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Topic in Class |
Assignment due |
12/1 WIT |
SSR BOOK TALKS |
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12/2 |
No Class Per. 1... Invocation - Gilligan's Island... Odyssey-Part I -- flashback Odysseus' Quest: No Place Like Home |
Write the invocation for YOUR epic with an appropriate MUSE (a spirit or diety that would KNOW and UNDERSTAND your trials) |
12/5 |
Odyssey - part I Calypso and Poseidon |
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12/6 WIT |
Check on reading goal. Were you successful why or why not? Set reading goal for 12/13 |
Respond to question on team blog: Locate ONE of the stages/features on the hero's journey in your book. (Example: mentor, crossing the threshold)Explain how this stage/feature is part of your character's journey. |
12/7 |
Cicones, Land of Lotus Eaters, Polyphemus Names and civility |
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12/8 WIT |
SSR Connect your book to ONE of yesterday's adventures in ODYSSEY
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12/9 |
Winds of Aeolous & Circe Identity |
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12/12 |
S-V) Circe & Land of Dead Bennett: Sirens and Scylla & Charybdis temptresses and dilemmas |
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12/13 WIT |
S-V) Wamogossey started then SSR Check on reading goal. Were you successful why or why not? |
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12/14 |
S-V) More Odyssey Sirens / Scylla&Charybdis The Impossible Choice-Scylla and Charybdis Bennett: Telemachus' & Penelope's trials |
Respond to question on team blog: Who/What is the Syclla and/or Charybdis (the impossible choice) in your book? Explain |
12/15 WIT |
Wamogossey Odysseus returns home |
Blog post due Set new reading goal for post-holidays |
12/16 |
Argus, The suitors |
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12/19 |
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12/20 WIT |
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Respond to question on team blog: When a character “returns home” or revisits a place, things are not always the same. Explain how this happens in your book OR in another book you have read. |
12/21 |
Projects Due -6 episodes Mrs. Bennett's classes will write their invocations for their Wamogosseys. Ms. S-V's classes will ID the 5 steps in a film and find examples (if possible) |
Vocab 4 words definitions written out for tomorrow! |
12/22 WIT |
EXTRA CREDIT PROJECTS DUE BLOG on No Place like Home after SSR |
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JANUARY PREVIEW |
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1/3/12 WIT |
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1/4 |
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1/5 WIT |
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Reading Resolutions for 2012 posted on blog |
1/6 |
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