reviewed vocabulary words. We will have a quiz tomorrow over the following ten words: adversity, desolate, exile, forlorn, guile, immortal, indifferent, pine, solitude, versatile.
We also completed the sheet on the background of the Odyssey, which I have copied below for your convenience.
Warm-up – Background on the Odyssey
Please complete the sheet while listening to the story. Ask me to repeat or write on the board any words that are confusing to you.
The Iliad and the Odyssey are epic poems credited to the blind Greek poet _______ and composed around the dates ______________. The Iliad and the Odyssey describe, inter alia,[1] the _______ War.
According to legend, the __________ War began after ______, a Trojan prince, kidnapped ________from her husband, Menelaus, the king of ______. Menelaus recruited men from all over Greece Troy
Odysseus brought the ______ War to an end by a clever scheme. First, Odysseus ordered a giant wooden _____ to be built and left at the gates of __________. When the _______ saw the giant _____, with no _____, their enemies, in sight, they thought that the _____ had surrendered and left a peace offering. The _____ brought the giant _____ into their city and quickly discovered that the giant ________ housed __________ soldiers who infiltrated, attacked, and vanquished the city.[2]
The Odyssey describes Odysseus’ adventures as he returns from ______ to his home, ________. Odysseus leaves _______ with a fleet of ____ ships and _____ men. This time, however, his opponents are not soldiers. Indeed, various __________ try to devour him and enchanting _________ try to keep him from returning to his wife, ____________.
In addition to the “human” troubles, the Odyssey contains mythic elements. In other words, Homer also describes in the Odyssey conflicts among the gods and goddesses on _________. In Homer’s time, most Greeks believed that the gods and goddesses behaved in _____ ways; in fact, it was not surprising to learn of a god arguing about petty matters or acting in a jealous manner. For example, _________, the goddess of war and wisdom, sided with Greeks in the ____ War, while __________, the goddess of love, sided with _____and his fellow _______.[3]
As Odysseus is returning home from _______, ________, the goddess of war and wisdom, is on his side, while the gods who sided with ______ during the war do not support him. Odysseus also angers other gods as he attempts to return home.
[1] “Inter alia” means “among other things.”
[2] Odysseus’ scheme is clever and cunning. In other words, this scheme reflects Odysseus’ ______ (vocabulary word).
[3] Why is it significant that Aphrodite, goddess of ______, sided with the Trojans? What did Paris
Juniors ...
wrote their essays on Gulliver's Travels.
Tomorrow you will have 15 minutes to finish your essay, and you will submit your GT annotations.
Also, you need to have read and annotated the "failure" articles by the beginning of class tomorrow. If you have misplaced your articles, links for said articles is copied below:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44278117/ns/business-us_business/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/what-if-the-secret-to-success-is-failure.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Have a great day - sleep!
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