10/22 - 11/2 Classroom Discussions and Homework

10/22 - 11/2 Classroom Discussions and Homework

M, 10/22 - Review Phoenicia, Assyria, Babylon, and Persia. Start Homer and Reading Quiz.

Homework: Read Homer #2, pp. 20-27. Due, T, 10/23.
Vocabulary List #8 Due, TH, 10/25
Extension
Fundamentally
Gentlemanly
Grammatically
Grateful
Guidance
Gymnasium
Heroic
Hindrance
Humorist
Hubris

T, 10/23 - The Greek gods & Reading Quiz #2.

Homework: Read Homer #3, pp. 28-42, Due, W, 10/24. Second Term Writing Assignment: Write a Greek Myth using dialogue and focusing on details and description. Pick a myth by (A) Friday, 10/26 or (B) Friday, 11/2.

W, 10/24 - Super Heroes & Reading Quiz #3.

Homework: Read Homer #4, pp. 69-82, Due, TH, 10/25. Write a paragraph about your favorite super hero and why he is your favorite. Due, TH, 10/25.

TH, 10/25 - Greek map and Minoan Krete

Homework: Read Homer #5, pp. 93-106. Pick your myth!
**Near East Food Project: Bring some Near East food to share. Due, W, 10/31.

(A) Friday, 10/26 and (B) Friday, 11/2
Share which Greek myth you will be writing about for your project. First draft is due (A) Friday, 11/9, (B) Friday, 11/16. Socratic Discussion: Why are we so obsessed with Super Heroes????

M, 10/29 - Greek Vocabulary & Myceanean and Early Archaic Greece

Homework: Read Homer #6, pp. 153-174.
Vocabulary List #9, Due TH, 11/1.
Hygiene
Hypocrisy
Illustrate
Imitation
Immense
Inability
Incidentally
Indispensable
Influential
Innocence
Inquiry
Institute

T, 10/30 - Homer and Early Greece

Homework: Read Homer #7, pp. 175-187. Write a paragraph on your favorite part of the Iliad which you have read (so far). **DO NOT FORGET--Near East Food Project for W, 10/31.

W, 10/31 - HALLOWEEN - The beginning of Holidays, Near East food and games

NO HOMEWORK

Th, 11/1 - The Colonization of Greeks and Sophocles

Homework: Read Homer #8, pp. 188-195.