Objective:
Students will be able to:
practice writing open-ended responses; learn to annotate; and read epic poetry: Homer's Odyssey.
Class Activities
- COMPUTER - No
- Warm-up: Odyssey Handout
- Students should complete Word Power page #1-6 upon entering the classroom. (Before class begins.)
- Annotating Odyssey Handout
- Read: The Odyssey
- Remediations of TAKS Summative
Homework:
- DUE on TODAY (2.18.11) A Day: Independent Reading Packet Numbers 11 and 12.
- DUE on Wednesday (2.23.11) A Day: Independent Reading Packet Numbers 14, 15, and 16.
- SUMMATIVE: Taks Test
- SUMMATIVE: Independent Reading Packet Numbers 11-12
TEKS: 2 (C) relate the characters, setting, and theme of a literary work to the historical, social, and economic ideas of its time; 5 (A) analyze how complex plot structures (e.g. subplots) and devices (e.g. foreshadowing, flashbacks, suspense) function and advance the action in a work of fiction; (10) Reading/literary response. The student expresses and student is expected to:(A) respond to informational and aesthetic elements in texts such as discussions, journals, oral interpretations, and dramatizations; (B) use elements of text to defend his/her own responses and interpretations; and (C) compare reviews of literature, film, and performance with his/her own responses. 11) Reading/literary concepts. The student analyzesliterary elements for their contributions to meaning in literary texts. The student is expected to: (A) recognize the theme (general observation about life or human nature) within a text;(B) analyze the relevance of setting and time frame to text's meaning; (C) analyze characters and identify time and point ofview; (D) identify basic conflicts; (E) analyze the development of plot in narrative text; (F) recognize and interpret important symbols; (H) understand literary forms and terms such as author, drama, biography, autobiography, myth, tall tale, dialogue, tragedy and comedy, structure in poetry, epic, ballad, protagonist, antagonist, analogy, dialect, and comic relief asappropriate to the selections being read.
