Friday's Mythology Essay

Ulysses and Diomedes Stealing the Statue of Pallas Athena Created by Landi Gaspare. Fine Art. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 29 Aug 2014.
http://quest.eb.com/#/search/135_1592269/1/135_1592269/cite

* Open

* Writing Your Essay

• Head your paper, left side (blame the Communists), with the following:
• Your name
• Teacher's Name (Mrs. West; Mr. Schwager)
• Honors English ______(201, 202, 203...)
• 29 August 2014 (blame the Europeans)

• Title your paper, centered with one of these titles.  This should not be underlined or put in quotation marks:
• A Bible Story and Mythology Compared
•  (just a thought for you: comparison implies contrast: comparing to notes similarities...comparing with notes contrasts)
• Mythology is a Shadow of the Truth
• The Allusive Power of Mythology in Media and Marketing

• Write in pencil or pen (blue or black)
• Single space
• Write on only the front of each piece of paper
• You will be judged by the SAT 25 minute expectation, and we will build from there.
• You have until the end of the period to finish your essay.  
• Once the bell rings, you must put down your pen or pencil if you are still working.

* Upon finishing your essay:

• Underline your thesis.
• Staple and turn in to the teacher's tray. 
• Rejoice (blame the Christians).

HW: Get or Order Your Tolkien Book (The Hobbit)

Thursday, 8/28/14: SAT and Fragments

* Open

• Prefixes
• Federis
• Frater

* The SAT Essay and Rubric Reviewed

• Read the first example 6, 5, 4, and 3
• Note two things in each case that show it deserves the score it received.
• Consider your essay...where would you say it falls? 
• You will have all period to write on Friday as the SAT changes in 2016: https://www.collegeboard.org/delivering-opportunity/sat/redesign/compare-tests. 
• Tomorrow's Essay
• You may use notes and outlines (but not rough drafts) in your journals. 
• You will have roughly 40 minutes in class. 
• You may choose from the following prompts:
• 1. Compare and contrast a Bible story with a Greek myth. Explain why you think this comparison matters to the reader.
  
  
  2. G. K. Chesterton wrote that mythology is a "shadow of the truth."  Explain what this means and provide at least one clear illustration from Greek mythology.
  
  
  3. Explain the power of allusion to Greek mythology in media and marketing. Illustrate your connection with real examples.

* Grammar: Fragments

• Grammatical Sentences: 19-1
• Do a-d in groups
• Review

HW: Grammar 19-1, 1-5; Essay preparation

Wednesday 8/27/14

* Open

• Prayer
• Define allusion in the terms section of your binder, please.  Here are our two terms lists (see both, use either one for your definition in this case.  Generally, the first sentence is the definition you want in your notes...then anything following as you wish):
• Terms: Short List
• Terms: Infinite List

* Mythology in Advertising Reviewed

* The SAT Essay and Rubric Reviewed

• Read the first example 6, 5, 4, and 3
• Note two things in each case that show it deserves the score it received.
• Consider your essay...where would you say it falls? 
• You will have all period to write on Friday as the SAT changes in 2016: https://www.collegeboard.org/delivering-opportunity/sat/redesign/compare-tests. 

HW: Read and note two identifying traits in any two SAT essays that you have not yet read.

Thursday and Friday's Schedule (Seniors Will be Retreating)

Tuesday 8/26/14

* Open

• Prefixes (copy, define, and provide words; see the right side of the blog)
• Epi
• Ex
• Pray

* EQ: What's the point of studying Greek Mythology?

We all know that companies create identity by the power of association. They can use association by name or image. What identity did Honda intend on giving their van by giving the name, Odyssey, to this model?

Assignment: Using your knowledge of Greek mythology and some internet research, figure out why your assigned company or product is named or branded as it is. Then write a brief description to explain what is being referenced and why the company chose that name/logo (one or two paragraphs). Write your description on the card given in class. To see all images, click here. Be prepared to share your information with the class.

* SAT Practice #1

You have twenty-five minutes to write an essay on the topic assigned below.

Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.

