MONDAY SEPTEMBER 16

WEEK 3 & 4 English 9 A

Monday September 16

New vocabulary #3 check study Tool Quizlet??? Norsemom

Vocabulary Due Tuesday start of hourJournal #4 Kid President: Respond to the

video clip… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwlhUcSGqgs

GRAMMAR~ define … complete for tomorrow Spider Legs: List and define parts of speech

on hand out/ in class assignment…

Monday

Definition to be used as a answer on test. Grammar is the whole system and structure

of rules for a language.

Tuesday September 17

Correct Vocabulary #3Go over 8 parts of speechGive tip to remember 8 parts of speechIntro to diagrammingA couple practice diagramsIntro to The Odyssey: Themes challenges &

character Read in class pages 887, 888 and 895

Eight parts of speech 3rd hour class notes

Interjection: shows emotion( a word or phrase)Verb: expresses an action or state of beingAdverb: modifies a verb or adjective or another adverb

(often ends in ly)Noun: a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea

( or quality or action)Conjunction: connects words, phrases, and simple

sentencesAdjective: describes a noun or pronoun or limits the

meaningPronoun: a word that takes the place of a nounPreposition: it relates one word to another; shows the

relationship between a noun and a pronoun

Eight parts of speech 5th hour Notes

Interjection: a word or phrase used to express emotionVerb: words that express action, condition, or state of being Adverb: modifies a verb, adjectives, or other adverb (often

ends in ly)Noun: a word that names a person place or ideaConjunction: connects words or groups of words, clauses,

phrases, and simple sentencesAdjective: modifies or limits the meaning of a noun or

pronoun Pronoun: is a word used in place of noun or another

pronoun Preposition: shows the relationship of noun or pronoun and

another word in a sentence

Eight parts of speech 6th hour Notes

Interjection: word or phrase used to express emotion Verb: an action, a condition, or state of beingAdverb: modifies a verb, adjective or adverb:(often ends in ly)Noun: person, place thing or ideaConjunction: joins words, phrases, clauses & simple

sentencesAdjective: modifies or limits the meaning of a noun or

pronounPronoun: a word used in place of a noun or another

pronounPreposition: a word that shows the relationship between a

noun or pronoun

Wednesday September 18

Intro to diagramming

The dog ran home.

A couple practice diagramsHOW WOULD BEGIN TIO DIAGRAM THIS

SENTENCE?

WHAT QUESTIONS DO YOU ASK?( 5th hour did not start Cornell notes)

The Basics! How to gain points diagramming!!!

Baseline : required (written words do not hang in the air!!!)

Divide:Subject: always on the leftPredicate: always on the right

______________[_____________ NOTE: divide is just a straight line no little

hook on top

Wednesday September 18,2013

Journal #5 Although they may not be an epic hero, _______ is a hero to me.

WHY? WHY? WHY? Give ExamplesFull Page

Wednesday September 18

The Odyssey by Homer translated by Robert Fitzgerald

Cornell NotesRead The Odyssey 886-893 in class

Plan… read to page 915

Norse Notes

I want one more column to the far right for page numbers and web locations( reference made easy !! )

Thursday September 19,2013

Vision testing ½ of 3rd hour. Hand out Pink Diagramming packetsPage One HW if not done in class: Ask students to underline simple subject once underline simple predicate twice circle any prepositional phrasesThen create a baseline with only the simple subject

and simple predicate shift |key nextThe boy swam. ____boy|__swam__The Norse are strong. ____Norse|___are strong__

Cornell Note Norse Notes(Ex. How to take notes)

Main Points

Notes Page #Web site…

Age of Homer’s Epic Poem

800BC 2013+800= 2813 years old Pg 887

The Odyssey

One of the greatest masterpieces of epic form Pg 887

Epic Poem

A long narrative poem about a hero who reflects the ideals and values of a nation or race

Page 890

Odysseus

Crafty Greek!! Master minded the end of the Trojan War by offering a Trojan Horse ( tricked them)

Page 890

Epic Hero

“a larger than life figure, usually male, who embodies the ideals of a nation or race.”

Page 890

Epic Simile

An elaborated simile: extends for several lines( a comparison using like or as…)

Page 891

Book One

Invocation ( cast of characters listed 889) Page 895

Thursday September 19

The Odyssey

Cornell Note taking: keep it simple, clean & specific

HW: 1. Study 8 parts of speech for quiz Friday 2. Lesson 3 Quiz Friday~ use Quizlet tool to

study 3. Review pages 886-891 4. Bring Biography/Autobiography for free

reading

Friday September 20

QuizCheck for diagramming of baseline page oneFree readingConferencing with teacher individually: may

only get through a few people….

Monday September 23

New Vocabulary due Tuesday ~ Quiz Friday Diagramming New packet page 1, skip page

6, complete page 8

The Odyssey: Book 9

Book 9 The Odyssey/New Coasts & Poseidon’s Son

Main?Key Point

NOTES Page #

Odysseus Laertes’ son home is Ithaca Page 896

Love of Home

“I shall not see on earth a place more dear” 896

Circe challenges him

Odysseus stays true to his wife, ‘”my heart never gave consent” She overpowered him.

896

Lotus Eaters

“honeyed plant, the lotus, never cared to report, nor return….forgetful of their homeland”

897

Odysseus saves his men

“ I drove them all wailing to the ships tied them down…no one had taste of the lotus”

898

Cyclopes “Giants…without law…ignorance…no plow …no tribal ways”

898

Cyclopes “ A prodigious man” enormous, Hugh 899

Notes

Page

Odysseus character clever

“ one cupful-ruby colored…in twenty more of water …no man turned away when cups came around” “I brought along a victuals in a bag” (Cyclops try some wine”904)

899

Weakness/Curiosity

refused sound advice of his men= “Take these cheeses get them stowed, put out again on good salt water”

900

Cyclops doesn’t care for Gods

“ We Cyclops care not a whistle for your thundering Zeus”

902

Cyclopes Poseidon’s ( god of the sea and earthquakes) son 889

Cyclopes Eats Odysseus’s men ( & they are stuck in the cave)

903

Clever Gives the wine to Cyclopes

Clever Calls himself “Nobdy…my name is Nohbdy” 906

Tuesday September 24

Correct Vocabulary 4DiagrammingThe Odyssey Continued Begin packetHW for 3rd hour (page 6 Skill Builder Epic

Hero)

Notes Tuesday September 24

Key Point Page 908

Plan: Skill of Odysseus

“I tied them silently…slung a man under each belly…sheepskin” to hide his men

Weakness:Proud

Brags “ Tell him Odysseus raider of cities took your eye”

911

Personification Human qualities to a non human thing “young Dawn with fingertips of rose touched the world”

913