Grade 12

• Teams discussed the Haudenosaunee Creation Story; response paper due on Thursday
• Myth and Psyche retest tomorrow. Study! (Scroll down to a link to the material.)
• Due to scheduling overload, journals are pushed back . Group A journals are now due 1/8. Group B 1/15.

Grade 10

• "Wreck of the Hesperus" essays need to be submitted!
• Began reading "Danny Deever" by Rudyard Kipling yesterday.
• Finished discussing it today, began a summary to be finihsed in class tomorrow

Grade 12

• Discussed the Greek creation story. (Period 4 is one class behind.)
• Response paper due Friday. period 4, Monday.
• Myth and Psyche exam tomorrow!

Grade 10

• Took vocab quiz.
• Finished discussing "The Wreck of the Hesperus."
• In class essay tomorrow.

Myth and Psyche / The Wreck of the Hesperus V

Grade 12

• Pds 1 and 7: finished "Myth and Psyche."
• Exam on Thursday! It is highly recommended to read that link! Study with classmates!
• Finish reading and annotating the Greek creation story for discussion tomorrow.
• Response paper due Friday.

Grade 10

• Continued The Wreck of the Hesperus.
• Vocab quiz tomorrow! Study!

Greek Creation Story I / The Wreck of the Hesperus IV

Grade 12

• Began the Greek creation story in periods 1 and 7 in class. Read and annotated up to the break on page 4.
• Read, noted and discussed the last section of Myth and Psyche in period 4, which will miss class tomorrow because of an assembly. This section will be done in periods 1 and 7 tomorrow.
• Important! There will be an exam on Myth and Psyche! It is important to have good notes, and to take the time to read over the link. This exam is scheduled for Thursday.

Grade 10

• Went over The Silver Kiss exam. Students who scored poorly on the essayare strongly encouraged to rewrite it. See me for help.
• Continued discussing the 2nd part of The Wreck of the Hesperus, through line 52.
  

Myth and Psyche / The Wreck of the Hesperus III

Grade 12

• Collected Chinese creation Story responses
• Continued with "Myth and Psyche," section 5: "The Hero Myth: The Dragon Fight and Redemption of the Feminine"
• Students took notes
• discussed notes in teams
• shared with the class
• Will start the Greek creation story on Monday

Grade 10

• Continued The Wreck of the Hesperus, lines 33 to 64
• Students identified unfamilar vocab
• read the stanzas
• listened to the stanzas
• translated the stanzas into prose (paragraph)

Grade 12

• Groups finished discussing The Chinese Creation Myth, and generated thesis statements which connect the story to possible cultural values.
• Groups shared and discussed thesis statements.
• Response paper due tomorrow.

Grade 10

• We started Longfellow's "The Wreck of the Hesperus" yesterday, reading and annotating stanzas 1 through 8. We also wrote a prose translation of the story so far.
• Today we reviewed those stanzas, examined them more closely in groups, and rewrote the translation with the new information.

Grade 12

• I thought I had linked the Orpheus video here, but I didn't. Here it is: Orpheus and Eurydice
• Continued with lecture/notetaking practice with the "Separation, Creation and the Birth of Consciousness"
• Continued evaluating the Chinese creation myth.
• Response paper due on Thursday.

Grade 10

• More vocabulary!

19. Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily means one thing is used to mean another, thus making a comparison, as in "a sea of troubles" or "All the world's a stage" (Shakespeare).


20. Simile: a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared using ‘like’ or ‘as’, as in “she is like a rose.”

21. Lyric poetry: a form of poetry often with rhyming schemes that express personal and emotional feelings.

22. Narrative poetry: a form of poetry that tells a story to express a particular theme.

• Began background reading for Longfellow's "The Wreck of the Hesperus."

Creation Myths / Poetry I

Grade 12

Continued practicing taking notes from lecture. Continued the second section of  "Myth and Psyche: The Evolution of Consciousness". Groups compared notes, shared with the class and discussed.

Groups began reading and annotating the Chinese creation myth.

Will continue tomorrow

Collected Orpheus response papers.

Grade 10

• Vocabulary:

16. Poetry: the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
17. Prosody: study of poetic meters and writing verse; the particular system of verse in a poem.
18. Prose: the ordinary form of spoken or written language

• Discuss. Write example sentences.
• Read and interpret the poem "Sadie".