Thursday, November 19, 2015

Week 11

I'm enjoying our discussions more and more.  You are all getting better at narrations and at finding interesting things to bring up in class.  Its a joy to teach you!

This week we talked about some helpful tools to clarify your blues.  You can use the following symbols in your margin to remind yourself why you thought a particular passage was important. Try experimenting with these this week:

a lightbulb - something stood out to you, clarified another idea, or answers a question you had
a question mark - you have a particular question about this passage
an arrow - you think this passage has an interesting life application
a cross - you see shadows of stories or truths from the Bible in this passage

As we approach the end of the semester, please check your assignment record for any work that still needs to be checked off.  Remember that it is your responsibility to check for missing work and to approach me at the break to get that checked off.  The following people are up to date on resubmissions:

Lauren Rape
Luke Gray
John Picard
Savanna McGallion

If you do not see your name, please check the assignment record to see what you are missing.  All work must be marked A or E in order for you to receive an A (All work complete) for the fall semester.

Writing Assignment

  • Choose a new issue from either a myth or The Odyssey and begin a new ANI chart.  Since we only meet twice more, we'll work on this ANI chart for the rest of this semester rather than write a new essay.  For those of you who are joining me in the spring, you can use this ANI chart to write essay 3, so hang on to it!  You will need 10 reasons in each column by our next class on December 3.  You can add 10 more for the last week, for a total of 20 by 12/10.
  • Comparison I worksheet (pg 23) - list 10 similarities in each column
Reading Assignment

DeAulaires'
  • The myth of Orpheus p. 102-104
Metamorphoses
  • Orpheus and Eurydice pp. 341-344
Sir Orfeo

I look forward to comparing this "Christianized" retelling of the Orpheus myth to the pagan version.  As you read this week, try to think of similarities and differences between the tales.  What 'are' they both?  What do they both 'have'?  What do they both 'do'?  Are there any critical differences?  Do you think Sir Orfeo more closely reflects the gospel?  If so, why?

It's not necessary to highlight in Sir Orfeo (you can if you want to).  For each section, write one or two sentences summarizing/narrating the section.  You are basically making your own prose version of the poem.  Do try to use the new symbols we discussed (lightbulb, question mark, arrow, cross).  

  • 1-24
  • 25-56
  • 57-76
  • 77-88
  • 89-116
  • 117-130
  • 131-148
  • 149-162
  • 163-174
  • 175-190
  • 191-200
  • 201-218
  • 219-226
  • 227-240
  • 241-264
  • 265-280
  • 281-296
  • 297-314
  • 315-330
  • 331-342
  • 343-354
  • 355-372
  • 373-386
  • 387-404
  • 405-416
  • 417-428
  • 429-434
  • 435-446
  • 447-456
  • 457-462
  • 463-476
  • 477-490
  • 491-496
  • 497-510
  • 511-518
  • 519-530
  • 531-534
  • 535-548
  • 549-574
  • 575-582
  • 583-591
  • 592-595
  • 596-end




Thursday, November 12, 2015

Week 10

I was so glad to see you all today after our 2 week break.  What a great discussion!  Thank you for being prepared despite the time gap between classes.

Writing Assignment:

  • Check the record of assignments to see if you have any incomplete work to turn in.
  • Complete workbook pages 16 and 19 on Parallelism.
  • Review the essay samples for essay 2 on pages 118 - 120.  Notice that these samples do not indent the first line of each paragraph.  Instead, they skip lines between paragraphs. You will need to add the indention in your essay. Do not skip lines between paragraphs.  
  • Write essay 2 from your outline using the checklist on page 109.  Compose one sentence for each main proof and one sentence for each sub proof.  Paragraphs 2-4 should contain exactly 4 sentences each.  
  • Add parallelism to your essay at least once and mark it so I can find it easily.  If you are comfortable with the new idea, add parallelism in a few additional places for more practice.  
  • Make a copy of the checklist and attach it to the front of your essay.
  • Ask an adult to proof read your paper for mechanical errors (grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, etc.).  Errors are hard to spot in your own writing. 
Reading Assignment:

The Odyssey Book 12
  • 1-110
  • 111-221
  • 222-302
  • 303-end
DeAulaires

read pages 132-146
  • pgs. 132 - 139 (Luke narrate)
  • pgs. 140-146 (Corbin narrate)

Metamorphoses Book 9

  • read sections about Hercules (first 6)


Saturday, November 7, 2015