English I Honors students began the second half of the Odyssey today, looking at the elements of an epic hero that Odysseus exhibits:

• Extraordinary strength and courage
• Cleverness and deceit, also known as guile
• Extreme confidence and a tendency to dismiss warnings.

We’ll finish up with it throughout the week.

English 8 students continued working with figurative language as we work through our short poetry unit, which should be done by Winter Break.

Homework

• English 8: 
  • work on Quizlet vocab for the Q2 AOW;
  • work on IXL as needed (see Google Calendar for details).
• English I Honors: 
  • read “The Epic Continues,” “The Test of the Great Bow,” and “Death in the Palace from the Odyssey (available at Google Classroom and Moodle);
  • complete the phrase work by 22 November;
  • work on Quizlet vocab for the Q2 AOW;
  • work on IXL as needed (see Google Calendar for details).