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Greek Mythology: The Iliad, Day 3

May 6, 2020 / / No comments

Goals for the Week:

  1. Understand the mythology of the Trojan War.
  2. Understand the plot and characters of Homer’s Iliad.
  3. Complete the Iliad Character Research Prompt.

Today’s Checklist:

  1. Understand Hector’s death in The Iliad
  2. Consider various interpretations of Hector’s death scene in various media.
  3. Prepare for tomorrow’s Zoom meeting!

Your assignment for this week!

This week you will:

Today’s Lesson!

Standard:

  • ELAGSE9-10RL7 Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums (e.g., Auden’s poem “Musée de Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus), including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment.

Learning Target: 

I can consider various interpretations Hector’s death scene from The Iliad so that I can analyze the importance of his death and why some versions change specific details.

Activator: 

Take a look at this painting! Use the OPTIC chart below the painting to analyze what’s going on here. You can click on the picture to open it up full size.

Achilles Slays Hector by Peter Paul Rubens

Fill in this chart (recreate it on your own paper) with your observations:

Overview: What do you see in this picture? What is your overall impression?
Parts: What different parts of the picture do you see? Consider characters, foreground, background, frame, etc.
Title: What is the title of this painting? How does the title relate to what is going on in the painting?
Interrelationships: How do the parts and title relate to the overall picture? Why are some things in the background? Why is there an owl flying around?
Conclusions: What conclusions can you draw from this painting?

Work Session: 

First, let’s read the full text of Hector’s death scene from The Iliad. This is about 14 pages long (but some of the pages have big pictures, don’t panic!) so I’ll draw your attention to an important quote:

Don’t talk to me of pacts.
There are no binding oaths between men and lions –
Wolves and lambs can enjoy no meeting of the minds –
They are all bent on hating each other to the death.
So with you and me. No love between us. No truce
Till one or the other falls and gluts with blood
Ares who hacks at men behind his rawhide shield.

Achilles says this to Hector as they prepare to enter into one-on-one combat. Hector has asked Achilles if the winner of the fight will promise to return the loser’s body to their family, and Achilles says absolutely not. This is kind of a low thing for Achilles to say – it’s VERY taboo and inappropriate for a winner of a fight to destroy or desecrate the loser’s corpse.

Of course, Achilles does win the fight, and after it’s over, he ties Hector’s body to his chariot and drags it around on the ground, which is a real jerk move. But Achilles is still SO ANGRY over his bestie Patroclus’s death, he clearly isn’t thinking straight.

After reading the original, let’s check out the same scene from the 2004 movie, Troy:

What is different in these two versions? Why do you think the filmmakers chose to change Hector’s death scene so radically?

Closing Session:

Take a minute to consider your feelings about Hector’s death and how Achilles killed him. You could argue this is the climax of the story, so it’s a very important part.

Respond: Describe your reaction to Achilles’s treatment of Hector after Hector’s death.

Don’t forget! We have a Zoom meeting to discuss The Iliad tomorrow at 11am! Look for the link from your teacher at 10:45ish!

Looking Ahead: Tomorrow’s Checklist

  1. Participate in a Zoom meeting with your teachers and classmates.
  2. Discuss your reactions to and understanding of The Iliad
  3. Complete this week’s character research assignment and prepare for The Odyssey next week!

World Lit: Greek Hero Story!

September 12, 2019 / / No comments

Standard: 

ELAGSE9-10W3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

  1. Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing a narrator and/or characters; create a smooth progression of experiences or events.
  2. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
  3. Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole.
  4. Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.
  5. Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.

Learning Target: I can compose a research-based story about a Greek or Trojan hero.

Opening Session: Share out! Who did you decide to write about and what did you think was particularly cool about that person?

Work Session: 

In a well-organized story of about 750 words, depict a scene from the Trojan War starring your chosen character. You should not try to tell me the whole epic story of the ten year war – you can’t do that in 750 words. Instead, you should choose a single scene from the war and show your character in that scene. Your story should include dialogue, sensory language, action, and character development.

Choose one of the following:

  • Greeks:
    • Agamemnon, King of Kings
    • Ajax, Second Best Greek Soldier
    • Clytemnestra, Agamemnon’s wife
    • Diomedes, another awesome Greek soldier
    • Helen
    • Hermione, Menalaus’s and Helen’s daughter
    • Iphigenia, Agamemnon’s daughter
    • Neoptolemus, Achilles’s son
    • Nestor, oldest warlord
    • Philoctedes, slayer of Paris
  • Trojans:
    • Aeneas, Hector’s second cousin and one of the survivors of Troy
    • Andromache, Hector’s wife
    • Cassandra, Priam and Hecuba’s daughter, Hector/Paris’s sister
    • Deiphobus, Hector’s brother (the one Athena pretended to be)
    • Hecuba, Priam’s wife
    • Helen
    • Oenone, Paris’s first wife
    • Polyxena, Hector’s sister who almost married Achilles

Closing Session:

Trade laptops with a friend and read each others’ stories! Give some constructive feedback on how things could improve.

