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Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

Nuance Academy: 10 loose sentences

After today I should be able to: find the agenda for this class and access Google Classroom.

Reading: The Odyssey, pages 1-10

Agenda:

1. Write 10 loose sentences. 
1. String ideas together using and or but, and sometimes who, which, when, where and while.
1. Example: Mr. White carefully planned the stages of his essay, and then he wrote it.
2. Getting started with Membean. You will be responsible for three, fifteen minute sessions a week. The sessions need to be done on three different days by Sunday evening.
3. You need to finish reading and annotating The Odyssey, pages 1-10 by Friday. We will have our first class discussion on that day.
4. Annotations
1. Contrasts and Contradictions
1. A character thinks and behaves in a way that we don't expect. 
2. An element of a setting is something we would not expect. 
1. Question: Why did...How can this help us understand or predict...? 
2. Patterns or Things that Happen Again and Again
1. A word is repeated again and again 
2. An idea is repeated again and again (but with different words, i.e. war, battle, fighting, etc.)
3. An image is repeated several times
1. Question: Why is the author continually bringing up...?

Homework:

1. Ten loose sentences
2. Membean vocabulary