Objective:

Students will be able to:

practice writing short answers; learn about archetypes;
and begin reading Homer's Odyssey.

Class Activities

• COMPUTER - Yes
• SUMMATIVE: TAKS Test: A Handful (Students will enter answers on Blackboard)
• SUMMATIVE: TELPAS Writing 2
• Begin remediations of TAKS Summative
• Archetypes (begin at Hero: Clip 4?)
• Read: The Odyssey

Homework:

1. DUE on Today (2.14.11) A Day: Indepedent Reading Packet Numbers 1 - 5 (Pages 1 and 2).
2. DUE on Wednesday (2.16.11) A Day: Independent Reading Packet Numbers 6 - 10 (Pages 3 and 4).

Work Collected in Class:

• SUMMATIVE: Taks Test
• SUMMATIVE: TELPAS WRITING 2
• SUMMATIVE: Indepedent Reading Packet Numbers 1 - 5 (Pages 1 and 2)

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 analyzes
literary 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 of
view; (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 as
appropriate to the selections being read.