Homer's+Odyssey

=12/8/09= =Bellwork: Get ready to present. We will begin in as soon as the bell rings.=


 * Activities**
 * Bellwork
 * Odysseus character map presentations


 * Goals**
 * Support ideas with evidence from text
 * Reflect
 * Read

12/7/09 Bellwork: Get ready to present. We will begin in as soon as the bell rings.


 * Activities**
 * Bellwork
 * Odysseus character map presentations


 * Goals**
 * Support ideas with evidence from text
 * Reflect
 * Read

12/4/09 Bellwork: With your partner, continue work on your Character Map.


 * Activities**
 * Bellwork
 * Odysseus character map


 * Goals**
 * Support ideas with evidence from text
 * Reflect
 * Read

12/3/09 Bellwork: With your partner, continue work on your Character Map.


 * Activities**
 * Bellwork
 * Odysseus character map


 * Goals**
 * Support ideas with evidence from text
 * Reflect
 * Read

12/2/09 Bellwork: With your partner, continue work on your Character Map. //If you were absent yesterday, come see me for a partner.//


 * Activities**
 * Bellwork
 * Odysseus character map


 * Goals**
 * Support ideas with evidence from text
 * Reflect
 * Read

Bellwork: With your partner, get a sheet of butcher paper and draw the outline of a human body from the waist, up.


11/30/09 Bellwork: Which part of the "Odyssey" is your favorite? Explain using at least three sentences.

Activities
 * Bellwork
 * Finish reading Homer's Odyssey
 * Odysseus character map

Goals
 * Support ideas with evidence from text
 * Reflect
 * Read

Assignment

11/24/09 Bellwork Make a list of ten things that have happened to Odysseus so far. You can do this with a partner if you are both working.

Activities
 * Bellwork
 * Correct vocabulary test
 * Finish reading Homer's Odyssey

Goals
 * Support ideas with evidence from text
 * Increase vocabulary
 * Reflect
 * Read

11/23/09 Bellwork: Study for your vocabulary test. We will take it 5 minutes after the bell.

Activities
 * Bellwork
 * SAT Vocabulary
 * Odyssey storyboard

Goals
 * Support ideas with evidence from text
 * Increase vocabulary
 * Reflect
 * Read
 * 6th is on page 888.
 * 7th is on page 892.

11/20/09 Bellwork, on your own. Vocabulary test on Monday!!!
 * Create vocabulary flash cards
 * word
 * definition
 * symbolic picture

11/19/09 Bellwork, On your Own.


 * Complete "What's in a name?" handout.
 * Short answer tips:
 * Answer--Explain--Corroborate
 * Restate the question.
 * Make sure the explanation makes sense.
 * Make sure the corroboration is a direct quote.
 * Prove that you can be logical, not just that you know the answer.



Activities
 * Bellwork
 * SAT Vocabulary
 * Odyssey storyboard

Goals
 * Support ideas with evidence from text
 * Increase vocabulary
 * Reflect
 * Read
 * 6th is on page 888.
 * 7th is on page 892.

11/18/09 Bellwork, On your Own. = =
 * Complete "Cent to College" handout.
 * **Remember to Answer--Explain--Corroborate**



Activities
 * Bellwork
 * SAT Vocabulary
 * Odyssey storyboard

Goals
 * Support ideas with evidence from text
 * Increase vocabulary
 * Reflect
 * Read:
 * 6th is at beginning of Lord Helios story
 * 7th is at end of Lord Helios story

11/17/09 Bellwork, On your Own. Complete "Boy glues hand to bed to avoid school handout."

Answer this question instead for the short answer: Do you think Diego will try this again? (7th only)

Remember to Answer--Explain--Corroborate

Activities
 * Bellwork
 * SAT Vocabulary
 * Odyssey storyboard

Goals
 * Support ideas with evidence from text
 * Increase vocabulary
 * Reflect

Resources**

11/16/09 Bellwork What day of the week is it? List three different ways you might know that.

Activities
 * Bellwork
 * SAT Vocabulary
 * Homer's Odyssey short answer
 * Assignment: Short answer: How did Odysseus's attitude impact his experience with the Cyclops?
 * Read:
 * 6th is at middle of Siren Story
 * 7th is at beginning of Lord Helios story

Goals
 * Support ideas with evidence from text
 * Increase vocabulary
 * Reflect

11/13/09 Bellwork
 * Rank the items from your bellwork yesterday from best to worst.
 * Write down exactly how old you were for items that happened in the same year (12.5, 12.75)

Activities
 * Bellwork
 * SAT Vocabulary
 * Lifeline: Fill in the Lifeline Chart with the life events from your bellwork yesterday. (--5=worst, +5=best)
 * Connect the events with a line, in the order they happened. Analyze the line.
 * Does it slope upward or downward?
 * Does it look like a zig-zag?
 * Is most of the stuff spread out or clumped together?
 * Are the highest and lowest points on the chart from when you are younger or older?
 * Was there a year or two when a bunch of significant stuff happened?
 * Assignment: Write a 3-4 sentence paragraph on the back, explaining the answers to the questions above. The first half of the first sentence: I think my lifeline is shaped the way it is because...

Goals
 * Increase vocabulary
 * Use a math skill in English
 * Reflect

Resources

= = 11/12/09 Bellwork (two parts, one sheet of paper)
 * 1) Make a list of the top five and bottom five events of your life. If one is too personal, you don't have to list it. Next to each item, write down how old you were at the time.
 * 2) Get out a book. Find at least three examples of Odysseus's cockiness in the Cyclops story. It starts on page 866.

Activities
 * Bellwork
 * Grades
 * Lifeline
 * Homer's Odyssey short answer
 * Assignment: If you have a failing grade, get your progress report signed.

Goals
 * Support ideas with evidence from text
 * Reflect

11/11/09 Bellwork: What would you say to someone you love, whom you haven't seen in 20 years? Explain how you would want the meeting to go in 4-5 sentences.

Activities
 * Bellwork
 * SAT Vocabulary
 * Homer's Odyssey storyboard
 * Assignment: make up a why/how multiple choice (not T/F) question about the Odyssey. (6th only)

Goals
 * Read for comprehension
 * Increase vocabulary
 * Reflect

11/10/09 Bellwork:
 * On your own.
 * Make a pie chart with these categories:
 * percentage of the US population that are primarily leaders
 * percentage of the US population that are primarily followers
 * percentage of the US population that are neither
 * Explain how you came up with your percentages in 3-4 sentences.

Activities
 * Bellwork
 * SAT Vocabulary
 * Homer's Odyssey storyboard
 * Assignment: make up a why/how multiple choice (not T/F) question about the Odyssey. (7th only)

Goals
 * Read for comprehension
 * Increase vocabulary
 * Reflect

As of 11/10, 6th period has read to pg. 872 and 7th period has read to pg. 874 in the //Odyssey//.

11/9/09 Bellwork: What is the best way to deal with a bully? Explain in 4-5 sentences.

Activities
 * Bellwork
 * SAT Vocabulary
 * Homer's Odyssey storyboard

Goals
 * Read for comprehension
 * Increase vocabulary
 * Reflect

11/6/09 BellworkWhich is more important: to be clever or to be strong? Explain in 4-5 sentences. Activities
 * Bellwork
 * SAT Vocabulary
 * Homer's Odyssey storyboard

Goals
 * Read for comprehension
 * Increase vocabulary
 * Reflect