I’m sorry I couldn’t be in class on Tuesday (I was sick) and Wednesday (I was helping finish the administration of the PSAT). On Tuesday, students were supposed to have read Part 1 of the Penelopiad and completed the reading guide: The Penelopiad – Penelope        The Penelopiad Part 1 Reading Guide

Today, we discussed the conclusion to the Odyssey and the first part of the Penelopiad. For homework, students needed to read the second part of the Penelopiad and complete that reading guide: The Penelopiad – The Maids       The Penelopiad Part 2 Reading Guide

We also talked about your test over the Odyssey on Monday. It will be all multiple choice critical reading, covering both passages that we read in class and passages from or about the Odyssey that you have not read before. The best way for you to study is to make sure that you are familiar with the PowerPoint notes that we went over in class – that’s the kind of analysis you will be expected to do.

Because we’re taking the Odyssey test on Monday, your Dracula 4 vocab quiz will be a daily grade pop quiz some time next week. You will be able to use your list, but you will have only 30 minutes (not the whole class period).

Today students took their Dracula 3 vocabulary quiz. Afterwards, they worked on reading the rest of the Odyssey (pages here: The Odyssey Textbook – Part 2) and completing this reading guide (The Odyssey – Part 2 (Homecoming) Reading Guide), due on Tuesday.

As a reminder, if you missed your vocabulary quiz on Monday, you need to make it up on Friday during lunch. And if you want to order books (Dracula, The Hot Zone, and The Joy Luck Club), tomorrow is the last day to do so!

Today in class we talked about Dracula list 3 vocabulary words. Please make sure that you do your practice quiz sometime between now and Monday (it’s for a grade).

We also read Book 11 of the Odyssey (the Underworld) and talked about it using this PowerPoint: The Odyssey Book 11

Homework for tonight is to read Book 12 from this PDF (1230-1236): The Odyssey Textbook – Part 1

Write a one-page summary of Book 12 and have it ready to turn in tomorrow. During tomorrow’s class, we will watch a portion of the film version of the Odyssey. You are welcome to bring a snack if you would like! 🙂

We read the Circe chapter of the Odyssey (Book 10) and talked about it using the following PowerPoint today: Book 10

Homework was to complete PIE paragraph #3: PIE Paragraph 3

We continued looking into Book 9 of the Odyssey, using this PowerPoint: The Odyssey Book 9

Students then took a reading quiz over the short story “Blindness.” If you were absent, please come Friday during lunch to make it up.

Homework for tonight was to complete the second PIE paragraph: PIE Paragraph 2

I’m sorry for the late posting! I know I typed up a post for Monday, but I must not have hit “publish.”

At any rate, on Monday we took our vocabulary quiz over Dracula 2 words. If you were absent, please come in on Friday to make it up. Afterwards, students read the cyclops chapter from the Odyssey (Book 9) and then a short story of the same episode told from the cyclops’ perspective.

We went over the words for Monday’s vocabulary quiz today in class. Homework was to complete the practice quiz and try doing some Vocabulary.com over the weekend.

We also started writing our first PIE paragraph over the Calypso episode of the Odyssey. Here’s the video of that song, and here is an electronic copy of that assignment: PIE Paragraph 1

We started reading the Odyssey today! Here are the PowerPoints we used to discuss it, in case you were absent: Book 1 Discussion and The Odyssey Book 5

No homework tonight, but I did tell you about two opportunities to boost your grade: 1) the Goodreads reviews of I Am Malala and The Alchemist and the Practice PSAT. You must have those done and ready to turn in to me on Monday if you want extra credit – if you bring them on Tuesday, it will be too late.