Friday, 9/18

1. Click on "Prefixes" under "Vocabulary." Study their meanings by making flashcards, making lists, and/or practicing with sample words using the prefix properly in a sentence or phrase. Quiz on first 10 (a-ante) will be next week. Quiz on all 26 (a-dis) will be at the end of the quarter.

*Pray Psalm 14

2. Where we are headed: find a guest to host in order to hear their story, Epic poem due by 10/9. This gives you three weekends to find a time to coordinate and not cram it in at the last minute, such that you are writing at the last minute. Find someone, coordinate calendars, and plan ahead.

*Finish Odyssey Intro Notes from Leithart

3. Character Types: The Troll vs. the Fox--brute strength/rage vs. wittiness/cunning

Compare the proem of The Illiad with the proem of The Odyssey. 

What does it mean to be a hero? What are good models of heroes, and bad models of heroes?

4. Odyssey Reading & Annotation: Proem, Calypso, & King Alcinous' Court

HW: Read Book 8 (pages 294 - 298)
"Where I'm From Poem" printed rough draft due Wednesday, 9/23