First and fourth periods compared their work with an independent summary of The Hero with a Thousand Faces in order to assess their accuracy. They began afterward working to apply Campbell's ideas...
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Paraphrasing the Hardest Text We’ve Ever Read
First and fourth Periods worked to complete the paraphrasing of each passage everyone was given. After completing this they wrote three things that they think will happen before and after their...
Comma Completion and Paraphrasing
First and fourth periods continued with their paraphrases of excerpts of Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. It's a challenge, for passages read like this: Refusal of the summons...
Heroes and Commas
Today of first and fourth periods we started the group work with The Hero with A Thousand Faces. We're trying to look at the meaning of the text and how it relates to The Odyssey. We've started by...
Paraphrasing and Easily Confusing Words
First and fourth periods worked on changing their topic sentences from Friday's homework. Students shared work, and we collaboratively revised the sentences. First period examples Assuming she's...
Sentence Types and Commonly Confused Notes Practice
First and fourth periods worked on improving their sentence variety for the upcoming PASS test. We looked at a handout on various sentence types that we will be incorporating into our writing now....
Wrapped Around Commonly Confused Words
First and fourth periods had an in-depth study of the song "Wrapped Around Your Finger." We broke into pairs to figure out the meaning of the song. Second and seventh periods reviewed homework and...
Story Lines, Allusions, Effective Readers’ Skills, and Mean Coworkers
Today in first and fourth periods we looked at the strange, non-linear story line of The Odyssey. Also we looked at the song "Wrapped Around Your Finger" by The Police and began working on a close...
Unscaffolded Close Reading, Cornell Practice, and PASS Work
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...
Double Do’s and Don’t’s
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....
Media and Puzzle Assembly
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...
Homeric Similes and Jigsaw Reading
First and Fourth Periods had a short quiz on Odysseus's encounter with the Lotus Eaters and Polyphemus. They also worked on locating Homeric Similes. Second and seventh periods worked on jigsaw...
