, flutter, impostor, infuse, jostle, lithe, lurch, pliant, rally, revelry, taut, thunderstruck, tremulous, underhanded
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due every Monday
- Vocabulary worksheet - due Monday, 11/14
- Five (5) sets of notes (taken from book article, magazine article, web article, etc.) - due Wednesday, 11/16 (Check for completion today.)
- Narrative letter or blog post draft - due Thursday 11/15 (before one-on-one conference on Friday)
- Narrative letter or blog post - due 11/21 on http://www.turnitin.com/ (We will do the submission together as a class and take a trip to the library. You should have an electronic copy as well as a hard copy of your letter or blog post with you on this day. You can email the assignment to your own email, so that it will be easy to access it from the library. DO NOT SUBMIT THE ASSIGNMENT FROM HOME.)
NOTE: A reading schedule will be given on Tuesday for home reading.
Activities
Monday
1. Read an article on plagiarism (provided by Mr. C.). Have a small or big group dialogue on the issue of plagiarism. (20 minutes)
2. Take a 25 minute test on The Odyssey.
Tuesday
1. Mr. C. will come and visit us in the classroom, and talk about plagiarism.
2. Depending on how long we will spend on plagiarism, if we have time, we will continue reading. Other readings will be assigned at home.
Wednesday
1. Continue reading for the first half of the class period.
2. Write a draft of the narrative letter or blog post while I call students to present their five (5) sets of notes to me for check-up.
Thursday
1. Prepare for a reading check according to reading schedule.
2. Present draft of narrative letter or blog post.
Friday
1. Prepare a redaing check according on reading schedule.
2. Have a one-on-one conference with about your draft to prepare it for the final draft.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Week #12 November 7-11, 2011
Literature: Homer's The Odyssey
Writing/Grammar: sentences, appositive and verbals
Vocabulary: Odyssey Week 5 - trance, bewitch, lurk, chaos, peril, quest, commandeer, throng, rubbish, aft, contemptible, aloof, defy, fraud, hone, incredulity, jest, lavish, justification, murmur, marvel, meddle, rash, reek, revulsion
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due on Monday
- Odyssey "Who's who?" - due: on the day of the 3rd notebook quiz (TBA- soon)
- Odyssey essay - due on http://www.turnitin.com/ on TBA
http://www.greeka.com/ionian/ithaca/ithaca-myths/odysseus.htm
Activities
Monday
1. Take Test #11 on week #4 vocabulary and prepositional phrases.
2. Continue reading and annotating The Odyssey.
Tuesday
Continue reading and annotating The Odyssey.
Wednesday
Take a short adjective and adverb prepositional phrase test.
Thursday and Friday
Work in the library on a project.
Writing/Grammar: sentences, appositive and verbals
Vocabulary: Odyssey Week 5 - trance, bewitch, lurk, chaos, peril, quest, commandeer, throng, rubbish, aft, contemptible, aloof, defy, fraud, hone, incredulity, jest, lavish, justification, murmur, marvel, meddle, rash, reek, revulsion
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due on Monday
- Odyssey "Who's who?" - due: on the day of the 3rd notebook quiz (TBA- soon)
- Odyssey essay - due on http://www.turnitin.com/ on TBA
http://www.greeka.com/ionian/ithaca/ithaca-myths/odysseus.htm
Activities
Monday
1. Take Test #11 on week #4 vocabulary and prepositional phrases.
2. Continue reading and annotating The Odyssey.
Tuesday
Continue reading and annotating The Odyssey.
Wednesday
Take a short adjective and adverb prepositional phrase test.
