The Odyssey Part 1: Learning Centers

The Odyssey: Part 1 (The Voyage)

STAND UP QUIZ

In a few minutes, you will be given a quiz. To receive an A on the quiz, each of you will only need to answer ONE question correctly. The quiz will cover all of Part 1 of "The Odyssey". Review important events, characters, settings, and vocabulary.

Put your Active Reading Guide and Summary Chart in the bin!

Today's Objective:

The Odyssey, Part 1: Standards-based Learning Centers

Center #3: Analysis and Comparisons

of Multiple Mediums

Center #2: Text Structure & Mapping Activity

Center #1: Evaluating an Argument

Standards Addressed:

9-10.RI.8: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning.

Standards Addressed:

9-10.RL.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text

9-10.RL.5: Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it, and manipulate time create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise

Wednesday, December 10th, 2015

Standards Addressed:

• 9-10.RL.7: Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).

Please sit in the groups below.

Homework in bin:

Active Reading Packet, Summative Assessment

and signed Progress report

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Greek myth Icarus and Daedalus

Group #1a

Group #2a

Group #3a

Raquel

Ivan

Javier

Qua'Zahun

Leo

Katherine

Madelinne

Herbie

Raul

Kheper-Ra

Group #2b

Group# 3b

Tee'Onjra

Allan

Emmanuel

Gabby

Nina

Jaqwez

Michael

Instructions:

• Go to teacher page under English 09

Student Links.

• Click on provided link for Edcite
• Enter proper name
• Complete and submit assignment

Instructions:

• Throughout The Odyssey, Odysseus as the narrator tells you where he is going, but the story jumps around in time.
• Your job is to trace the journey Odysseus takes from Troy to Ithaca by creating a map.
• Provide a quote and line numbers that demonstrate how Odysseus overcame that obstacle at theparticular location.
• Create a map key and a symbol for each location

Instructions:

• Read the passage.
• Study the painting.
• Complete the OPTIC graphic organizer.
• Complete the standard-based multiple

choice questions.

Do Now: Work together to complete the "ABC Brainstorming" handout. For each letter, write a word or phrase that you remember from The Odyssey.

Let me know if you can not log in with your student id

Each group member must submit a completed activity as directed.

Due before the end of class!

Center #4: Literary Elements

Exit Ticket: 3-2-1

• Three ways this lesson connected to the standards
• Two questions you have
• One prediction for Part Two of the epic

Standards Addressed:

9-10.RL.4: Determing the meaning of words & phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).

Homework:

Complete any unfinished assignments

Instructions:

• Look up each line number(s) indicated on the graphic organizer to find the quote.
• Determine which literary element is at work (use the work bank to help!).
• Record the quote.
• Answer the question provided in the right column.

You may want to answer on separate paper.