Bellringer Brawn: Muscular strength -Create a vocabulary section in the last 10 pages of your notebook -Write Quarter 1 -Write these two definitions in your vocabulary section Brawn: Muscular strength Odyssey: a long and eventful or adventurous journey or experience

Making Inferences Write in your vocabulary section: Inference: a conclusion based off of information that is not explicitly stated in the text. Why do you think we make inferences? To find a deeper meaning within the text, right? So, if Ms. Wallace came in class with a scowl on her face and she’s throwing books around and yelling at (student) for no reason, one can infer what about her mood? That she’s angry. And using these context clues, one can also infer that someone at the school made her angry, right? She’s not angry about something that happened lastnight; she’s probably mad at a coworker or her boss.

Making Inferences Essential question: What inferences can be made about ancient Greek culture and values based on the introduction to The Odyssey? Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support your conclusions. This is what we will be looking for while we read An Intro to Odyssey. While reading, we will find evidence to prove our conclusions about Greek culture and/or values. Remember, we must cite through textual evidence, as we did last class during our scavenger hunt.

Making Inferences Section Textual Evidence My Inference • The ancient Greeks valued oral traditions of storytelling and they saw war as a necessary way to dominate and control their part of the world. • This supports the idea that war may have been a way to show dominance. War was common and controlling the water was a vital piece to maintain power in that area. • “Almost three thousand years ago, people who lived in the starkly beautiful part of the world we now call Greece were telling stories about a great war” (p. 1025). • “Homer’s stories probably can be traced to historical struggles for control of the waterway leading from the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea” (p. 1025). Introduction... From this direct quote, I can infer that the ancient Greeks valued oral traditions of storytelling and saw war as a necessary means of control. The second quote further implies that war may have been a necessary way to show dominance in ancient Greek culture.

Becoming an Expert! Read from page 1025 to 1031 In your class notebook, make a chart like the one in the slide before this. Pull textual evidence from the sections you read and make inferences based upon Greek culture and values Do not use the same textual evidence and references in the slide before this

Essential Question On the same page in your notebook, answer the essential question using ACES format. Do not copy the question, just answer it. What inferences can be made about ancient Greek culture and values based on the introduction to The Odyssey? Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support your conclusions.