The Trojan War

TWO POWERPOINTS FROM CLASS:

Made by Tidyman
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 Made by Mrs. Sottek
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Link to the Guided Lecture Notes from Class

HW:

• Read Ch. 14: The Fall Of Troy

Students Present: Myths! (Day 2)

A handful of final presentations were conducted today.

Two other goals for the day:

1. Do a 15-minute Session of Membean
2. Get your ENGL Textbook signed out to you (see me for this if you were absent)

HW:

• Read Ch. 13: "The Trojan War"

Students Present: Myths! (Day 1)

Students presented their multi-media Myth projects today.

Almost every group go to go, but we'll have a few more tomorrow. We missed the SSMV Vandy Squad Nerds.

Tomorrow: Mythological Presentations!

Even though I know it's Sunday and I don't expect this site to get much traffic today, here's a quick post in preparation for tomorrow:

This is the Multi-Media Myth Project Assignment Sheet

This is the Rubric

This is a guide to who-all is presenting on what, and when:

How to "Hand In" This Project:

• Frankly it depends on the kind of multi-media visual your group has prepared
• For saved visual files, consider the following:
• Bring it in on a USB Drive
• Email it to jesse.tidyman@mnps.org (as an attachment)
• For web-based or cloud-hosted visuals, you might:
• "Share" it to me (Dropbox, Google Drive, and MNPS Office365 all have this feature)
• Email me a link to the website with your visual (Prezi comes to mind)
• Special Note on Movies:
• I have no idea how many groups decided to film anything and make a movie. But let me warn you now: I use a Macbook in 3NW. Which means I can play MANY video-file formats, but I CANNOT play Windows MovieMaker (or any other Windows OS movie-creation/project program)  project files.
• You can use whatever software you want but you have to export your project to a video file format such as .mp4, .mov, or .mkv. Or you can burn it to a blank DVD, if you have the hardware for that.

Bonus: Done with your project? Bored? 

I have this book in my classroom.

This is a link to an audio-drama of the Cupid & Psyche myth.
No, it's not required for class. But it's listening and not reading, so hey, maybe you might enjoy it.

Socratic Circle: Heroes of Mythology

Students participated in a socratic circle discussion activity today. Results were generally underwhelming.

Project Work & Socratic Prep

A handful of my classes reviewed the Hero Chart columns for Perseus and Theseus.

A handful did not, after it became rankly apparent that only about 7 students did the reading and HW. Thanks, 3rd period.

The reading is the easiest part, you churls.

After that, groups had time to work on their Mythological Presentation Projects, which will be due Monday.

HW:

• Prepare Questions for tomorrow's Socratic Circle concerning Heroes
• Bonus link to the Socratic Guidelines for tomorrow
• Read Hercules' chapter.
• Complete his column on the Hero Chart
• Complete one Dialectical Journal.
• Continue to prepare the Multi-Media Presentation Project due Monday
• Don't forget: Membean is still going on!

Jason as Hero; Project Work

First objective for class today was to review Jason's column in the Hero Chart.

The balance of class time was spent working in groups on the Multi-Media Myth Presentation Project (scroll down to see post below.)

HW:

• Read Perseus & Theseus
• Fill out both Hero Columns
• Complete 1 Dialectical Journal entry (two passages total)
• Membean Session 9 is ON! 1/30-2/12
• Continue to work on the Multi-Media Presentation (due Mon)