If you are not really enthusiastic about your Malcolm Gladwell book, you might want to check some of these out:

Today in class we read Book 12 of the Odyssey, in which Odysseus meets the Sirens, Scylla, and Charbydis (pages 1230-6 in the textbook). Then we read one of my favorite essays of all time, “Solitude and Leadership” – your assignment was to write a paragraph analyzing whether Odysseus demonstrates that kind of leadership. (One point I want to make – you need to write your response explaining if his leadership style is consistent with the one that the author of “Solitude and Leadership” describes, not whether you believe that Odysseus is a leader or whether he is a good leader.)

If you did not get to finish, here are the electronic copies of those documents, so that you can turn your assignment in tomorrow:

textbook – part 1

Leadership and the Odyssey

Solitude and Leadership

A reminder that the videogame extra credit is due tomorrow if you would like!

And here’s the detention slip that I mentioned to some of you:

Today in class, we worked in our Malcolm Gladwell reading groups to write PIE paragraph responses to some discussion questions. Each group answered three questions. If you were absent, you need to choose two to answer and turn them in to me by Wednesday. Here are electronic copies of those questions:

Blink Discussion Questions

David and Goliath Discussion Questions

Outliers Discussion Questions

The Tipping Point Discussion Questions

What the Dog Saw Discussion Questions

As a reminder, your summary of what you have read in your Malcolm Gladwell book so far is due tomorrow!