Describing Someone and the Cyclops

First, fourth, and sixth periods worked on poetry, specifically Jacqueline Woodson’s “Describe Someone.” We practiced as a class revising lines to add alliteration and consonance. Students will be doing the same to their own poems for homework.

Second period went over the Cyclops episode in the Odyssey.

Homework

• First period:
  • read “Summer Sky”;
  • answer questions on pages 227-229 in workbook.
• Second period:
  • semi-long term assignments (part of reader response journals for Odyssey):
    • a poem from the cyclop’s point of view;
    • read page 809 then work on the question of hospitality as it’s presented throughout the Odyssey;
  • for Monday: read “The Witches’ Circle”
• Fourth and sixth periods: work on adding consonance and alliteration to your poem.