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Friday, August 26, 2011

Friday!

AP English:
*Daily Language
*Poem: "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver--> Journal
* Odyssey: Point of View/ Plot/ Conflict/ Characters
*Personal Narrative Presentations

Homework: Vocabulary: choose ten words from the Odyssey and define--due Monday

Students will continue presenting personal narratives first thing on Monday!

Class Notes:
Point of View
3rd Person Omniscient
1st Person—Books 9-12

Muse: goddess of inspiration

Invocation of the muses

Storytelling is sacred: bard

Transgression

Plot: Story

Conflict: Odysseus needs to get home

Poseidon

Suitors: cocky, annoying, bullies, arrogant

Hospitality to guests

Characters
Odysseus
Penelope
Telemachus
Poseidon
Circe
Calypso
Eumaeus
Athena
Agamemnon



Composition IV: 2nd Hour:

* Daily Language
*Poem: "Wild Geese" -- Mary Oliver --> Journal
* Choose reading books: either Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie or The Journey of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall
* Check homework-- Outline autobiography
*Begin writing/ reading
Homework: (1) autobiography due next Wednesday
(2) read pages 1-10 in book by Monday



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