Monthly Archive: September 2016
The Odyssey – A Student Guide
Read The Odyssey, books 1 – 24, and participate in class discussions. Watch “Greek Myths, True Stories,” Part I and Part II, by Robin Lane Fox, on Curiosity Stream (login required). You can also...
The Odyssey – post six commonly used formulaic phrases
Find and post six formulaic phrases – stock epithets used multiple times in the Odyssey. Include the definition following. Credit/no credit.
The Odyssey – Painting with Words
Post an excerpt from “The Odyssey” that strikes you as particularly beautiful. Extra credit!
The Odyssey – Find Evidence Assignment
Find evidence that the desire for personal glory (kudos) is the principal drive of men in the ancient Greek culture. Worth – 25 points.
Painting with Words, Homer (from the Odyssey)
Thus we sailed up the straits, groaning in terror, for on the one side we had Scylla, while on the other the mysterious Charybdis sucked down the salt sea water in her dreadful way....
Painting with Words, Chaucer (from Canterbury Tales, general prologue)
When April with his sweet showers has pierced the dryness of March to the root, and bathed every vein in such moisture as has power to bring forth the flower…..
Drinking Alone beneath the Moon, Canto I
Among the blossoms, a single jar of wine. No one else here, I ladle it out myself. Raising my cup, I toast the bright moon, and facing my shadow makes friends three, ...
Blog Assignment – The Pillow Book
In the style of Sei Shonagon, post the following four posts to schoollesstravelled…. Hateful Things Embarrassing Things Pleasing Things Remember that Sei Shonagon was a “blogger” who blogged about court life in imperial Japan...
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