English 9 B
Week One November 28- December 2
English 9 A & B 2nd Tirmester
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Syllabus
Seating chart & Procedures:
NO FOOD only Water  Please bring water
Hand Out Books
Thought for the Day…
Vocabulary 13 quiz Friday
The Odyssey: Focus characterization read student sample
Begin Reading and note taking pages 887-891 focus terms
& pre-story information exposition
 Partner read 890-891 & share notes (10 minutes)
 Start CD 21 Book 1
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Correct vocabulary 13
Type notes Cornell Note style
Read The Odyssey 886- 893
Read to page 915
Cornell Note Taking Odysseus
CCR Key Ideas 1,2,&3
Page 88
Homer
Author of The Iliad and The Odyssey , blind, Greece 800BC
Epic
Long narrative poem see top of page 890
Odyssey
3 plot elements: Trojan War, Odysseus as a hero, Gods
interference
Helen
Most beautiful woman in the world, kidnapped from Spartans, King Menelaus,
who sent many people to save Helen, Odysseus being the last
The Iliad and
The Odyssey
“perhaps the greatest masterpiece in epic form” (887).
Odysseus
Has wife Penelope, son Telemachus, left Troy with 720 men,
12 ships: “special qualities guile, ingenious tricks”(888).
Note Taking…. Book One, Nine
Muse
Goddess of Poetry
Odysseus’s
Character
Book Nine lines 7,17, 24-25 page 896
Calypso
Held him captive… (895).
Lotus
Eaters
Honeyed plant, dangerous, forget homeland if eaten page
887
Cyclopes
Giants, savage, no tribal ways, indifferent, lawless
Prodigious Page 899 line (87-92) (enormous, huge
man
Odysseus
weakness
“I wished to see the caveman…”
Book 9
Summarize…
Theme
Copy definition on page 926 (Greek literature is concerned
with fate and free will)
Agenda Wednesday 11-30-11 English 9
A&B
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Start with Formative Assessment~writing
Class discussion
Read and take notes through Book 10
Specific term definitions Theme: Fate & Free Will
HW read Book 12 summarize each Book as you read
Assessment Wednesday 11-30-11
 What do you know about Greek myths?
 Define Epic hero.
 Explain what you know about the character
Odysseus.
 How should a formal essay look? Describe what you
would expect to see on a grading rubric.
English A & B Thursday December 1st
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CCW text Types and purposes 3 D
precise words, details, vivid picture of events
AGENDA:
Journal Write One Essay Starter:
Use this starter and write a full page:
Or ( elevate your writing, get creative and develop a grabber that has
the same meaning in your own special way; VOICE)
 One person who may not be a epic hero but a hero in my eyes
is____________. The reason I believe this because …
 WHY? WHY? WHY? Example Example Example
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 Go to Library to select a biography of choice for free reading
 Review the vocabulary words: 4 groups and ZONK short game
 Review the notes to date
 Read to end of The Odyssey