English I students worked on the start of the new unit covering briefly the elements of an epic and what an epic simile looks like (very briefly). We then turned to infinitive phrases in order to prepare finish up verbal phrases before moving on to appositives, a...
English I Honors began looking at the question of how various artists using various media over various centuries have re-imagined Calypso. We looked at the etymology of Calypso’s name: The etymology of Calypso’s name is from kalypto, meaning “to...
After building some background knowledge, English I Honors students finally began reading the Odyssey. Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years on end, after he plundered the...
First and fourth periods looked at what epics, and a new method of note taking, the Cornell Method. We’ll be returning to text structure and the Odyssey next week. Second and seventh periods had a modified lesson in which all mini-lessons for text structure were...
Second and fourth periods reviewed the reading from homework that dealt with the section titled in our textbook “I Am Laertes’ Son,” which includes Odysseus’ arrival at Phaeacia and the initiation of his story of the journey from Troy to...
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