Thursday and Friday
Work in the library on a project.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Week #11 Oct. 31-Nov.4, 2011
Literature: Homer's The Odyssey
Grammar: Adjective and adverb prepositional phrases
Vocabulary: Abominably, Ardor, Assuage, Atone, Avail, Beguile, Bereft, Brazen, Dire, Dwindle, Fawn, Frantic, Grapple, Implacable, Insolent, Scourge, Seethe, Skirt (v), Vile, Wrath, Bliss, Blunder, Fend, Profusion, Sage, Stately, Tidbit, Titanic, Lag, Besiege
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due every Monday
- Annotations in the packet - due daily
Activities
Monday
1. Take vocabulary quiz on week 3 words.
2. Continue to read and annotate the epic poem.
2. Continue to read and annotate the epic poem.
Grammar: Adjective and adverb prepositional phrases
Vocabulary: Abominably, Ardor, Assuage, Atone, Avail, Beguile, Bereft, Brazen, Dire, Dwindle, Fawn, Frantic, Grapple, Implacable, Insolent, Scourge, Seethe, Skirt (v), Vile, Wrath, Bliss, Blunder, Fend, Profusion, Sage, Stately, Tidbit, Titanic, Lag, Besiege
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due every Monday
- Annotations in the packet - due daily
Activities
Monday
1. Take vocabulary quiz on week 3 words.
2. Continue to read and annotate the epic poem.
- epic hero qualities
- epic formula
- epic plot
- epithet
- epic simile (Homeric)
- figurative language
- imagery
- details/description
- characterization
2. Continue to read and annotate the epic poem.
- epic hero qualities
- epic formula
- epic plot
- epithet
- epic simile (Homeric)
- figurative language
- imagery
- details/description
- characterization
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Week #10 October 24-28, 2011
Literature: Homer's The Odyssey
Writing/Grammar: phrases, sentence structure, clauses, figurative language
Vocabulary: adversity, desolate, douse, exile, forlorn, formidable, immortal, mandate, ornate, pine, plunder, pummel, versatile,maelstrom, avail, ardor, dwindle, tumult, travail, flay, dire, blanch, din, heft, implacable
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - Due Monday
- Annotations - due Daily
PROJECT IDEA: Interactive Odyssey MAP making. (If you have ideas how to make reading of The Odyssey more interesting, let Mrs. T. know. She will give extra credit to whoever will come up with a unique idea that is academic, time-friendly, and creator-friendly.)
http://www.classics.upenn.edu/myth/php/homer/index.php?page=odymap
http://library.thinkquest.org/19300/data/Odyssey/voyage1.htm
http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110tech/iliad.html
http://www.sigmabooks.gr/maps_en_enArgoEur.html
Activities
Monday
1. Take a vocabulary quiz, and notebook quiz #2.
2. Finish the sentence stories, and transfer draft to posters.
Tuesday- Friday
1. Read and annotate The Odyssey.
2. Take sporadic reading checks.
3. Write thoughts about The Odyssey on paper/in binder notes consistently.
4. Be on the look-out for literary techniques/styles, character changes/motives, heroic qualities, hubris, hamartia, etc.
Writing/Grammar: phrases, sentence structure, clauses, figurative language
Vocabulary: adversity, desolate, douse, exile, forlorn, formidable, immortal, mandate, ornate, pine, plunder, pummel, versatile,maelstrom, avail, ardor, dwindle, tumult, travail, flay, dire, blanch, din, heft, implacable
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - Due Monday
- Annotations - due Daily
PROJECT IDEA: Interactive Odyssey MAP making. (If you have ideas how to make reading of The Odyssey more interesting, let Mrs. T. know. She will give extra credit to whoever will come up with a unique idea that is academic, time-friendly, and creator-friendly.)
http://www.classics.upenn.edu/myth/php/homer/index.php?page=odymap
http://library.thinkquest.org/19300/data/Odyssey/voyage1.htm
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/fajardo/teaching/eng120/odyjour.htm - Order of Odysseus’s journey
http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110tech/iliad.html
http://www.sigmabooks.gr/maps_en_enArgoEur.html
Activities
Monday
1. Take a vocabulary quiz, and notebook quiz #2.
2. Finish the sentence stories, and transfer draft to posters.
Tuesday- Friday
1. Read and annotate The Odyssey.
2. Take sporadic reading checks.
3. Write thoughts about The Odyssey on paper/in binder notes consistently.
4. Be on the look-out for literary techniques/styles, character changes/motives, heroic qualities, hubris, hamartia, etc.
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