Odyssey Day Three: More Reading & Translation Comparison

Wednesday 24 January 2018 for Periods 5 & 6 and Thursday 25 January 2018 for Periods 1, 2, & 7

Membean Vocabulary Drills:  15 minutes

Students continued reading where they left off in Mary Pope Osborne's Tales from the Odyssey.

Mr. Stone showed students how to use the "Look Inside" function of Amazon to assist them in completing the homework.

Homework:  Create a new page for your commonplace book titled "Odyssey Translation Comparison."  Copy the same passage (minimum of 4-8 lines) from both translations onto your page.  Be sure and write "translated by" and the translator's name under each of the two passages you choose to copy.  Write the book number (and preferably lines) for the passage you quoted.

 Use the following two translator's:

Emily Wilson

and

Robert Fagles

Below is a sample page.  You may not use this same passage for your commonplace book.