First and fourth periods worked on Calypso again and comparing the song to the poem. We worked with partners to identify differences in the relationships and Calypso herself, looking Samuel Palmer’s 1848–9 painting The Departure of Ulysses from the Isle of Calypso in the conclusion.

Samuel Palmer (1805–1881)
The Departure of Ulysses from the Isle of Calypso, 1848–9

We finished up looking at the work we’d done and completing some informal writing planning based on the notes we’d created.

First and fourth period notes

Second and seventh periods combined the last two skills and worked on determining both the main idea of a text and its text structure.

Homework

• English I Honors: read 1043-1059 of the Odyssey. (Students without a book will need to do the reading in the morning.)