English I Honors students began working on a look at the monomyth (i.e., Joseph Campbell) and how the Odyssey is an example of that. We’ll be finishing up the Odyssey shortly.

English 8 students are nearing the end of their studies of figurative language in poetry. We’ll be finishing up next week.

Homework

• English 8: 
  • finish the in-class work on figurative language interpretation;
  • continue working on the article of the week as necessary.
• English I Honors: 
  • work on the text from class, annotating the text and preparing a Cornell outline of the material;
  • begin reading the next section of the Odyssey;
  • continue working on the article of the week as necessary.