World Literature Wednesday November 2 Thursday November 3

Journal Prompt O Have you ever been to a funeral/memorial service? How did it make you feel and why? O If you have never been to a funeral, what are your expectations for one? Do you think you would find it important to go or would you rather grieve/honor a loved one another way

Today’s Objectives O To analyze the descent stage of the hero’s journey for Odysseus O 2 Pre-Reading strategies O Make a personal connection to literature O Practice close reading by examining a specific section of the text to summarizing before reading the text as a whole

Book 10? O Odysseus leaves the land of the Kyklopes O Divine assistance: He is given a bag of wind to help him sail on, but his shipmates become jealous and tear it open, causing a storm. O Land of Giants: more of his men are eaten, Odysseus’s ship alone escapes O Meets up with beautiful witch/goddess Circe/Kirke-after unpleasantness, he becomes her lover and hangs around for a year O Finally they leave, but Kirke advises them they must go through Hades, the realm of the dead to get home

Groups Group 1 Lines (p186- 7) Elpenor-a crew member who died on Kirke’s island Group 2 Lines (p ) Teireisias Theban prophet foretells future for Odysseys Group 3 Lines 94-99; (P187, ) Antikleia Odysseus’ mother Group 4 Alkinoos (not dead but back to the present on Phaikiaia) (p ) Group 5 Agamemnon (p ) On wives Group 6 Achilles On war and his son, Neoptolemus (p ) Group (p 203-4) Other images of the dead: Aiax, Orion, Tityos Group (P 204-5) Tantalos and Sisyphus

PreReading: In your groups O Together, read your assigned lines. O Determine what is learned in the conversation with the dead O do they ask anything of Odysseus? O Do they give him information? O Do they give him advice/prediction? O Choose people to read each character’s lines (Odysseus is narrator of both his and the dead) O Those who do not read will summarize the important points for the class

Book 11: A Gathering of Shades O Odysseus must journey to Hades to seek advice from Tiresias, a dead prophet. Much of this section is plot O Consider what information Odysseus gets from the inhabitants of Hades O Odyssey Hero’s Journey Illustrations are available at the front if you want to do one today

Evaluate the strategy: O How did thinking and talking about your own experiences with funerals help you in understanding Odysseus as meets the dead? O Compare today’s reading with previous days where Mrs. deVidal read aloud. Did you understand more/less/the same? O Which strategy do you think helped you the most.