Mrs. Staab
English 135
Lesson Plans
Week of 01/04/10-01/08/10
Standards:
Apply word analysis and vocabulary skills. Recognize word structure and meaning. (1A)
Apply reading strategies to improve understanding and fluency. (1B)
Understand how literary elements and techniques are used to convey meaning. (2A)
Read and interpret a variety of literacy works. (2B)
Use grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization and structure. (3A)
Communicate ideas in writing to accomplish a variety of purposes. (3C)
ObjectivesI Can:
1) use context clues from a passage to determine word meanings
2) demonstrate effective listening skills by being attentive, focused and receptive
3) support an evaluation of the text using content from the media
4) write to communicate my ideas and understanding
Monday, January 4, 2010
Teacher In-service NO SCHOOL
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
1) Bellringer- copy daily agenda, I can statement, & vocabulary words
2) Vocabulary words: Pernicious, Posterity, Anguish, Profane, Mutiny
3) Discuss video handout and present video on The Odyssey
4) Homework: Write the definitions for vocabulary words
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
1) Bellringer- copy daily agenda, I can statement, share definition to vocabulary word
2) Continue with "The Odyssey" video and answering questions on handout
3) Homework: Find and write the synonyms and antonyms to the vocabulary words
Thursday, January 7, 2010
1) Bellringer- copy daily agenda, I can statement, share synonym/antonyms
2) Finish watching " The Odyssey" and completing handout
3) Homework: Write a short essay on "The Odyssey" using vocabulary words
Friday, January 8, 2010
1) Bellringer- copy daily agenda, I can statement, review definition of vocabulary
words
2) Collect/share random essays
3) Introduce next unit- Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, show ppt and have students
take notes.
4) Homework: assign family shields due Monday
Resources (Materials/ Texts/ Visuals/ Technology):
Computer
LCD Projector
Literature textbook
Language textbook
Handouts
Shakespeare ppt
Assessment:
Student participation
Student Interactive Notebooks
Student Essay & Video handout
The Odyssey
Film viewing guide
1. What does Odysseus say is "the proudest day of my life"?
2. To what city do Odysseus' ships sail so that the men may fight an opposing army?
3. What does Odysseus tell Penelope she must do if he has not returned before their son
has a beard on his face?
4. On the ship, what does the goddess Athena tell Odysseus he is to do?
5. Who is the "defender of Troy"; its greatest warrior?
6. Finish the words of the soothsayer: "Beware the ___________________ and their
_______________________.
7. What do Odysseus and his men build that finally allows them to enter the gates of the
opposing army?
8. How many years have they fought the war?
9. What does Poseidon say Odysseus will do as a result of Odysseus' pride and
arrogance?
10. How does Poseidon separate Odysseus' ship from the others in the fleet and prevent
Odysseus from returning home?
11. When the Cyclops asks for his name, what does Odysseus answer? Why doesn't he
give his real name?
12. How do Odysseus and his men escape the Cyclops' cave?
13. Who speaks to Odysseus at the waterfall where Odysseus collects water?
14. What does the god at the waterfall give Odysseus?
15. Why does he want to help Odysseus?
16. On the island of the goddess Circe, one of O's men is turned into a _______________.
17. How does O's mother die?
18. How long do O and his men remain on the island of Circe? How is she able to keep
them there for so long?
19. Where must O travel to gain information on how to return home?
20. Why have the noblemen come to see Penelope?
21. What was the one item that O carried into the Underworld?
22. Tiresias: "It is the __________________ itself that makes up your life."
23. What does Tiresias say the O should look for in order to find his way home?
24. What person from his past does O see in the Underworld?
25. Penelope promises the noblemen that she will choose a husband from among them
when she finishes _______________________________________________________ .
26. Describe the monster that O and his men encounter in the Straits of Scylla.
27. How many of O's men are lost traveling through the Strait of Scylla?
28. Why do Calypso's maids giggle when they see O?
29. Athena: "The gods must ________________ for man what man _________________ for
himself."
30. Where does Athena tell Telemachus to sail to in search of his father?
31. How does Penelope keep O's shroud in an unfinished state?
32. After O returns to the island of Ithaca, how does Athena change his appearance so he
won't be recognized?
33. What are the suitors' plans for Telemachus?
34. How is the woman servant able to identify O?
35. What task does Penelope tell the suitors that they must perform to win her hand in
marriage?
36. What happens to the suitors at the end of the film?
37. According to O, what was the suitors' crime?
Essay
What was the best part of the movie? Why? What was the worst part of the movie? Why?
On a separate sheet of paper, using this week's vocabulary words, write a complete essay
(with a beginning, middle and end) answering the above questions. Make sure you
underline the vocabulary words.