Tuesday, September 16th, 2014

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Day Twenty--Happy Tuesday!

September 16th, 2014

When You Come In

1. Please initial next to your name on the clipboard.
2. On the last page of your Foster article, write one well-crafted (or two) sentences stating your major take-away from this article.
3. Turn in your Professor Foster “It’s Greek to Me” to the drawer, please.
4. Pick up your shmoop notes from the front table (by the screen).

Kyle--The War of the Titans!  Woo-hoo!

1. What’s the story--briefly!
1. Zeus saves siblings from dad’s stomach.
2. Olympians and Titans battle for a long time.
2. What is the central conflict?
1. Power--Titans (Cronus and siblings) and Olympians (Zeus and others)
3. What lesson did it teach?
1. Don’t have children, so you won’t get overthrown.
4. Why does it still resonate with us today?
1. Battles always happen, because people are always at odds.

Emilee--Venus and Adonis

1. What’s the story--briefly!
1. Venus falls in love with Adonis.
2. Cupid gets Venus with an arrow, and her love for Adonis gets more intense.
3. Adonis shoots a wild boar, but the boar attacks him.
4. The boar is actually jealous Ares.
2. What is the central conflict?
1. Jealousy
2. Love/Sexual attraction
3. What lesson did it teach?
1. Don’t let jealousy overtake you.
2. Don’t be a horn-dog.
4. Why does it still resonate with us today?
1. The Great Gatsby
2. The Hunger Games

Malary--Persephone, Demeter, and Hades

1. What’s the story--briefly!
1. Cupid hits Hades with arrow--falls in love with Persephone.
2. Hades kidnaps her, and Zeus allows it.
3. Hades tricks her into eating pomegranate seeds, so she’ll have to stay in the underworld.
4. Demeter is heartbroken!
2. What is the central conflict?
1. loss of child
2. lying/deceit/trickery
3. What lesson did it teach?
1. explained why we have seasons
4. Why does it still resonate with us today?
1. still have seasons
2. still have pomegranates

Colton--Artemis and Actaeon
What’s the story--briefly! Actaeon wanders and happens to see Artemis naked. Artemis turns him into a stag. He is killed and eaten by his own dogs. What is the central conflict? privacy pride What lesson did it teach? Don’t be a peeping tom. Why does it still resonate with us today? ...hole in wall of girls dressing room

Caitlin--Echo and Narcissus

1. What’s the story--briefly!
1. Echo is a mountain nymph whose voice has been taken by Hera.
2. She falls in love with him, but she can’t tell him, because all she can do is repeat what someone says.
3. Narcissus tells her he’d rather die than sleep with her.
4. She dies in a cave, until all that remains is her voice (echo).
5. Narcissus keeps rejected women.
6. Nemesis curses him to fall in love with his reflection.
7. He sees his reflection in a pool, and ...
2. What is the central conflict?
1. hubris
2. lust/love
3. What lesson did it teach?
1. Don’t fall in love!
2. Don’t be full of yourself!
4. Why does it still resonate with us today?
1. Catfish, and a million songs, and maybe our own lives

Daryn--King Midas

1. What’s the story--briefly!
1. King Midas is rewarded for treating his guest well.
2. Dionysus grants him this--everything you touch will turn to gold.
2. What is the central conflict?
1. greed
3. What lesson did it teach?
1. Don’t be greedy!
4. Why does it still resonate with us today?
1. THe Midas Touch is a muffler place--”Trust the Midas Touch”
2. Lots of game shows are based on greed
3. ARe we every satisfied with anything?

