Common Core Standards: WHST Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. SL Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. MENTOR FORMS DUE THURSDAY SAT Word: ostentatious: excessively showy, glitzy EQ: When or where will you have to read nonfiction texts after graduating high school? Monday Vocabulary Check: Law Present Things Elements of the Epic: Quests Watch Spiderman English IV Saunders, Owens, & Mere 2/6/11 Computers Folders Nametags Computers Folders Nametags

Elements of the Epic: Quests 1. Epic hero 2. Divine Intervention 3. Quest 4. Valorous Deeds 5. Great Events – Quest: Definition: “A quest is a long, dangerous journey or mission undertaken by the epic hero. The quest is the hero’s opportunity to prove his heroism and win honor and underlying renown. – Harry Potter looking for Horcruxes, Odysseus trying to return home, Link saving Zelda, Mario saving Peach. Read excerpt from How to Read Literature Like a Professor” – Need highlighter and pen or pencil

Common Core Standards: WHST Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. SL Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. MENTOR FORMS DUE THURSDAY SAT Word: ostracism: exclusion from a group EQ: What is an important historical event that has happened during your lifetime about which you will tell your children and grandchildren? Finish up Annotations of the Quest Present Things Elements of the Epic : Valorous Deeds & Great Events Spiderman English IV Saunders, Owens, & Mere 2/7/11 Computers Folders Nametags Computers Folders Nametags

Valorous Deeds & Great Events *Can you remember the 5 elements we talked about on Monday? Valorous deeds: “These actions demonstrate the hero’s courage, strength, or virtue and make up most of the action in the narrative.” – Spiderman example Great Events: “Important events from the history or mythology of a nation or culture often provide the backdrop for the epic narrative.” -Iliad takes place during the Trojan War.

Common Core Standards: WHST Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. SL Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. MENTOR FORMS DUE TOMORROW! SAT Word: panacea: a remedy for all ills or difficulties EQ: Why do you think it is challenging to read poems and stories that were written a very long time ago? Present Things Epic Watch Raffel Clip: Spiderman English IV Saunders, Owens, & Mere 2/8/11 Computers Folders Nametags Computers Folders Nametags

Epic What are the 5 elements of an epic? “An epic is a long narrative poem that recounts the adventures of a legendary hero in pursuit of a goal of national importance. The hero’s accomplishments reflect the values of his culture and usually figure prominently in the history of mythology of a people.” – Examples: Beowulf, Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Tain, Gilgamesh, Paradise Lost

Common Core Standards: WHST Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. SL Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. MENTOR FORMS DUE TODAY SAT Word: paradigm: an example that is a perfect pattern or model EQ: What words and phrases are part of the English language that someone from Shakespeare’s time wouldn’t understand? Present Things History of the English Language Watch Spiderman English IV Saunders, Owens, & Mere 2/9/11 Computers Folders Nametags Computers Folders Nametags

Common Core Standards: WHST Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. SL Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. SAT Word: penultimate: next to last EQ: The Anglo-Saxons passed along stories orally. Can you think of any stories we pass along orally today? If not, why not? Review History of English Language Present Things Anglo-Saxons Webquest Watch Spiderman English IV Saunders, Owens, & Mere 2/10/11 Computers Folders Nametags Computers Folders Nametags

Webquest: Research the Anglo-Saxons 1. Groups will present findings. -They can do this by writing down the answers, explaining pictures, etc. 2. I expect each member to participate. -On the Spiderman slip they will write down what they contributed to the group and whether the other members of their group participated. -This will be graded class work. 3. Questions to Answer: a. Where were the Anglo-Saxons from? When and where did they live? b. What gods did they worship? c. What was Anglo-Saxon life like?