The Odyssey Begins!

Welcome back from Ice-Week 2015. In light of recent weather patterns, we've had to rearrange some things.

We no longer have time to do The Trojan War. You only really need to know 3 things about it:

• It goes on for 10 years.
• Greece wins (google Trojan Horse).
• Odysseus was the Greek general who thought up the winning strategy. Now he has to go home.

The story of Odysseus going home after the Trojan War is the basic premise of:

The Odyssey

Today, students read Lit. Textbook pages 1040E-F, which focused on Homer as well as the genre of Epic Poems.

Here is a link to the handout that accompanied those pages.

We also looked at the word "abridged." Page one of the students' version of The Odyssey is the exact same as page one of the real book.

Page 2 of the student version picks up on page 145 of the real version.

The student version begins an in medias res story in medias res. More on that later.

HW:

• Your Lit. Textbook now comes to class every day. No, you cannot leave it in my classroom. It leaves with you every day as well.
• Membean window closes next Saturday. If you did vocab studying over the break, it'll still count. See me, or e-mail me, for details.