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MT Jan 12 – Jan 16, 2015

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Mon Jan 12

Notes: Rilke and the Myth Tradition

Read “Sonnets to Orpheus”

Answer Questions

HW: Crossword Puzzle for Orpheus and STUDY for tomorrow’s quiz
Quiz: Orpheus (Ovid and Virgil)

Tues Jan 13

Read “Origin of Japan and her People”

HW: Begin Notes on the list of terms: Izanagi, Izanami, Leech Baby, Floating Island, Advice from Sky Deities, Islands, Deities for each island, Travel to Underworld

Wed Jan 14

Finish Notes on the list of terms: Izanagi, Izanami, Leech Baby, Floating Island, Advice from Sky Deities, Islands, Deities for each island, Travel to Underworld

Close Reading Protocol

HW: Finish Close Reading

Thurs Jan 15

Discuss Close Reading for Japanese Myth

Notes: Looking at Art I

About Extra Credit Museum Paper

Fri Jan 16

Notes: Looking at Art II

MT 01/05 to 01/09/15

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PLEASE GO HERE TO DO YOUR ELF WRITE UP. I will accept write up no later than Wednesday, January 7 11:59 pm. (LINK: https://mixlatin.org/2015/01/03/elf-write-up/)

Monday, January 5

QW 01/05: Regret

NOTES 01/05: Calliope, Muses, Thrace, Mt. Parnassus, Apollo, lyre

Read “Orpheus Pt. 1”

At Home

HW 01/05: Answer Questions

Research your mini-topic for sharing tomorrow through Thursday —

Tomorrow: 1) naiads 2) Mt. Rhodope 3)Taenarus 4) Styx 5) Tartarus 6)Tantalus, 7) Ixion 8) Tityus 9) Belides

Wednesday: 10) Sisyphus 11) Furies 11) Avernus, 12) Story of Odysseus’ descent into Underworld 13) Story of Aeneas’ descent into Underworld

Thursday: 14) Story of Hercules’ descent into Underworld 15) Story of Theseus’ descent into Underworld 16) Olenos and Lethaea 17) Haemus, 18) Pisces.

Tuesday, January 6

Share Mini-Research topics 1-9 (NOTES!)

Discuss Answers for “Orpheus Pt. 1”

NOTES 01/06: Hymen, Marriage Rituals, Realms of Hades/Underworld, Katabasis

Read Ovid’s Metamorphoses Bk X “Orpheus and Eurydice”

At Home 01/06:

HW 01/06: Answer Questions

Wednesday, January 7

Share Mini-Research topics 10-13 (NOTES!)

QW 01/07: Snakes (3 other examples)

Discuss Answers for Ovid’s “Orpheus”

Read Virgil’s Georgics “Orpheus”

Compare and contrast Ovid and Virgil’s versions

At Home 01/07

HW: Finish Compare/Contrast

Thursday, January 8

Share Mini-Research topics 14-18 (NOTES!)

JIGSAW Activity: Book 10 – Orpheus’ Songs

1) lines 143-219: Ganymede; Hyacinthus

2) lines 220-242: The Propoetides

3) lines 243-297: Pygmalion and the statue

4) lines 503-559: Venus and Adonis

5) lines 708-739: Death of Adonis

At Home 01/08:

REFLECTION 01/08 (left-hand side, if possible): What do all these stories have in common? Are all these stories tragic? How so?

Friday, January 9

Crossword Puzzle Friday: Orpheus

Discuss tonight’s HW and connection to “Theseus”

At Home 01/09

View trailer for “The Hunger Games” (available on YouTube –> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoUT7q2iTbQ)