1. WEEK 10 , 11, & 12 English 9 A
November 7-11, 2016

2. Monday, November 7 REMINDER: Expand Vocabulary
Vocabulary LESSONS 6-10 TEST ON THURSDAY: Graded
Read to understand author’s style
20 minutes Silent Reading Book SHARE NOV 16
The Odyssey The Grace of The Witch
Partner read and take notes on Odysseus’s character: Literary Element characterization EPIC HERO (memorize definition from McDougal Littell)
What he does
What he says
What others say about him
What his motivations are
Compliment: Make a list of 10 people you would like to give a compliment: Think : I have noticed that you…
I appreciate you because…

3. Tuesday, November 8 Read for 15 minutes: Log vocabulary from 6-10
HW 1. Write a synopsis of your book so far.
2. Write a reflection on what you learned about your own reading after reviewing your 6 reading logs. Look at the information you gathered and turn that into a ½ page reflection expressing what you did and what you learned about yourself and how you can apply this awareness.
I can write clear and coherently and demonstrate understanding
of the text.
I can reflect on my reading skills and determine
strategies that will support my purpose for reading.
CLASS WORK/ HOMEWORK: Yellow packet: First two Quiz pages: due Wednesday.
Introduce The Essay in the back of the packet:
Take your compliment list and star the three you want to start with.
Be prepared to write three thoughtful detailed compliment tomorrow.

4. Wednesday, November 9
Collect Home Work: hard copy of Reading Reflection stapled to Reading Log also upload to Eli Review
Work 20 minute review vocabulary.com or Quizlet
The Characterization Essay:
CLASS WORK DUE END OF HOUR:
Write opening paragraph: and a restated thesis
Finish Reading The Odyssey
REMINDER VOCABULARY TEST TOMORROW!!
GRADE COUNTS it’s averaged into MP
Demonstrate understanding of author’s development of character in a formal essay with clear and coherent writing.

5. Directions Odysseus Essay introductory paragraph
1. Create a grabber/hook to encourage your reader’s curiosity and interest Name the epic poem and the author in the first paragraph. 3. Define what a epic hero is and cite definition with MLA. Add a Sentence with thoughts of your own 4. Last sentence of opening paragraph, must be: Odysseus is an epic hero because he is___________, ___________, and ____________; however Odysseus is also human and therefore, has one major weakness,____________.
See next slide….

6. Appeal to the reader’s interest
5 Writer’s Techniques
Loaded language: Rich strong connotation and vivid images
Elevated Language: Formal words and phrases
Rhetorical Questions: Unanswered question which there is an obvious answer
Repetition: Restated forms of expression or important points
Parallelism: Similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns that express ideas of equal importance

7. Sample Opening paragraph
Odysseus, A Hero Among Men
The Odyssey is a long epic poem about a brave hero who embarks on a journey home after winning the Trojan War. There are many books written by Homer around the 8th century B.C., The Wanderings of Odysseus is translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Throughout these stories the main hero, Odysseus, has to overcome many conflicts that slows his journey down, when all he wants is to get home to his family in Ithaca. An epic hero is “a larger ­then­ life figure, usually male, who embodies the ideals of a nation or race” (890). Odysseus is an epic hero because he is brave, clever, and loyal; however Odysseus is also human and therefore has one major weakness, curiosity.

8. Thursday, November 10 Vocabulary Test: For a GRADE
Expand and enrich vocabulary
DONE WITH TEST? Silent read preparing for book share reading workshop next week Nov 16.
Read to understand author’s style and persuasive techniques

9. Friday, November 11 The Odyssey movie:
Compare and contrast movie to literature
Watch for understanding and clarification of story elements and Odysseus’s character.
Homework: Odysseus Essay:
Rough draft due Monday on Eli Review
Literary Element characterization EPIC HERO
FINAL COPY WILL BE DUE THURSDAY THE 17th
Demonstrate understanding of author’s development of character in a formal essay with clear and coherent writing

