Wednesday 28 February 2018 for Periods 5 & 6 and Thursday 1 March 2018 for Periods 1, 2, & 7
Membean Vocabulary Drills: 15 minutes
Vocabulary Test
The class has completed the epic unit and is beginning nonfiction and expository writing.
Homework: Read Eric Schwitzgebel's "How to Tell if You're a Jerk"
Students will have a quiz over the reading at the beginning of the next class.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Odyssey Test
Tuesday 27 February 2018 for Periods 2, 5, & 6 and Wednesday 28 February 2018 for Periods 1 & 7
Students will complete their test first and then use any remaining time to put in fifteen minutes of Membean drills.
Homework: Complete fifteen minutes of Membean vocabulary drills if not completed during class time.
Students will complete their test first and then use any remaining time to put in fifteen minutes of Membean drills.
Homework: Complete fifteen minutes of Membean vocabulary drills if not completed during class time.
Project Presentations
Monday 26 February 2018 for Periods 1, 2, 5 & 6 and Tuesday 27 February 2018 for Period 7
After ten minutes of Membean drills, as many students as could presented their projects. We began with food projects.
Students who did not present during this period will present during the class period following their Odyssey test.
Homework: Study for the Odyssey test.
After ten minutes of Membean drills, as many students as could presented their projects. We began with food projects.
Students who did not present during this period will present during the class period following their Odyssey test.
Homework: Study for the Odyssey test.
More Odyssey Review Time
Students spent the last two class periods between February 21-23 reviewing for their Odyssey test.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Odyssey Review Time
Tuesday 20 February 2018 for Periods 2, 5 & 6 and Wednesday 21 February 2018 for Periods 1 & 7
Membean Vocabulary Drills: fifteen minutes
Students read Mr. Stone's latest Inlandia Literary Journeys column on commonplace books.
Mr. Stone discussed how the students use of a commonplace book compares with the practices described in his column.
Students studied Quizlet sets for their Odyssey test:
Tales from the Odyssey Characters
https://quizlet.com/269708247/tales-from-the-odyssey-characters-flash-cards/
Stages in the Hero's Journey
https://quizlet.com/270791449/stages-in-the-heros-journey-flash-cards/
The Hero's Journey in Homer's Odyssey
https://quizlet.com/270828909/heros-journey-in-homers-odyssey-flash-cards/
Miscellaneous Odyssey Questions
https://quizlet.com/270900527/miscellaneous-odyssey-questions-flash-cards/
Homework: Continue to study for the Odyssey test using the Quizlet sets and the materials on the Odyssey in your commonplace books. Continue to work on your Odyssey project as needed. Prioritize. The test is this week. The project is due the beginning of next.
Membean Vocabulary Drills: fifteen minutes
Students read Mr. Stone's latest Inlandia Literary Journeys column on commonplace books.
Mr. Stone discussed how the students use of a commonplace book compares with the practices described in his column.
Students studied Quizlet sets for their Odyssey test:
Tales from the Odyssey Characters
https://quizlet.com/269708247/tales-from-the-odyssey-characters-flash-cards/
Stages in the Hero's Journey
https://quizlet.com/270791449/stages-in-the-heros-journey-flash-cards/
The Hero's Journey in Homer's Odyssey
https://quizlet.com/270828909/heros-journey-in-homers-odyssey-flash-cards/
Miscellaneous Odyssey Questions
https://quizlet.com/270900527/miscellaneous-odyssey-questions-flash-cards/
Homework: Continue to study for the Odyssey test using the Quizlet sets and the materials on the Odyssey in your commonplace books. Continue to work on your Odyssey project as needed. Prioritize. The test is this week. The project is due the beginning of next.
Study Hall for Period 7
Due to the Presidents' Day holiday seventh period meets one more day this week than the other periods of English I; therefore, they had a study hall on Tuesday, February 20th.
Homework: Study for the Odyssey test and continue to work on the Odyssey project.
Homework: Study for the Odyssey test and continue to work on the Odyssey project.
Thursday, February 15, 2018
More on Epic Similes and Meter
Thursday 15 February 2018 for Periods 5 & 6 and Friday 16 February 2018 for Periods 1, 2, & 7
Membean Vocabulary Drills: 10 minutes
Mr. Stone gave students a sheet explaining the acronym SOAPSTONES as used for document analysis (particularly in AP history courses). He proceeded to model document analysis by annotating a page from Book 9 of The Odyssey.
The analysis focused on speaker's use of the familiar and the unfamiliar in epic similes.
(If a student missed this analysis, he/she should be sure to get the notes from a classmate.)
Students filled in the meter, elevated style, and epic simile cells on the epic elements table in their commonplace books.
