Assignments may be handed in on paper in class or electronically as PDFs through the Jupiter assignment turn-in.
Feel free to refer to this outline of The Iliad to help you manage the gaps as we read only selected books. Week 1 Thursday 3 September (F/0): Welcome, policies, poem practice Friday 4 September (F/1): Poem due Week 2 Tuesday 8 September (F/2): Epic, the oral tradition, book annotation, beginning of Book 1 Wednesday 9 September (F/3): No class; Bio instead Thursday 10 September (F/4): Iliad Book 1 due; vocabulary assigned; write your vocabulary on the discussion forum on Jupiter (try today so you can ask questions Friday if needed) Friday 11 September (F/5): Finish in-class activity reporting; Mrs. Walsh presents Book 2 (you are not assigned to read Book 2) Singer of Tales video clips; Comparative translations exercise: look here and here for examples of interpreted differences; have you posted your vocabulary word to the discussion forum? Use Merriam Webster or American Heritage Dictionary for definition. Use Online Etymology Dictionary for etymology. Week 3 Monday 14 September (F/6): Comparative translations notes due; Vocabulary word due; Vocabulary discussion in class Tuesday 15 September (F/0): Blend and cite exercise in class; Book 3 excerpts in class. Here is the Laura Nesbitt "Consider the Lobster" piece we used as an example Wednesday 16 September (F/1): First attempt blend and cite due; Begin Book 5 (Diomedes) in class Thursday 17 September (F/2): First half of Book 5 due Friday 18 September (F/3): No class; Bio instead Week 4 Monday 21 September (F/4): Final blend and cite due; Second half of Book 5 due; Book 5 SQs from class (1–8), second half of Book 5 questions Tuesday 22 September (F/5): No class; summer reading discussions instead Wednesday 23 September (F/6): Iliad Book 6 due; Vocab sample quiz in class to show format, etc. Thursday 24 September (F/0): Friendship and rhetoric in The Iliad; thesis writing exercise (with an eye to the in-class writing ahead) Friday 25 September (F/1): Iliad Book 9 due Week 5 Monday 28 September (F/2): Vocabulary quiz; Prep for in-class writing on Book 1, 5, 6, and/or 9 Tuesday 29 September (F/3): No class; Bio instead Wednesday 30 September (F/4): In-class writing Thursday 1 October (F/5): Iliad Book 16 due Friday 2 October (F/6): Book 18 in class; Iliad project options distributed Here are Iliad project sign-ups so far. Week 6 Monday 5 October (F/0): Iliad Book 22 (Death of Hector) due (here is the in-class handout); Iliad review with sample questions available; commit to your project Tuesday 6 October (F/1): Iliad Book 24 (Peace) due; discussion of some sample quotation identification questions; project proposal due for students inventing their own topics Wednesday 7 October (F/2): Iliad review Thursday 8 October (F/3): No class; Bio instead Friday 9 October (F/4): Iliad test; book annotations due; notebook due for notes check Week 7 Monday 12 October : Columbus Day; No school Tuesday 13 October (F/5): Workday for Iliad project; bring devices; work in groups; have materials to accomplish good work in class Wednesday 14 October (F/6): No class; PSAT Thursday 15 October (F/0): Sources due for Iliad project; lesson on MLA Works Consulted page; presentation notes and advice Friday 16 October (F/1): Project building; update due at the end of class Week 8 Monday 19 October (F/2): Iliad project due; presentations in class Tuesday 20 October (F/3): No class; Bio instead Wednesday 21 October (F/4): More project presentations; Iliad in-class re-write meetings Thursday 22 October (F/5): Last project presentations; continue to work on Iliad in-class re-write Friday 23 October (F/6): Iliad in-class rewrite workday Week 9 Monday 26 October (F/0): Iliad in-class rewrite due |