Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Tuesday, Feb 22, Odyssey, Land of the Dead

Objective: Read and analyze next adventure of Odysseus. Identify new characters and the affect they have on Odysseus. Read myth of persephone and relate to everyday life. View film and answer questions along with it for reinforcement.


Warm-Up

1.Use holt text to review Circe island experience. Find where Circe tells Odysseus what he has to do next and write it in your notebooks.

2. Discuss land of Dead - Hades - persephone - read and discuss myth.

2. Read together pages 675-677 and take notes regarding adventure in land of the dead.

3. View film to date and answer questions on handout.

4. Why do you think odysseus must visit land of dead? What does he learn? What do we learn from death of another (or if we think about our own death)?

HW - summerize visit to hades in notebooks

4. Can you

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