Starting the Odyssey

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

Nuance Academy: Participle clause

After today I should be able to: write a sentence with an participle clause and annotate a text.

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

Agenda:

1. Add summary to notes. I will come around and check your lecture notes.
2. What do you wish you would have said during yesterday's discussion?
3. Work on Odyssey Hyperdoc.
4. Begin reading The Odyssey.
5. Write 10 sentences that begin with a present participle phrase that tells what was happening WHILE something else occurred.
1. Start with a loose sentence.
1. Mr. White carefully planned the stages of his essay, and then he rewrote it.
2. Rewrite it beginning with a participle phrase.
1. Carefully planning his essay, Mr. White reflected on the techniques he had developed during his career.
2. Laughing hysterically at the comedian's joke, Amy spit out her soda through her nose.
3. Bouncing excitedly in his seat, Ryan couldn't wait for the rollercoaster ride to start.

Odyssey reading schedule:

• Read the first section about the cyclops and annotate by Monday, 8/27
• Read the second section about the land of the dead before Friday, 8/30
• Class discussion Friday, 8/30

Homework:

1. Ten participle clauses
2. Vocabulary BBoW C-D