Grade 9 Enriched English
Active reading and writing process: annotation
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–reading with a critical eye
Think about How and why you read
Learning to read is crucial to learning how to write
“Have good sentences in your ears” --- poet Jane Kenyon
Working with idea, handling ideas of others and presenting your own
Nothing helps you learn to write like writing itself!
3% added to term work
-Short story analysis (SIFT)
-Speech analysis (SMELL)-Analyzing Rhetoric
-Literary terms challenges
-Summer reading
-Synthesis Essays (timed writing challenges)
-Vocabulary challenges
Texthow to read literature like a professor
Faurenheit 451 (connection to the chrysalids)
skills
annotation
writing
dialectical journals
Looking for Odysseus: a Rhetorical Analysis
Assignment
In the next 80 minutes of class time, you will
access the predetermined sources below in order
to prepare a multi-paragraph written response.
**NOTE: This is DOUBLE the normal allotted time
for this kind of essay response.
Using at least three of the sources, prepare a multi-paragraph response to the question below.
Many view mythology and all ancient literature as something make-believe, but what would
happen if these stories were nonfiction accounts of true events? How would our understanding of
ancient times be affected? In 2003, a radical alternative was proposed. What if Homer has been
right all along? What if this mismatch has occurred not because of geographical errors by the
poet, but because of geological changes in the landscape? Could something unprecedented have
altered the layout of these islands since the time of the Trojan War around 1200 BC? Since 2003
an interdisciplinary project team of geologists, classicists and archaeologists has been testing this
hypothesis and the results that have emerged are astonishing. We have been able to reconstruct
the former layout of these islands and it provides a compelling solution to the long-established
enigma of the location of Homer's Ithaca. Where is the Ithaca described in such detail in Homer's
Odyssey? The mystery has baffled scholars for over two millennia because Homer's descriptions
bear little resemblance to the modern island called Ithaki, one of the Ionian Islands off the coast
of western Greece. Homer himself is thought to have lived far away in Asia Minor (western
Turkey) several hundred years after the events of the Odyssey, so most experts think that he
based his poem on stories he had heard of distant Ithaki. The geographical mismatch in his
poems perhaps reflected his lack of familiarity with the Ionian Islands, together with the fact that
he was composing a poem rather than a travel guide. Odysseus' island is no longer a fantasy.
Source A: Odysseus Unbound <http://www.odysseus-unbound.org/index.html> Source B:
Odysseus Lies Here? <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/kristof-odysseus-lieshere.html?_r=0> Source C: Odyssey's End? <http://www.smithsonianmag.com/peopleplaces/Odysseys-End-The-Search-for-Ancient-Ithaca.html> Source D: Greeks discover
"Odysseus' Palace"
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/7962445/Greeks-discoverOdysseus-palace-in-Ithaca-proving-Homers-hero-was-real.html> Source E: Odysseus' Return
dated <http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25337041/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/odysseusreturn-trojan-war-dated/>
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1) Introduction to Pre-Ap Concepts
Annotation
Dialectic Journals
Masters of Metaphor (introduction to you)
Vocabulary Quizzes
Literary devices Quizzes
Grammar Workshop/ Booklets
2) Holding Out for a Hero: (Mythology)
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Epic Poem: The Odyessy (Homer)-smoop –vidoes
Epic Hero Cycle
Archetypes
Synthesis multi-paragraph response
Mythology Fashion Show Upcoming Mythology and Folklore Pageant
You will each represent a god, goddess, person, or entity at the pageant (you will
receive an entry card showing the name of the entity you are to represent). On that day,
you must be dressed for the part and must have at least one significant or symbolic
attribute. The presentation itself will consist of the most important details on the halfsheet study guide that you must provide for each member of the “audience.”
You must (1) dress for the part, (2) provide a copy of the completed half-sheet for
everyone, and (3) be able to identify the most important element of this person or figure.
At the end of the period, there will be an opportunity to elect the winner of the pageant!
Mythology Terms:
I assign the following terms for students to present in the pageant and then review for
the first mythology test. The rest of the year we continue to use the glossaries to look up
relevant terms that come up in the reading and class discussions.
Classical Mythology
Achilles
Cassandra
Elysian Fields
Adonis
Cerberus fauns
Aeneas
Ceres/Demeter
Golden Fleece
Ares/Mars
chimera
Hades
Argus
Circe
Holy Grail
Athena/Minerva
Daedalus
Hector
Atlas
amocles
Henry, John
3) The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: The Human Condition
The Chrysalid’s (novel): Literary / Expository Essay
The Lottery (short story)
The Most Dangerous Game (short Story)
Tell Tale Heart (short story-Edgar Allan Poe)
The Jade Peony (short story) Lead into next unit
4) Justice, Equality, diversity and Tolerance: (The Merchant of Venice)
The Merchant of Venice
“I have a Dream” Speech Martin Luther King (analysis)
“Ain’t I a Woman” Sojourner Truth Speech (sift and Compare)
5) Media
News articles (current)
Editorials
Advertising
*Magazine publication