- Vocab Quiz
- Epithets and epic similes- find examples of each from The Odyssey and list them in a response to this post.
- Writing prompt: Create an epithet for your own name. Consider who you are, what your parents do, what you’re known for: report out
- Reading discussion in groups: books 13-14
BOOK 13 QUESTIONS (pp. 286-300)
1. What are the consequences for the Phaeacians for helping Odysseus? Why?
2. How does Odysseus react to meeting Athena? What is revealed about his character? Why is Athena helping him?
BOOK 14 QUESTIONS (pp. 301-318)
1. How are even the guests of slaves treated?
2. What does Odysseus learn in this chapter?
HW: Read books 15-16 and finish Cyclops writing. For extra credit, add at least two epithets and two epic similes into your Cyclops writing piece. We will be sharing these next class!
-The bright eyed goddess
ReplyDelete-Dawn with her rose red fingers
-Euathes' son, a priest of Apollo, lord of Ismarus
-The nymph with the lovely braids (Calypso)
-Telemus, Eurymus' son, a master at reading signs,
By Callie, Grace and Allison
Athena with her brilliant eyes, brave Odysseus, dawn with her rose red fingers, Nestor the breaker of horses, posieden the earth shaker, Poyphemus the one eyed giant
ReplyDeleteCaroline, Jessi, Skyler, Emma
ReplyDelete-And down from his deck the man flipped like a diver.
-I drove my weight on it from above and bored it home like a shipwright bores his beam with a shipwright's drill that men below
"just as the eagle swooped down from the crags where it was born and bred, just as it snatched that goose fat tend up for the kill inside the house,just so,after many trails and roving long and hard, Odysseus will descend on his house and take revenge-"
ReplyDeleteSarah H, Stacia E, and Eero P.
Carter, Andrew, and Kaia
ReplyDelete1. Just as an angler poised on a jutting rock, flings his treacherous bait in the offshore swell, whips his long rod hook sheathed in an oxhorn lure -and whisks up little fish he flips up on the becas break, writhing, gasping out their lives