First and fourth periods completed a final step in scaffolded close reading by marking a text and working to answer an interpretive question without any assistance from anyone. We looked at the heart of Tieresias’s prophecy: ‘Great captain, a fair wind and the...
My wife’s cousin proved it wasn’t a fluke last week by winning a second gold in Olympic ski jumping, this time on the “big” hill (as if there’s a small one for us mere mortals). Congratulations to Kamil Stoch....
First and Fourth periods learned about cultural laws and do’s and don’t’s before applying it to a text from the textbook about hospitality in ancient Greek culture and its role in the Odyssey. Second and fourth periods returned the the question of...
Big, big news on the home front: my wife’s cousin, Kamil Stoch, won the gold medal in ski jumping in Sochi. He was about seventeen when my wife and I married, and he caught the garter at our wedding. He likely considers today’s win slightly more...
First and fourth periods finished up the cyclops scene, adding a new motif to examine as we read the Odyssey: the perfect hero. We began tracing the first element, verbal cleverness: Second and seventh periods finished up the jigsaw reading by getting into new groups...
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