Bellringer What is the job of a CLAIM in a CCC? What is the purpose of CITING in a CCC? What must you do in a CLARIFYING STATEMENT in a CCC?

Extra Credit: Graded Homework and Classwork Category DUE DATE: Thursday, September 20th at the BEGINNING of your class period NOTE: You MUST earn a 70 or better on the writing to receive an extra 100 in the 30% category—most of you NEED these points! Write CCCs responding to BOTH prompts below: Compare and contrast Odysseus’ reactions to the three ghosts he meets in “The Land of the Dead”—Elpenor, Anticlea, and Tiresias. What character trait does Odysseus display in the Land of the Dead that he did not reveal earlier in The Odyssey?

MORE EXTRA CREDIT For 10 points on a quiz grade, you can stay after school TODAY or TOMORROW to help decorate the homecoming hall for freshmen! Go to A204 to see Miss Greer after school either day. You MUST sign in with Mrs. Thomas or Miss Greer to earn the points!

Finishing Up Part 1 of The Odyssey

I Can… Read Book Twelve of The Odyssey. (9.RL.RRTC.10) For each major episode of Book Twelve, describe how Odysseus’s response to conflict reveals his character. (9.RL.KID.3)

Answer the questions below on your own paper as you read. According to Circe, what obstacles will the men encounter on their way home? How do the men survive their encounter with the sirens? What happens when the men pass Scylla and Charybdis? What does Eurylochus convince the men to do while Odysseus is asleep? What details convey that this story is being told as a flashback? What is the fate of Odysseus and his men?