1. October 19, 2015 Rubric Assessment sheet CAPE sheet
Please take one of each sheet at the front of class.
Turn in your Short Answer Assessment PBA in the basket at the table if you have not already.
Order to turn in:
Rubric
Assessment sheet
CAPE sheet
Begin working on Greek Gods and Monsters half-sheet.
After you finish this, fill out The Odyssey Anticipation Guide.

2. Bellwork—October 22, 2015
Take a sheet and pick up your notebook from the table.
Begin working on the Drops in the Bucket, Lesson 33 sheet as bellwork.
After you are finished with your bellwork, open your textbook (under your seat) to page 862.
Please do not open your textbook until you are done with the bellwork.
Also have out your traits of the epic hero notes.

3. Use your epic hero traits note sheet to help answer this question.
How does the reader quickly learn that the story will recount the deeds of an epic hero? (pages )
Use your epic hero traits note sheet to help answer this question.

4. How has Odysseus proved to his audience that he is determined to achieve his journey’s end?
Write down three pieces of evidence of this from page 865.
Write down the phrase and on what line or lines it is found.

5. What actions reveal this?
Using lines 61-87, explain how Odysseus is set apart or different from his men.
What actions reveal this?

6. Why is Odysseus making this expedition to the island
Why is Odysseus making this expedition to the island? What does this side trip suggest about epic journeys?

7. Bellwork—October 23, 2015
Also grab the question sheet and a book at the table.
Answer in your journal the following question:
Almost all societies contain myths/stories of "The Journey." Why? What is the attraction we have to journeys?

8. With your table group, you are going to read lines 100-366 (pages 867-875)
Each person in the group is reading a part out loud to rest of the group.
Decide which person is reading which part; this should take less than a minute.
Part 1: lines a (We will do this together as a class.)
Part 2: lines 167b- 230
Part 3: lines
Part 4: lines
Answer the questions together as you read.

9. With your table group, you are going to read lines 100-366 (pages 867-875)
Each person in the group is reading a part out loud to rest of the group.
Decide which person is reading which part; this should take less than a minute.
Part 1: lines
Part 2: lines
Part 3: lines
Answer the questions together as you read.

10. Bellwork—October 26, 2015 take a textbook from the table.
With your group, finish the sheet from Friday.

11. Bellwork—October 27, 2015
Please take a textbook and your journal from the table.
In your journal, answering the following question:
In lines 211 to 217 (page 870), what two similes are used to describe the cyclops’s dinner? Make sure to explain what two things are being compared.

12. Figurative Language
Find the simile used on page 873. What is being compared? Why might he have chosen this comparison?
What kind of figurative language is being used in lines on page 874? Why do you think the poet chose to write it this way?

13. October 28, 2015
Please take your journal and your textbook from the table.
In your journal, write in detail about the following question:
What is one modern invention that Odysseus could have used to help him in his current obstacle(escaping the cave and fighting the cyclops)? Explain how he would use it.

14. Traits of an Epic Hero
Have your Epic and Epic Heroes sheet on your desk.
Answer in journal:
What traits of an epic hero did Odysseus demonstrate in lines ?
For each trait listed, explain why he demonstrated it.
Find at least four traits.

15. Lines 407-439 (pages 877-878) Traits of Epic Heroes:
What trait of an epic hero do these lines reveal?
How can this trait/these lines relate to a theme for the epic?

16. Journal Questions
Foreshadowing: What does the Cyclops’s prayer in lines suggest about Odysseus’s return journey to Ithaca?
Figurative language: Lines are an example of what type of figurative language?

17. October 29, 2015 Bellwork: Conflict
Name at least two types of conflict shown when Odysseus meets the Cyclops.
Character vs. character
Character vs. self
Character vs. nature
Character vs. society
Describe each conflict and explain how the conflict is one of the categories above.