DSW Choose 5 new vocabulary words. Create sentences to depict the meaning of your 5 new words. Due to the fact that she lost her voice, Miss V is feeling quite afflicted. Students, please be virtuous in your behavior today. Work hard and keep calm. She is unable to create a din in the classroom. Don’t worry, though. She was able to wield today’s lesson with craft and care.
Today, we will watch a few videos to help us process The Odyssey. Then, you will have time to read to yourselves, reading about Odysseus’ adventure with the Cyclops. We will end class with a video analysis of The Odyssey.
Processing The Odyssey
Open up your books!Open up your books! Read the adventure of The Cyclops. Pg While reading, complete your double entry journal.
Double Entry JournalDouble Entry Journal Remember your focus – the questions at the top of your handout: | Is Odysseus a hero or a zero? | Who faces greater challenges: Penelope, Telemachus, or Odysseus? || Who is the character with the most redeeming qualities? Record passages that support your perspective and opinion towards the characters.
Example 1. “Yet, it is true, each day I long for home, long for the sight of home…” (893). 1. This shows one of Odysseus’s challenges that he must face. He misses home and longs for his family. 2. “I drove them, all three wailing, to the ships, tied them down under their rowing benches…” (pg. 898). 2. Odysseus has many of his own challenges to face and he has to take care of his fellow soldiers.