Syd--Hercules and the Twelve Labors

1. What’s the story--briefly!
1. King Creon gives his daughter Megara to Hercules as a thank-you gift
2. Hera makes Hercules go crazy with rage, and he kills his children and wife
3. King Eurystheus give Hercules twelve chores to atone for his sins.
2. What is the central conflict?
1. labor
2. losing your temper
3. What lesson did it teach?
1. Control your temper.
2. Don’t be born.
4. Why does it still resonate with us today?
1. Adrian Peterson
2. parents who kill their children

Emily V--Hercules

1. What’s the story--briefly!
1. Zeus wanted to sleep with a woman, but she was married--so he changed himself into her husband, then slept with her--and got her pregnant with Hercules.
2. Hercules is abandoned by his mom, out of fear of Hera, but Athena rescues him.
3. Hera sends snakes to his cradle to kill him, but he kills them.
2. What is the central conflict?
1. cheating
2. step-parents
3. What lesson did it teach?
4. Why does it still resonate with us today?

Makenna--Hercules

1. What’s the story--briefly!
1. Hercules continued doing things, even after his twelve labors.
2. All of Hercules mortal parts burn away, but his immortal soul goes up to live at Olympus.
3. Marries Hebe
2. What is the central conflict?
3. What lesson did it teach?
4. Why does it still resonate with us today?

5. What’s the story--briefly!
1. Apollo says Cupid isn’t as good an archer as he is.
2. Cupid is made, and he shoots Apollo and Daphne with arrows--which makes Daphne NOT want to be with Apollo, even though Apollo desperately loves her.
3. Daphne runs from Apollo, and when he almost catches her, she turns into a tree to escape--it’s the LAUREL TREE!
6. What is the central conflict?
1. love
2. hated
3. jelousy
7. What lesson did it teach?
8. Why does it still resonate with us today?

Gerrit--Prometheus and Pandora

1. What’s the story--briefly!
1. The world beings in chaos--seeds of all things.
2. Epimetheus (hindsight) and Prometheus (foresight)
3. These two create the world.  Epimetheus creates everything but man, and Prometheus does that.
4. Prometheus gives humans fire--gets punished by Zeus with eternal liver-pecking
5. Zeus sends Pandora down as a gift for Epimetheus--but she’s actually an “affliction” with a jar of all the ills--she opens the jar, and she lets out all the bad stuff
2. What is the central conflict?
1. competition
2. jealousy
3. punishment
3. What lesson did it teach?
4. Why does it still resonate with us today?

Sarah

Cupid and Psyche

1. What’s the story--briefly!
1. Cupid and Psyche are in love.
2. Aphrodite give Psyche chores, to make her worthy of marrying Cupid/Eros.
2. What is the central conflict?
3. What lesson did it teach?
4. Why does it still resonate with us today?

Greek Myth Figures--Family Tree

• Grab your picture, and hold it in front of your chest, and find people you’re connected to.  
• Clump, people--but KNOW why you’re clumping!
• Let’s tape ‘em up!

We spent the last ten minutes on quizlet--quiz tomorrow!

Comp Strats

Day 20

Happy Tuesday!

9/16/14

When You Come In—Do these things before the tardy bell, please.

1. Initial attendance on the clipboard on the front table.
2. Pick up your book and daily reading sheet.
3. We’re having a stamina test today, so I need you to put the seats like I ask you to.  Thanks!

Vocabulary Review (Scant fifteen Minutes)

1. On quizlet, click on “Test.”
2. Uncheck all the boxes except “Written”--so it’s the only one checked.
3. Test yourself (and do your best NOT to look at the board, because you will not have a word bank on the mid-term quiz Friday.
4. If you score 90% or better, go on the study the extra credit vocab set on quizlet.
5. If you score less than 90%, focus on our regular word set.

Stamina Test

Things that DECREASE your stamina:

• looking around the room
• messing with your music
• sleeping
• anything that takes the focus off reading your book

Read and Relax

4th = 45 minutes

3rd = 40-ish

Read and Relax

1. You know what to do!  :-)
2. I am going to be recording class today, to test for reading stamina.  I will test you again in two weeks, then again the last week of the term.
3. Don’t ask to leave the room, please.

4th block partner up and took the first fifteen pics from Seberg’s slideshow.