Odysseus and the Cyclops

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

Nuance Academy: Prepositional Phrase

After today I should be able to:

Reading: finish one book by September 23rd; extra bonus if you finish two books.

Agenda:

1. Present your Greek god/dess slides
2. Start with a loose sentence. 
1. Mr. White carefully planned the stages of his essay, and then he rewrote it. 
3. Rewrite it starting with a prepositional phrase. 
1. Before writing the essay, Mr. White carefully planned it. 
4. Here are some more examples. You can use these ideas, but change them to make your own sentence. 
1. After breakfast, I headed out the door to catch my train.
2. Inside the house, the children were playing a noisy game of tag. 
3. Above the clouds, the sky was a beautiful blue. 
4. Behind the shed, the dog buried its bone. 
5. Before school started, I finished all my homework. 
6. Across the field, the cows were grazing quietly. 
7. Below the surface, fish swam around the coral reef. 
8. Among the trees, birds were singing happily. 
9. Throughout the night, the crickets chirped loudly. 
10. Around the block, kids rode their bikes fast.
5. Start your new vocabulary list. It is linked in the homework section or on Google Classroom.
6. Start at 9.321 and read until 9.488
1. Each person read ten lines out loud. When you finish a page write down the steps for Odysseus's plan to get his men out of the Cyclops's cave.
1. Odysseus and his men pray to Zeus for help.
2. Odysseus decides to kill the Cyclops but realizes that he cannot roll away the stone from the door.

Homework:

1. Odyssey vocabulary, books 8-13
2. 10 prepositional phrases