English I students worked on the introduction of the Odyssey, plotting the opening lines against a diagram of Odysseus’s journies. We determined that several of the lines match up perfectly to his journey and that we can determine a good bit of the story just from those opening lines.

Here’s a closeup of the map:

English 8 students worked on “The Tell-Tale Heart” a bit more, finishing up yesterday’s analysis of selected passages from the story. We determined that the story uses irony in a very specific way: the more the narrator insists on his sanity, the more we doubt his mental health.

Homework

• English 8: work on “Tell-Tale Heart” vocab on Quizlet.
• English I Honors: 
  • work on IXL as necessary;
  • work on Quizlet vocab for AOW;
  • read “Calypso” (on Google Classroom) by Monday.