Homework: Study for The Odyssey test by using your notes and continue preparing your selected Odyssey project.
Check Quizlet for the character study set.
Check Quizlet for the character study set.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Meter and Epic Similes
Wednesday 14 February 2018 for Periods 5 & 6 and Thursday 15 February 2018 for Periods 1, 2, & 7
Membean Vocabulary Drills: 10 minutes
Vocabulary Test 3
Mr. Stone gave students three meter sheets for their commonplace books and went over the five most common metric feet in English: the anapest, the dactyl, the iamb, the spondee, and the trochee.
Each sheet contains five famous quotations from poems in English. Mr. Stone went helped the students identify the dominant type of metrical foot for each quotation on the first sheet and students worked in small groups to identify the dominant foot in each of the quoted passages on the other two sheets.
For now, students are to place the meter sheets in their commonplace books next to the back cover.
Students received a photocopied page from Book 9 of a verse translation of The Odyssey, labeled Examples of Epic Similes.
Mr. Stone defined and discussed the concept of marginalia and instructed students to write from the board the definition for epic simile at the bottom of the "Examples of Epic Similes" sheet.
Homework: Continue to work on your Odyssey project and to study notes from your commonplace book to prepare for the test over The Odyssey to be taken at the end of next week.
Remember projects are due on Monday, February 26th for Periods, 1, 2, 5, & 6 and on Tuesday, February 27th for Period 7.
Membean Vocabulary Drills: 10 minutes
Vocabulary Test 3
Mr. Stone gave students three meter sheets for their commonplace books and went over the five most common metric feet in English: the anapest, the dactyl, the iamb, the spondee, and the trochee.
Each sheet contains five famous quotations from poems in English. Mr. Stone went helped the students identify the dominant type of metrical foot for each quotation on the first sheet and students worked in small groups to identify the dominant foot in each of the quoted passages on the other two sheets.
For now, students are to place the meter sheets in their commonplace books next to the back cover.
Students received a photocopied page from Book 9 of a verse translation of The Odyssey, labeled Examples of Epic Similes.
Mr. Stone defined and discussed the concept of marginalia and instructed students to write from the board the definition for epic simile at the bottom of the "Examples of Epic Similes" sheet.
Homework: Continue to work on your Odyssey project and to study notes from your commonplace book to prepare for the test over The Odyssey to be taken at the end of next week.
Remember projects are due on Monday, February 26th for Periods, 1, 2, 5, & 6 and on Tuesday, February 27th for Period 7.
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
More Odyssey Analysis
Tuesday 13 February 2018 for Periods 2, 5, & 6 and Wednesday 14 February 2018 for Periods 1 & 7
Membean Vocabulary Drills: 10 minutes
Students finished completing the table on Odysseus's Journey showing how the story of Odysseus relates to Joseph Campbell's hero's journey stages.
They continued to work on completing the Epic Elements in Homer's Odyssey tables.
Homework: Begin studying for the Odyssey test.
The Odyssey test will be on Thursday, February 22 for Periods 5 & 6 and Friday February 23 for Periods 1, 2, & 7
Membean Vocabulary Drills: 10 minutes
Students finished completing the table on Odysseus's Journey showing how the story of Odysseus relates to Joseph Campbell's hero's journey stages.
They continued to work on completing the Epic Elements in Homer's Odyssey tables.
Homework: Begin studying for the Odyssey test.
The Odyssey test will be on Thursday, February 22 for Periods 5 & 6 and Friday February 23 for Periods 1, 2, & 7
Monday, February 12, 2018
Analysis of Homer's Odyssey for Joseph Campbell's Stages of a Hero's Journey
Monday 12 February 2018 for Periods 1, 2, 5, & 6 and Tuesday 13 February 2018 for Period 7
Membean Vocabulary Drills: 10 minutes
Student reviewed a video on the stages in a hero's journey and discussed how those are demonstrated by the story of Homer's Odyssey.
Homework: Begin working on your selected Odyssey project.
Membean Vocabulary Drills: 10 minutes
Student reviewed a video on the stages in a hero's journey and discussed how those are demonstrated by the story of Homer's Odyssey.
Homework: Begin working on your selected Odyssey project.
Odyssey Project Option Selection
Thursday 8 February 2018 for Periods 5 & 6 and Friday 9 February 2018 for Periods 1, 2, & 7
After Mr. Stone reviewed the projects options available for students to complete for Homer's Odyssey, he used a random number generator to select students to choose the option they would like to complete. (Some projects, e.g. food projects).
Homework: Complete ten minutes of Membean vocabulary drills.
After Mr. Stone reviewed the projects options available for students to complete for Homer's Odyssey, he used a random number generator to select students to choose the option they would like to complete. (Some projects, e.g. food projects).
