Wednesday 9/29

• Continued with notes on the Lesson from the Goddess
• Analyzed some more scenes from the movie version of the Odyssey

HW: read "Odysseus's Revenge" -- Personal Narrative due Friday -- TKM Second half check on Monday

Tuesday 9/28

• We finished reading and annotating the underworld scene
• We began looking at some scenes from an Odyssey movie for comparable lessons.

HW: Read "Penelope" & "The Challenge"

Monday 9/28

• We read the episode in the Odyssey where the hero meets his mother in the underworld -- annotated the text
  

HW: Read the "Argus" & "Suitors" episode (Finish Part Two by Friday)

Friday 9/28

• We continued with the "Power of Myth" program -- the Goddess

HW: Read 895-900 of The Odyssey in the textbook

Thursday 9/23

• Peer assessment of personal narrative -- round 2

Wednesday 9/22

• Students finished taking notes on "The Big Picture" the Odyssey

HW: Journal entry -- identify a time when you had to make a sacrifice, then identify a time when you were victorious (a "winner" at something, etc.). Respond: do these two events have anything in common?

Tuesday 9/21

• Students took notes on the "Big Picture" of the Odyssey.
  

Monday 9/20

• Students practiced some reading comprehension strategies on The Odyssey
• We began some notes on reading the structure of the adventure

HW: Read the Sirens episode

Friday 9/17

• We finished assessing the sample personal narrative
• Grammar lesson: basic diagramming (in one section only)

HW: Read the "Land of the Dead" episode in The Odyssey; journal entry for the week: Reflect on a new responsibility or freedom you have (or maybe one you wish you had) now that you are of highschool age.

Thursday 9/16

• Students peer assessed personal narratives using the rubric that will be used to assess their own writing.

HW: Read the Cyclops episode in your textbook by Friday

Wednesday 9/15

• Test day!

HW: For Friday -- read the Cyclops episode from your textbook

Tuesday 9/14

• We finsihed our test review -- test tomorrow
• We used a graphic organizer to identify the structure of the Odyssey as a work
  

Monday 9/13

• We reviewed for the first unit test; we did not finish, so we will continue tomorrow and the test will be Wednesday.
  

Friday 9/10

• Read check on Mockingbird, first half
• Power of Myth Continued -- The Goddess

HW -- Journal entry -- what is your personal response to the Matriarchy thesis -- whatever -- what is your response to the idea of valuation or de-valuation of the feminine role of mothering and the analogy of that to the natural world?

Thrusday 9/9

• We finished up our reading and annotation of the D'aulaire theogony
• We briefly discussed the main points of the Death-Burial-Rebirth thesis
• The first writing assignment -- Personal Narrative -- was discussed
  

HW: Mockingbird checktest (through Ch 13) tomorrow

Wednesday 9/8

• We continued with our critical reading of the Daulaire's Theogony

HW: Check test on Mockingbird through Chapter 13 on Friday

Tuesday 9/7

• We began a process of readig critically the D'aulaires theogony

HW: Read the "Death-Burial-Rebirth" pdf on the Primitive Ritual page on the website. Be ready of the read check through Chapter 13 of Mockingbird by Friday.

Friday 9/3

• Power of Myth Friday: Watch segments of the Joseph Campbell interview, discuss, respond in study guide

HW: The half-way read check on Mockingbird will be this Friday

Thursday 9/2

• Grammar Exercises -- evaluate the diagnostic test & adverb lessons and exercises
• Journal share

HW: finish adverb exercises

Wednesday 9/1

• Students worked in groups and presented on the topic of matriarch in the Greek myths.

HW: Journal Entry -- Do you think there are essential differences between the genders? Explain in terms of your own experience and opinion and belief.

Tuesday 8/31

• Today we discusse the Harrison thesis that Poseidon was a transformation of a Minoan bull god.

HW; Read the article on the "Primitive Ritual" page "The Meaning of Minoan Bull Jumping"