Odysseus's adventures

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

Nuance Academy: 10 Preposition phrases

After today I should be able to: identify the lessons Odysseus can or should learn from each event

Reading: The Odyssey, pages 21-30

Agenda:

1. Start with a loose sentence. 
1. Mr. White carefully planned the stages of his essay, and then he rewrote it. 
2. Rewrite it starting with a prepositional phrase. 
1. Before writing the essay, Mr. White carefully planned it. 
3. 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.
2. Vocabulary word of the day
3. Make this chart on your desk:
1. Event
2. How they got into it
3. What trait of Odysseus gets them out
4. What does or should he learn from this event that will help him get home?
5. In real life, this event is like...
4. English Journal #2: Odysseus's adventures
1. Choose one event you charted with your partner and write about it.
5. The Big Ideas
1. Start your own Big Ideas Padlet wall. Make a column for the the ideas and their definition.
2. Make a column for the Odyssey.

Homework:

1. 10 Prepositional Phrases
2. Membean