Odyssey Journals

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

Nuance Academy: 10 Adjective clauses

After today I should be able to: 

Reading: The Odyssey, pages 31-41

Agenda:

1. Work on Membean for 15 minutes.
2. Work on your sentence variety homework.
1. Example 1: Odysseus explored the strange cave filled with goats, and he waited around to see who owned it.
1. Independent Clause: Odysseus explored the strange cave filled with goats.
2. Adverb Clause: As Odysseus explored the strange cave filled with goats, he waited around to see who owned it.
3. Adverb: Curiously, Odysseus explored the strange cave and waited for the owner.
4. Present Participle: Exploring the strange cave, Odysseus waited for the owner.
5. Past Participle: Filled with curiosity, Odysseus explored the cave and waited.
6. Prepositional Phrase: Inside the cave, Odysseus waited for the owner.
7. Demonstrative Adjective: That cave was explored by Odysseus, who waited for the owner.
8. Adjective Clause (Appositive): The cave, filled with goats, was explored by Odysseus, who waited for the owner.
3. English Journal #3: Odyssey journals
1. write three journals from Odysseus's perspective about his adventure with the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Cattle of the Sun. Each journal entry should be between 7-10 sentences. Here is an example about his time on Calypso's island:
1. Another dawn breaks over this gilded cage I am forced to call home. Calypso offers me a goddess's love and the gift of immortality, a paradise of endless summer. But her kindness is a chain and her affection a prison. Each day I walk the shores of Ogygia, watching the free seabirds, and I am filled with a sharp jealousy. This beautiful island is not my home; my life, the one I built with my own hands, is in Ithaca with my Penelope and our son, Telemachus.
2. At night, amidst the music and laughter in her halls, I see a loneliness in Calypso's eyes that mirrors my own. Yet while she longs for a companion, I long for the finite, precious life I left behind. My mind is a sea tossed by storms of memory, haunted by visions of my wife and son. They are the anchors that keep my soul from drifting away on this tide of despair. I am Odysseus, King of Ithaca. I have faced monsters and the wrath of gods. I will endure this beautiful, suffocating paradise and I will find my way home.

Homework:

1. Sentence Variety #2
2. Membean