Assessment: Summative (stories will be graded)

Differentiation: Interest (choice of character)

World Lit: Iliad Test Day!

September 10, 2019 / / No comments

Standards

  • ELAGSE9-10RL1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Georgia ELA
  • ELAGSE9-10RL3 Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. Georgia ELA
  • ELAGSE9-10RL5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise. Georgia ELA
  • ELAGSE9-10RL6 Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature. Georgia ELA

Learning Target
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of The Iliad on a comprehensive unit test.

Opening Session
5 minute review! Ask any questions you need to so we can get right into our test!

Work Session
You will have the entire class period to work on your unit test. Good luck!

Closing Session
Unit feedback: I’m going to pass around some sticky notes. Please write down any feedback you have about this unit – what you liked, what you didn’t, what worked, what didn’t, and so on. You do NOT need to put your name on it. Stick them to the board on your way out!

Assessment
Summative (unit test)

Differentiation
Process (Scaffolding, accomodations as needed on test)

World Lit: Iliad Jeopardy!

September 9, 2019 / / No comments

Standards

  • ELAGSE9-10RL1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Georgia ELA
  • ELAGSE9-10RL4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone.) Georgia ELA
  • ELAGSE9-10RL6 Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature. Georgia ELA

Learning Target
Students will review for their Iliad unit test by playing a review game of Jeopardy!.

Opening Session
Divide into teams! I need groups of 4 at the tables around the room, and we’re only going to have a non-4 group if we absolutely have to!
Within your teams, you need to number off 1-4. I’ll be calling “All the 1s can buzz in!” and “All the 2s can buzz in!” so you need to pay attention to when you’re eligible to ring in and question a Jeopardy answer.

Once you’re in your teams, choose your favorite Olympian god for your team name 🙂

Work Session
It’s time for ILIAD JEOPARDY!!

We will be playing exactly like real Jeopardy!. That means if you get a question wrong or buzz in and don’t know, you will LOSE points! Fun fact, Jeopardy! gets its name because when you answer a question, you’re in *jeopardy* (danger) of losing your money. Also, you must put your response in the form of a question. In the Jeopardy round I will remind you; in the Double Jeopardy round I will not.

Jeopardy Round: https://jeopardylabs.com/play/bristow-and-mellmans-ithe-iliadi-jeopardy

Double Jeopardy: https://jeopardylabs.com/play/bristow-and-mellmans-iliad-double-jeopardy

There are Daily Doubles available, and we will do a Final Jeopardy round at the end!

Closer
FINAL JEOPARDY!! Category is:
Your Teacher!

Assessment
Formative (Review game)

Differentiation
Process (heterogeneous groupings)

World Lit: Iliad/Troy Essay, Day 2

September 6, 2019 / / No comments

Standards

  • ELAGSE9-10RL1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Georgia ELA
  • ELAGSE9-10RL3 Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. Georgia ELA
  • ELAGSE9-10RL7 Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums (e.g., Auden’s poem “Musée de Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus), including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment. Georgia ELA

Objective
Students will be able to analyze the similarities and differences in the two artistic representations of the Death of Hector we have studied as a class.

Opening Session
Grab your essay and read over what you wrote yesterday. Consider where you might change or add things, then let’s get to writing!

Work Session

Your goal today is to finish your essay in which you compare and contrast the two versions of the Trojan War 🙂

The Iliad vs. Troy

Wolfgang Peterson’s 2004 film Troy is a modern retelling of the story of the Trojan War. Homer’s Iliad is the authoritative story of the war, dating back to 700 BC. Although the movie and the book tell the same story, there are many differences between them. Your assignment is to write a 500-word (2 FULL pages) essay analyzing WHY the moviemakers changed parts of the book.

You might consider the following topics:

·       The presence or absence of the gods

·       Hector’s death

·       Patroclus and Achilles’s relationship

 ·       The portrayal of Bressius

·       Paris and Helen’s relationship

·       Menelaus’s death

Your essay should go beyond simply explaining the differences between the movie and the book. You should attempt to analyze WHY the moviemakers made specific changes to the story, considering what is emphasized or absent in each presentation.

Closing Session
Read your essay out loud to yourself and give it a final proofread, then turn it in!

Assessment
Summative (Essay)

Differentiation
Process (scaffolded essay prompt) Product (varied lengths as needed)

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