Week 2

Our class is off to a great start!  I was very pleased with this first round of narrations and discussion.  We'll continue reading, highlighting, and writing narrations for next week's reading.

I have set up our assignment record (click on the picture of the greek guy with his ancient laptop and stylus to the right).  Please check this record weekly to see if you have any previous work to complete. Next week I will assign the letters for the columns on the assignment sheet.

Each Thursday I will check the current week's reading during the break.  I'll also take up written assignments, both for the current week and previous weeks.  If a student needs a previously assigned reading assignment checked off, it is the STUDENT'S RESPONSIBILITY to come to me at break time and show that the reading has been completed.   Incomplete assignments are always due the very next week!  In the absence of extenuating circumstances (severe illness/injury, family crisis, etc. ) parents will need to assess incomplete work not resubmitted after the second week.

Week 2 reading:

The Odyssey  - Book 2
narration sections

• 1-81 (Telemachus takes the scepter)
• 82-145 (who is to blame?)
• 146-207 (prophecy and response)
• 208-223 (Telemachus' plan)
• 224-257 (Mentor's indictment - suitor's response)
• 258-300 (Telemachus and Athene)
• 301-320 (Antinoos and Telemachus)
• 321-356 (plan of the suitors)
• 357-412 (preparations)
• 413-end (setting out)

Ovid's Metamorphoses - Book 2

Read all, but narrate only the following sections

• Phaethon
• Jove and Europa

DeAulaires

Read and narrate these sections

• The Muses (pg 100-101)
• Eurpoa (pg 108 - first 5 paragraphs)
• bring last week's narration of Phaethon (pgs. 82-84)