Homework: Complete ten minutes of Membean vocabulary drills.
More Analysis of Homer's Odyssey for Epic Elements
Wednesday 7 February 2018 for Periods 5 & 6 and Thursday 8 February 2018 for Periods 1, 2, & 7
Students used Pope's Tales from the Odyssey to find evidence of selected epic elements: heroic deeds, heroic identity, supernatural involvement, and epithets.
Homework: Complete ten minutes of Membean vocabulary drills.
Students used Pope's Tales from the Odyssey to find evidence of selected epic elements: heroic deeds, heroic identity, supernatural involvement, and epithets.
Homework: Complete ten minutes of Membean vocabulary drills.
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Identifying the Epic Elements in Homer's Odyssey
Tuesday 6 February 2018 for Periods 2, 5, & 6 and Wednesday 7, February 2018 for Periods 1 & 7
The Junior class is making use of the Chrome books from Tuesday through Thursday this week. Membean drills will be completed as part of homework during these days.
Mr. Stone distributed five three-hole-punched sheets for students to place in their commonplace books: Epic Poetry, Epic Elements in Homer's Odyssey (2 sheets), Odysseus's Journey, diagram of the stages in Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey.
Students checked the order of the commonplace pages as they inserted these new sheets in their books.
The class began completing the Epic Elements in Homer's Odyssey table. They filled in textual evidence for invocation of the muse, long narrative poem, and panoramic setting.
Mr. Stone began discussing the options for the Odyssey projects. He showed examples of a game, a model, a diorama of a scene, a painting/drawing of a scene, Odyssey by the numbers, and journey calculations.
Homework: Complete ten minutes of Membean vocabulary drills, work on finishing reading Tales from the Odyssey if you have not completed reading it in class and you have checked out a copy from Mr. Stone, and begin reviewing the notes taken in class in preparation for you test over the Odyssey.
The Junior class is making use of the Chrome books from Tuesday through Thursday this week. Membean drills will be completed as part of homework during these days.
Mr. Stone distributed five three-hole-punched sheets for students to place in their commonplace books: Epic Poetry, Epic Elements in Homer's Odyssey (2 sheets), Odysseus's Journey, diagram of the stages in Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey.
Students checked the order of the commonplace pages as they inserted these new sheets in their books.
The class began completing the Epic Elements in Homer's Odyssey table. They filled in textual evidence for invocation of the muse, long narrative poem, and panoramic setting.
Mr. Stone began discussing the options for the Odyssey projects. He showed examples of a game, a model, a diorama of a scene, a painting/drawing of a scene, Odyssey by the numbers, and journey calculations.
Homework: Complete ten minutes of Membean vocabulary drills, work on finishing reading Tales from the Odyssey if you have not completed reading it in class and you have checked out a copy from Mr. Stone, and begin reviewing the notes taken in class in preparation for you test over the Odyssey.
Monday, February 5, 2018
The Odyssey Continues
Monday 5 February 2018 for Periods 1, 2, 5, & 6 and Tuesday 6 February 2018 for Period 7
Membean Vocabulary Drills: 10 minutes
Students continued to read through Tales from the Odyssey at their own pace. Students who have finished reading both books reviewed the events of the story by playing the Odyssey game in the lobby.
Homework: View Nikolia Apostolou's "Searching for Ancient Ithaca" and listen to Edna St. Vincent Millay's "An Anicent Gesture."
Membean Vocabulary Drills: 10 minutes
Students continued to read through Tales from the Odyssey at their own pace. Students who have finished reading both books reviewed the events of the story by playing the Odyssey game in the lobby.
Homework: View Nikolia Apostolou's "Searching for Ancient Ithaca" and listen to Edna St. Vincent Millay's "An Anicent Gesture."
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Vocabulary Test 2 & More of the Odyssey
Thursday 1 February 2018 for Periods 5 & 6 and Friday 2 February 2018 for Periods 1, 2, & 7
Membean Vocabulary Drills: ten minutes
Students took their second individualized vocabulary test for this semester and continued reading Mary Pope's Tales from the Odyssey if they are not finished.
Homework: Listen to the opening lines of the Odyssey in reconstructed ancient Greek pronunciation,
view Everything You Need to know to Read Homer's Odsyssey, and take a look at a fragment of ancient papyrus with a portion of the Odyssey.
Membean Vocabulary Drills: ten minutes
Students took their second individualized vocabulary test for this semester and continued reading Mary Pope's Tales from the Odyssey if they are not finished.
Homework: Listen to the opening lines of the Odyssey in reconstructed ancient Greek pronunciation,
view Everything You Need to know to Read Homer's Odsyssey, and take a look at a fragment of ancient papyrus with a portion of the Odyssey.
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