Here is the sign up sheet so you can see the sequence of presentations Monday 19 September: Usage presentation 6 make-up (Gabby), 7 (Sofia); Keats draft returned in class, discussed Tuesday 20 September: Usage presentation 8 (Erica); Epic, the oral tradition (here is the class handout); book annotation; beginning of Book 1 Wednesday 21 September: Book 1 due; Usage presentation 9 (Damaris); Book 1 discussed; Comparative translations; HW: Comparative translation exercise Thursday 22 September: Usage presentation 10 (Natalia); review of usage presentations so far; Mrs. Walsh presents Book 2 (you are not assigned to read Book 2); Singer of Tales video clips; Comparative translations exercise due: look here and here for examples of interpreted differences; Friday 23 September: Keats vocab quiz; review of usage presentations so far; Notebook #3 due; HW: Comparative translations paragraph Here is the Iliad vocab list, with page numbers. Monday 26 September: Quiz on usage presentations 1–10; Comparative translations paragraph due; Begin reading Book 3 (Teichoskopia) in class; Iliad vocabulary begins Tuesday 27 September: Usage presentation 11 (Sarah); Keats Final Essay due Wednesday 28 September: Usage presentation (Marie); Book 3 due Thursday 29 September: Usage presentation (Susanna); Book 5 due Friday 30 September: Usage presentation (Abby); Book 6 due; Friendship and rhetoric in The Iliad; thesis writing exercise (with an eye to the in-class writing ahead) In lieu of notebook collection, expect a periodic open-notebook quiz. For such a quiz, you will be able to use your notebook but possibly not your annotated book. Make sure you are keeping sufficient notes in your notebook. Monday 3 October: Usage presentation (Kit); Book 9 due Tuesday 4 October: Prep for in-class writing on Book 1, 3, 5, 6, and/or 9 Wednesday 5 October: In-class writing; HW: Read Book 16; consider Iliad projects Thursday 6 October: Usage presentation (Valentina, Georgia A); Book 16 due; Discuss Shield of Achilles (Book 18 not assigned); HW: Read Book 22; Iliad review with sample questions available Friday 7 October: No class; Our Lady of the Rosary Festival Day Monday 10 October: No school; Columbus Day Tuesday 11 October: Usage presentation (Emma); Book 22 due; HW: Read Iliad Book 24 (Peace) Wednesday 12 October: No class; PSAT Thursday 13 October: Usage presentation (Isabella); Finish vocabulary; Book 24 due; Discussion of sample questions; Iliad review Friday 14 October: Further Iliad Review; here are sample review answers; receive options for Iliad project Monday17 October: Iliad test; HW: Consider options for Iliad project; write project proposal Tuesday 18 October: Project proposal due; Workday for project (begin work; refine project topics, parameters, and sources) Wednesday 19 October: Usage Presentation Test 2; Workday for project #2; HW: Work on project Thursday 20 October: Workday for project #3; HW: Substantial project progress Friday 21 October: Check in for project; most work should be done at this point! Monday 24 October: Everyone turns in all materials for project, using Jupiter slot as much as practical; Presentation day 1; here are guidelines for revision of the in-class writing Tuesday 25 October: Presentation day 2; here is the key to the vocab sample quiz Wednesday 26 October: Vocabulary quiz Thursday 27 October: Open-note test on presentations; Oresteia lecture; Begin The Odyssey Friday 28 October: No school Rewrite of the in-class writing due Tuesday, November 1 Comments are closed.
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