10. Odysseus Characterization Student sample
  In the epic poem Wandering of Odysseus from the Odyssey, by Homer and translated by Robert Fitzerald, the poet invokes or calls upon the Muse---the goddess of poetry---to give him inspiration in telling the story of Odysseus. According to McDougal Littell the definition of epic hero is “a larger-then-life-figure, usually male, which embodies the ideals of a nation or race. They take place in long, dangerous adventures and accomplish great deeds that require courage and superhuman strength” (890). Odysseus is a hero because he is brave, clever, and strong. However Odysseus is also human and therefore, has one major weakness: indestructibility.
When it comes to war, Odysseus is a man with much guile and has know formidable. Odysseus shows much bravery and in the story he says, “Old shipmates, friends, the rest of you stand by; I’ll make the crossing in my won ship, with my own company, and found out what the mainland natives are---for they may be wild savages, and lawless, or hospitable and god-rearing men” (898). When Odysseus is in the cave with his men he shows much cleverness by telling the Cyclopes that his name was nobody, so when he would yell his name he would say something like, go get nobody. “A prodigious man slept in this cave alone, and took his flocks to graze a field---remote from all companions, knowing none but savage ways, a brute so huge, seems no man at all of those who eat good wheaten bread; but he seemed rather a shaggy mountain reared in solitude” (899). Also when they are trying to get out of the cave after they have stabbed the Cyclopes in the eye they cover themselves in ram wool, they were not overt, but all the men except for one made it out safely. Odysseus shows he is strong because he knew he had despotism to his men and even if he had to obliterate a whole civic he would just do it. “I brought along, and victuals in a bag, for in my bones I knew some towering brute would be upon us soon all outward power a wild man, ignorant of civility”(900).
Although Odysseus is ruler of Troy he lacks indestructibility. Know human is indestructible even when there are gods to protect them from harm. Odysseus faces many dangerous activities with in his adventures at sea and finds himself in many tangles, but untangles them easily. Odysseus speaks “We cried aloud, lifting our hands to Zeus, powerless, looking at this, appalled; but Cyclops went on filling up his belly with man flesh and great gulps of whey then lay down like a mast among his sheep” (903). He also says “I had torched the spot when sudden fear stayed me: if I killed him we perished there was well, for we could never move his ponderous doorway slab aside” (903). No one is indestructible, but with the cleverness of Odysseus it sure seems like he will always be a weathered person.
Odysseus is a hero because he is brave, clever, and strong. However Odysseus is also human and therefore, has one major weakness: indestructibility. Although he is the ruler and has much talent in what he does he can not be indestructible. This proves he is only human.
Discuss what is working and where the problems are in this sample.

11. WEEK 11: Monday, November 14 Happy Monday!!
Check out the moon tonight! Anyone see it last night?
Paper done Uploaded to Eli Review?
Print your paper please.
On hard copy step by step correcting in class teacher led:
Go through paper one thing at a time search for:
Third person Present tense
Time New Roman, size 12 font, 1 inch margins
Thesis placed correctly in opening paragraph
Title of text read correct and in Italics
Everything that was copied from a text is in quotations

12. Tuesday, November 15 First ½ hour time to work on Book Presentation
Eli Review caught up?? Opening paragraph, rough draft? Review of fellow writers?
Second ½ hour time to work in Odyssey packet

13. Wednesday, November 16 1. Book Presentations
2. Hand out answers to pretest of Pronoun-Person Chart

14. Thursday-Monday, November 17-21
TARGETS
I can write clear and coherent writing
I can cite sources to support
I can elaborate for logic on each quote used
Writing workshop Odysseus paper
Make editing improvements
Check rubric for criteria to get full credit
ADD YOUR VOCABULARY WORDS

15. WEEK 12 Nov 21-23 Make notes today and tonight!!!
Think about and be aware of where you can….
GIVE THANKS!
Watch closely for acts of kindness…
NOTICING KINDNESS

16. Monday, November 21 Print essays papers Highlight quotes
Underline vocabulary; if not in bold
Hand Write a creative title above the name of the assignment
Watch end of movie for review for a test.