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week 10
green/white 1 march 8, 9
Green Order Students: SIGN UP FOR WRITING CONFERENCE
White Order Students: Today we will walk through an in-class editing process and put up on the board one or two of the better drafts I’ve seen so far.
HOMEWORK FOR OUR NEXT MEETING:
Remember that the final draft of your Odyssey essay is due this week. You should also practice, practice, practice for your passage recitation.
green/white 2 march 10, 11
RECITATION DAY!
HOMEWORK FOR OUR NEXT MEETING:
Have an amazing break! Don’t forget to order your copy of Romeo and Juliet.
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week 9
green/white 1 march 1, 2
Green Order Students: We’ll begin by looking at a number of your thesis statements and topic sentences before you have the remainder of the time to continue your first draft.
White Order Students: You have a sub today as I take a group of tennis players to a tournament. You are to spread out in the house seats in the Lohman Theater and get to work.
HOMEWORK FOR OUR NEXT MEETING:
Remember that your first draft is due on Friday. If you plan to meet with me during office hours on Flex Wednesday, find the sign-up below.
The final draft is due next week. Your passage recitation is also due at the end of next week.
Don’t forget to order your copy of Romeo and Juliet.
FLEX WEDNESDAY march 3
SIGN UP FOR WRITING CONFERENCE
green/white 2 march 4, 5
Today we’ll compare Tennyson’s Ulysses to Homer’s Odysseus.
Here is the unannotated version of Tennyson’s “Ulysses”.
Here is the partially annotated version of Tennyson’s “Ulysses”.
HOMEWORK FOR OUR NEXT MEETING:
The final draft is due next week. Your passage recitation is also due at the end of next week.
Don’t forget to order your copy of Romeo and Juliet.
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week 8
green/white 1 february 22, 23
Today we’ll begin with a discussion about Books 21 and 22. We’ll then review the parts of a thesis statement by looking at a few of my own samples.
I’ll give you the chance to work on and submit this assignment we began before everything turned upside down for a week. If you submitted already, you’ll have this time to finalize a thesis and topic sentences. Those need to be posted to turnitin.com by our next class.
If you’re choosing Essay Option A, follow these instructions: Revisit the values of the Grad at Grad on SJ’s webpage. I’d like you to choose the two Grad at Grad principles that you think are most applicable to Homer’s Odyssey. Begin to think about some ways Odysseus struggles with, learns about, or practices your chosen Grad at Grad value. Do this by reading through the description of each value completely and recalling moments in the Odyssey that apply. By our next class, as a means of beginning the assignment, I’d like you to complete this document, save as a PDF, and post to turnitin.com. Before you can develop a complete idea, you want to find as many quotes from the entire poem as you can that you think have something to do with your chosen characteristic. Then I’d like you to write a sentence or two that explains how the quote pertains to the principle of the Grad at Grad. For each principle, please find no fewer than 4 quotes and no more than 8.
If you’re choosing Essay Option B, follow these instructions: Using some blank sheets of paper, begin the brainstorming process just like we did in class yesterday. Don’t be limited in your approach. Anything goes at this point. If you’d like help processing all of the data you recall, just let me know, and I’ll help you think it through.
HOMEWORK FOR OUR NEXT MEETING:
(1) Finish reading Homer’s Odyssey!
(2) Complete and post your portion of this doc to turnitin.com.
green/white 2 february 24, 25
Today we’ll conclude our discussion of Homer’s Odyssey. We’ll then look at a few sample body paragraphs found below.
You’ll also have time today to work on your thesis and topic sentences. I’ll even ask a few of you to share yours with the class.
HOMEWORK FOR OUR NEXT MEETING:
Please use the long weekend to work on your essay. A full draft is still due March 4/5.
Please purchase this copy of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Have it ready to go in class on March 22/23.
what's due?
February 24/25 - Thesis and Topic Sentences
March 4/5 - Odyssey Essay Draft
March 10/11 - Odyssey Passage Recitation
March 10/11 - Odyssey Essay Final
Study guide for remote students
current text to have daily
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everything i learned about being a good person i learned from reading homer
Lesson 1 : From Book One, line 37: “Ah how shameless—the way these mortals blame the gods.”
Lesson 2 : From Books One through Four—The Telemachy
Lesson 3 : From Book Five, line 37: You must return home “on a lashed, makeshift raft and wrung with pains.”
Lesson 4 : From Book Five, lines 239-43: All that you say is true… Nevertheless I long—I pine, all my days—to travel home.”
Lesson 5 : From Book Five, lines 266-83
Lesson 6 : From Books Nine through Twelve: Odysseus tells his own story
Lesson 7 : From Book Nine, lines 17-32: “Now let me begin by telling you my name…”
Lesson 8 : From Book Nine, lines 86-117: The lesson of the Lotus-Eaters
Lesson 9 : From Book Nine, lines 556-63: “So they begged but they could not bring my fighting spirit round… ‘say Odysseus, raider of cities, he gouged out your eye, Laertes’ son who makes his home in Ithaca.”
Lesson 10 : From Books Eleven and Twelve: The lesson of Elpenor
Lesson 11 : From Book Eleven, line 500, Agamemnon’s warning to Odysseus in Hades: “So even your own wife—never indulge her too far.”
Lesson 12 : From Book Twelve, lines 233-40: “You men at the thwarts—lay on with your oars and strike the heaving swells…”
Lesson 13 : From Book Thirteen, line 482: “I escorted your son myself so he might make his name by sailing there.”
STUDYING homer
The Hero’s Journey of Joseph Campbell
Some discussion questions for The Odyssey
The beginning of the Kansas State study guide
Layers of Meaning in The Odyssey
What the epic can teach us about encounters with strangers
docs to have handy
A step-by-step guide to writing the essay (“Sonny’s Blues” Edition)
Breaking up a thesis into topic sentences
The Single Story Supplemental Readings
OUR VIRTUAL CLASSROOM CODE
Each time we’d have a regularly scheduled class, you’ll follow this link and enter code:
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enjoying literature
“In the realm of narrative psychology, a person’s life story is not a Wikipedia biography of the facts and events of a life, but rather the way a person integrates those facts and events internally—picks them apart and weaves them back together to make meaning. This narrative becomes a form of identity, in which the things someone chooses to include in the story, and the way she tells it, can both reflect and shape who she is. A life story doesn’t just say what happened, it says why it was important, what it means for who the person is, for who they’ll become, and for what happens next.”