Many persons believe that to move up the ladder of success and achievement, they must forget the past, repress it, and relinquish it. But others have just the opposite view. They see old memories as a chance to reckon with the past and integrate past and present.

Adapted from Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation

Assignment: Do memories hinder or help people in their effort to learn from the past and succeed in the present? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

HW: Complete the 25 minutes of writing (your teacher will tell you how much, if any, time remains)

Class Meetings During Advisory

HS Gym- Seniors
MS Gym- Juniors
Amphitheater- Sophomores
HS Gym- Freshmen

Monday, 8/25/14

Ruins of the Temple of Zeus, archaeological site, Euromos, near Bodrum, Anatolia, Turkey, Asia Minor. Photography. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 25 Aug 2014.
http://quest.eb.com/#/search/151_2554180/1/151_2554180/cite

* Open

• Please peruse: plagiarism. 
• Pray
• Week in review
• See course calendar

* Chesterton (see below)

* Prefixes

Please copy these into the prefix, root, and suffix division of your journal.  Please use the link above (and on the right) to find the definition and example related words.  Copy all of this into your journal each time we have new prefixes, roots, or suffixes. 

• dominus
• dynasthai
• ego

* Grammar

• Fragments
• Go to Grammatical Sentences; now click section 19 in Bedford (notice that this link is on the right side of the blog under grammar.  You may want to add this link to your homescreen). 
• Read 19 and 19 a-d. 
• Define a fragment in the grammar section of your journal. 
• Compose a fragment. 
• Convert the fragment into a sentence.

HW: (For classes that did not reach this part on block day)

Read the following, and copy the sentences in italics into your journal, verbatim.

• "For mythology is the handmaid of literature, and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness" (Bulfinch vii). 
• G. K. Chesterton notes that mythology is a shadow of the truth--so long as you remember that a shadow represents (but is not in fact) the true object.  Some people want to lump the historical truth of, say, the virgin birth of Jesus Christ into the same category that holds the mythological shadows such as the rebirth of Hera via the disgorging of Cronus.  Here is Chesterton from The Everlasting Man, Part 1, Ch. 5:
• "We may truly call these fore-shadowing; so long as we remember that fore-shadowing are shadows. And the metaphor of a shadow happens to hit very exactly the truth that is very vital here. For a shadow is a shape but not texture. These things were something like the real thing; and to say that they were like is to say that they were different. Saying something is like a dog is another way of saying it is not a dog; and it is in this sense of identity that a myth is not a man. Nobody really thought of Isis as a human being; nobody really thought of Demeter as a historical character, nobody thought of Adonis as the founder of a Church. There was no idea that any one of them had changed the world; but rather that their recurrent death and life bore the sad and beautiful burden of the changelessness of the world. Not one of them was a revolution, save in the sense of the revolution of the sun and moon. Their whole meaning is missed if we do not see that they mean the shadows that we are and the shadows that we pursue. In certain sacrificial and communal aspects they naturally suggest what sort of a god might satisfy men; but they do not profess to be satisfied. Anyone who says they do is a bad judge of poetry" (Chesterton, The Everlasting Man, ch. 5). 

Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, Greece, Europe. Photography. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 25 Aug 2014.
http://quest.eb.com/#/search/151_2560610/1/151_2560610/cite

 

Regular Bell Schedules

For Longer Works, Don't Rule Out Paper

You may remember more and remember it more accurately: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/19/readers-absorb-less-kindles-paper-study-plot-ereader-digitisation.

Block of Mythology

1662 Map of the Plains of Thessaly with Mt. Olympus in the Background

* Open

• Please peruse:
• Emergency Procedures
• The Plan if I'm Absent

* What is plagiarism? Let's consider this together.

* Avoid plagiarism by

• Doing your own work
• Quoting when you use others' information (See Bedford 55 for MLA)

* Mythology Poster Project

* Poster Presentations

HW: Read the following, and copy the sentences in italics into your journal, verbatim.

