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.

Odyssesy Day Two & Anecdote Example Page

Tuesday 23 January 2018 for Periods 2, 5 & 6 and Wednesday 24 January 2018 for Periods 1 & 7

Membean Vocabulary Drills:  15 minutes

After students finished their vocabulary drills, they continued reading in Mary Pope Osborne's Tales from the Odyssey.  Students left the sticky note with their name on it on the page where they finish reading for the period.

While students read, Mr. Stone checked for the completion of the cover of their commonplace book which they were to complete for homework.

Homework:  Make an "Examples of Anecdotes" page for your commonplace book.  Your page should include the Anecdote of a Sagacious Dog which we read in class last quarter and another anecdote of your choosing.  Reader's Digest 100-Word Stories is a great source for examples of anecdotes.

Be sure the page you create for your commonplace book includes:

the title "Examples of Anecdotes"

the text of the "Anecdote of a Sagacious Dog"

the text of an additional anecdote you choose

You may handwrite, type, print-cut-and-paste, or copy-paste-and-print, whatever works best for you.

Just be sure to write the source of your anecdote underneath it.  The "Anecdote of a Sagacious Dog" comes from Sarah Lockwood's Composition and Rhetoric for Higher Schools.

If you use an anecdote from the Reader's Digest website, just write "Reader's Digest" under the anecdote you provide.

Note:  Do NOT use the same additional examples as Mr. Stone used.

Reading Homer's Odyssey & Starting a Commonplace Book

Monday 22 January 2018 for Periods 1, 2, 5, & 6 and Tuesday 23 January 2019 for Period 7

Students began reading Mary Pope Osborne's retelling of Homer's Odyssey using classroom copies of the books.  Students will progress through this book at their own pace.

Homework:  Make a cover for your commonplace book.  Be sure to include your name and one of the words for a commonplace book (commonplace book, zibaldone, or hodgepodge book).  Your cover should be decorated to show something about your self or your interests.

Submitting Final Draft of Anecdote & Vocabulary Assessment

Thursday 11 January 2018 for Periods 5 & 6 and 12 January 2018 for Periods 1, 2, 7

Membean Vocabulary: 10 minutes of drills and a twenty question test

Students submitted the final draft of their anecdote with the peer-edit sheet, revised draft, peer-critique sheet, and rough draft stapled below it.

In addition, students submitted the final draft of their anecdote and the summary portion of their cereal box project to Turnitin.com.

Students self-corrected Comma Practice #3 using an answer key.

Mr. Stone encouraged students to check out the comma resources available on the right column of this class blog.

Homework:  Study for the comma test to be completed during the final exam period. This test will be included in writing portion of the students' grades.

Peer Editing Anecdote

Wednesday 10 January 2018 for Periods 5 & 6 and Thursday 11 January 2018 for Periods 1, 2, & 7

Membean Vocabulary Drill:  10 minutes

Each student and a partner used a peer-edit sheet to critique their anecdotes.

Homework:  Complete Comma Practice #3

Peer Critiquing Anecdotes

Tuesday 9 January 2018 for Periods 2, 5 & 6 and Wednesday 10 January 2018 for Periods 1 & 7

Membean Vocabulary Drills:  10 minutes

Students read two classmates' anecdotes and signed them to indicate they had read them.

Students had one one of the two classmates who had read their anecdote complete a peer critique form about their anecdote.

Homework:  Students should complete a revised draft of their anecdote in MLA format.  They should consider the peer critics comments on the anecdote's brevity, beginning, middle, and end as they revise.

Remember the anecdote should be a true story.

Comma Practice #2

Monday 8 January 2018 for Periods 1, 2, 5 & 6 and Tuesday 9 January 2018 for Period 7

Membean Vocabulary Drills: 10 Minutes

Mr. Stone reviewed the answers for Comma Practice #1 explaining the grammatical elements involved in each.

If time permitted, Mr. Stone shared personal anecdotes.

Homework:  Complete Comma Practice #2

Comma Practice #1

Thursday 4 January 2018 for Periods 5 & 6 and Friday 5 January 2018 for Periods 1, 2, & 7

Membean Vocabulary Drills:  10 minutes

In class, students used their comma rule sheets to help them complete Comma Practice #1.

Homework:  Write a rough draft of an anecdote using the article and example discussed earlier in class and examples from Reader's Digest.

5 Principles of Commas

Wednesday 3 January 2017 for Periods 7, 5, & 6 and Thursday 4 January 2017 for Periods 1, & 2

Devotional Text:  Philippians 1:6

After prayer, students spent ten minutes practicing their vocabulary on Membean.

Mr. Stone then continued working through the packet on the five principles of commas:  series, coordinate, introductory, interrupting, and conventional.  Students wrote notes on the bottom of each page of their comma packets.

Homework:  Finish the auto/biography cereal box project.

Anecdotes and Commas

Tuesday 2 January 2018 for Periods 7, 2, 5 & 6 and Wednesday 3 January 2018 for Period 1

Devotional Text:  John 1:1

After prayer, students spent ten minutes completing vocabulary drills on Membean.

Students spent a few minutes perusing copies of Reader's digest, looking specifically at sections containing anecdotes.

Mr. Stone share one of his previous newspaper columns as an introduction to anecdotes and read  "An Anecdote of a Sagacious Dog" from a 1901 composition textbook.

Students received paper for the commonplace book they will be starting and two handouts on commas, a set of rules and comma practice #1.

Homework:  Work on completing cereal box project which is due on Thursday for Periods 5 & 6 and Friday for Periods 1, 2, & 7.