Mythology Week 3 ALLUSIONS: THE LOVERS, SISYPHUS AND DADAELUS

Monday, August 31st  Learning Target: I can define and identify allusion.  Focus question: When is your IR novel set? What are some clues from the novel that tell you when it is set?

What’s an allusion?  An allusion is any reference in a piece of literature to another literary work, history, work of art etc.

The World’s Best Known Lovers  The story of Cupid and Psyche is one of the most beautiful myths of the power of love and the necessity for trust in a true relationship. Psyche discovers that “Love cannot live where there is no trust.” She also learns that the soul can be purified by pain and suffering and that love, once lost can be regained if the lover is willing to pay the price.

The World’s Best Known Lovers Glaucus & Scylla  Fisherman falls in love with woman.  She tricks him and turns into a massive sea- monster

The World’s Best Known Lovers Narcissus nar SISS uss  Hera’s sentence of silence for Echo the nymph  Narcissus is vain, Echo loved him  “Is anyone here?” “Here, here!”  Echo ignored by Narcissus faded to only a voice.  Finally saw himself and died looking at it.

The World’s Best Known Lovers Pyramus and Thisbe PEER ah muss and THIZ bee  Fairest and Handsomest in Babylonia.  Forbidden love  Plan to meet at Tomb of Ninus.  Thisbe’s cape soiled with blood by a lioness  Pyramus stabbed himself over her assumed death  Thisbe returned to him and also stabbed herself.

The World’s Best Known Lovers Ceyx & Alcyone  Lovers separated  Alcyone dies at sea and washes up on shore.  Ceyx and he turn to birds and live on together

The World’s Best Known Lovers Baucis and Philemon BA kiss and FILL ah min  Zeus & son Hermes  Test of Hospitality  Ever-full wine bowl  Flood  Hut to Temple  Oak and Linden trees

The World’s Best Known Lovers Orpheus & Eurydice  Eurydice is bitten by snake then Orpheus visits the underworld  He disobeys and turns around and she disappears forever.

The World’s Best Known Lovers Apollo and Daphne ah PAWL oh and DAF nee  Apollo taunted Eros  One arrow of gold one of lead  Pursuit and plea for help.  Laurel tree transformation  Vow of fidelity

The World’s Best Known Lovers  Pygmalion and Galatea  pig MAIL yon and gal ah TAY ah  King of Cyprus  Sculpted a woman  Prayed to Aphrodite  Live statue  Love and marriage

Homework for Tuesday:  Read Camus’ “The Myth of Sisyphus” Be PREPARED to talk and write about this story tomorrow.

Tuesday, September 1  Learning Target: I can identify allusions in text.  Focus question: Find an allusion in your IR novel and write down the quote. Explain what it is alluding.  Agenda: 1. IR 2. The Myth of Sisyphus 3. Sisyphus the Hamster

“The Myth of Sisyphus” Reading Check  1. What was Sisyphus’ punishment?  2. Why is Sisyphus being punished? Be specific.  3. A Sisyphian task is often referred to as one where someone has to repeat the same thing day after day. What is YOUR Sisyphian task? Relate it to the myth.

Albert Camus  Albert Camus ( ) French writer and philosopher  Huge in the philosophical movement of NIHILISM (belief in nothing) and absurdism (life is absurd)  Famous for works such as “The Stranger” “The Plague” and “The Myth of Sisyphus ”

Existentialism  a philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will. TURN and TALK: WHY IS “THE MYTH of SISYPHUS” CONSIDERED AN EXISTENTIAL TEXT??????

Sisyphus the Hamster stars/

Wednesday, September 2 nd  Learning Target: I can identify the mood of a text.  Focus question: What is the mood depicted by the author of your IR novel? What imagery does the author use to portray this mood? Give examples.

Tomorrow and Friday: Writing Conferences  Class both days will be in the Seminar Room.  One at a table.  Absolutely no talking. If you are talking, you go to ISAP. Period.  Conferences are one at a time. I (or another teacher) will sit down with you and go over rubric. You will take notes on Conference Sheet and ask questions.  Conference Sheet needs to be completed and turned in by the end of the day on Friday.

Revisions  Must be typed!!!  Revision MUST be stapled to original rubric and draft.  Are due Wednesday, September 16 th

Daedalus and Icarus  1. What did Daedalus instruct his son not to do?  2. What happened to Icarus?  3. What is the moral of the myth?

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (Bruegel)

Thursday, September 3rd, 2015 Hello. Please sit down ONE AT A TABLE!!!!  Learning Target: I can determine the tone of a text.  Focus Question: What is the tone of your IR novel? What are -the author’s choice of words of positive and/or negative connotation that help you understand the tone? Today we will be conferencing. I will call you up one at a time. Please bring your binder with your conference sheet and a pencil. For the first 15 minutes of class time, I want you to work on your IR/focus question. For the remaining time, please pull out the packet we started yesterday on Landscape with a Fall of Icarus. This should be completed today.

Friday, September 4 th.  Learning Target: I can determine the tone of a text using connotation.  Focus question: Find a word from your IR novel that has a positive connotation, write it down and explain why it is positive. Find a word with a negative connotation, write it down and ex plain why it is negative.  1. Allusions EOC quiz  2. Independent Reading/Focus Question  2. Read the story “Perseus” in your Mythology books. Quiz on story Tuesday.  3. Vocabulary Packet due Wednesday.

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