• "For mythology is the handmaid of literature, and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness" (Bulfinch vii). 
• G. K. Chesterton notes that mythology is a shadow of the truth--so long as you remember that a shadow represents (but is not in fact) the true object.  Some people want to lump the historical truth of, say, the virgin birth of Jesus Christ into the same category that holds the mythological shadows such as the rebirth of Hera via the disgorging of Cronus.  Here is Chesterton from The Everlasting Man, Part 1, Ch. 5:
• "We may truly call these fore-shadowing; so long as we remember that fore-shadowing are shadows. And the metaphor of a shadow happens to hit very exactly the truth that is very vital here. For a shadow is a shape but not texture. These things were something like the real thing; and to say that they were like is to say that they were different. Saying something is like a dog is another way of saying it is not a dog; and it is in this sense of identity that a myth is not a man. Nobody really thought of Isis as a human being; nobody really thought of Demeter as a historical character, nobody thought of Adonis as the founder of a Church. There was no idea that any one of them had changed the world; but rather that their recurrent death and life bore the sad and beautiful burden of the changelessness of the world. Not one of them was a revolution, save in the sense of the revolution of the sun and moon. Their whole meaning is missed if we do not see that they mean the shadows that we are and the shadows that we pursue. In certain sacrificial and communal aspects they naturally suggest what sort of a god might satisfy men; but they do not profess to be satisfied. Anyone who says they do is a bad judge of poetry" (Chesterton, The Everlasting Man, ch. 5).

Mount Olympus, Greece.. Photography. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 20 Aug 2014.
http://quest.eb.com/#/search/137_3122947/1/137_3122947/cite

Picture Schedule

Period 2

9:05 a.m.    English 4    Chris Reno

9:10 a.m.    English 2 Hon     Marcus Schwager

9:15 a.m.    English 2    Amber West

9:20 a.m.    English 2    Allison Bridgette

9:25 a.m.    English 3    Laramie Holtzclaw

Period 3

10:00 a.m.    English 2    Allison Bridgette

10:05 a.m.    English 3    Robert Kirkendall

10:10 a.m.    English 4    Chris Reno

10:15 a.m.    AP Engl Lit    Marcus Schwager

10:20 a.m.    English 1    Christine Sharp

10:25 a.m.    English 2    Amber West

Period 4

10:55 a.m.    English 2    Allison Bridgette

11:00 a.m.    Trans Eng    Michelle Gilleland

11:05 a.m.    AP Engl Lang    Laramie Holtzclaw

11:10 a.m.    English 1    Robert Kirkendall

11:15 a.m.    ELL        Kaitlin Krebs

11:20 a.m.    English 4    Chris Reno

11:25 a.m.    AP Engl Lit    Marcus Schwager

11:30 a.m.    English 1    Christine Sharp

11:35 a.m.    English 3    Charles Trementozzi

11:40 a.m.    English 2 Hon    Amber West (Advisory)

Period 5

1:00 p.m.    English 2    Allison Bridgette

1:05 p.m.    English 1    Michelle Gilleland

1:10 p.m.    AP Eng Lang    Laramie Holtzclaw

1:15 p.m.    English 4    Chris Reno

1:20 p.m.    AP Eng Lit    Marcus Schwager

1:25 p.m.    English 1 Hon    Christine Sharp

1:30 p.m.    English 3    Charlie Trementozzi

1:35 p.m.    English 2 Hon    Amber West

Period 6

1:50 p.m.    Trans Eng    Allison Bridgette

1:55 p.m.    English 1    Michelle Gilleland

2:00 p.m.    AP Eng Lang    Laramie Holtzclaw

2:05 p.m.    English 3    Robert Kirkendall

2:10 p.m.    AP English Lit    Marcus Schwager

2:15 p.m.    English 2 Hon    Amber West

Period 7

2:40 p.m.    Trans Eng    Allison Bridgette

2:45 p.m.    English 1    Michelle Gilleland

2:50 p.m.    AP Eng Lang    Laramie Holtzclaw

2:55 p.m.    English 4    Chris Reno

3:00 p.m.    English 1 Hon    Christine Sharp

3:05 p.m.    English 3    Charlie Trementozzi

3:10 p.m.    English 2    Amber West