Block Day 9/10-11 ~ Myths Retold and Quizzed!

Warm-up: More about advertising....





And just for kicks, how about this one?


Story Time!!!

PSAT Books will be given today! These books are simply for your personal preparation for the PSAT. Please do keep them because your math classes will need them as well. Bring them to school everyday until your math teachers say you can stop. Feel free to browse through after the quiz.

Quiz Time!!!

HW: Please complete Journal 6 and buy Blood Brothers.

Journal 6
Sometime this weekend, please interview a parent, grandparent or any adult close to you.
Ask them...

• Can you explain to me what is happening with the refugee crisis in the Middle East right now?
• Why do you think there constantly seems to be fighting, wars and conflict in that area of our world? 
• What is ISIS? 
• How much responsibility do you think the U.S. must carry to help that part of the world?

Wednesday 9/9/15 ~ How is mythology used in advertising?

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Warm-up: What Greco-roman allusion is in each ad?















Group work: Myth Retold
*Due next time!!!!

HW: Be ready to present your myths and take a quiz next time!

Quiz will include:

• grammar 
• prefixes
• Mythology in general

Tuesday 9/8/15 ~ How is mythology used in advertising?

Warm-up: Journal #5:

ALLUSION: A casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature, often without explicit identification. Allusions can originate in mythology, biblical references, historical events, legends, geography, or earlier literary works. Authors often use allusion to establish a tone, create an implied association.

 Why would each of these companies have used the icon/name from mythology? Why is it beneficial to have allusions to Greek/Roman mythology in a company's branding or name?

Activity: Myths Retold

• You will be assigned a group and a myth. It is your job to teach the myth, but there is one trick... It must be set in today's world. Use the characters, moral and plot from your myth, but with a modern day flare.
• What is required?
• Due block day! Presentations must be no more than 8 minutes.
• You and your group members must engage the audience in a way that they will definitely remember the myth you've taught them. 
• Think, how can I make my story entertaining and visual enough to get people to pay attention and remember what I've taught? 
• Grade: 20 pts. based on creativity (5), clarity (5), detail (5), and individual effort (5). 

~Continue working with your group members to creatively retell these old myths. Final product should be no more than 8 minutes. Due block day!

• Prometheus and Pandora
• King Midas
• Cupid and Psyche 
• Hades and Persephone 
• Pyramus and Thisbe 

Block Day, 9/3 and 9/4 ~ Know thy posters, cont.

FYI: Roots, Grammar and Mythology Quiz on Wednesday, 9/9

• KNOW dominus-idem ~ root, definition, example words
• KNOW fragments ~ how to identify a fragment and how to re-write a fragment so that it is a complete sentence.
• KNOW Greek mythology ~ study your chart 
• KNOW where the main twelve Greek gods live

GRAMMAR

• Fragment Practice

MYTHOLOGY

• Finish your journey through the posters and record your mythology knowledge on your chart we started when we were together last.

Act I Scene I

• You will be assigned a group and a myth. It is your job to act out your assigned myth. Here's the twist.... It must be set in today's world. Use the characters, moral and plot from your myth, but with a modern day flare.
• What is required?
• CREATIVITY
• Summary of your myth ~ choose someone in your group to give a background summary on the original myth.
• A script ~ each member must have a copy of the script.
• Props - as many as you can muster. The props and the actor preparedness is what will make your play memorable.

Myths

• Prometheus and Pandora
• King Midas
• Cupid and Psyche 
• Hades and Persephone 
• Pyramus and Thisbe 

Welcome to our Open House!

Thanks for coming!

This is our class blog where you can find the day's agenda, current assignments and curriculum links. Check out our course plan here.

Instructors:
Allison Bridgette                 &    Amber West
allisonbridgette@mvcs.org         amberwest@mvcs.org

Please call or email me if you have any thoughts or questions!

Wednesday 9/2/15 ~ Know thy posters!

Prefixes
    * hetero - mixed, unlike
    * homo - same, alike
    * idem - the same

Grammar

Fragment Tips #2
Fragment Practice


Mythology

• Use this chart to take notes on the Mythology posters.

Tuesday, 9/1 ~ Last Day for Posters

Posters are due Wednesday at the beginning of the period. So, if you do not complete your work during the period today, take it home to add the finishing touches.

It's Grammar Tuesday!
Today we will be discussing what makes a sentence a sentence.

EQ:
What are the three important elements that make a sentence a sentence?


If one of the three are missing then you have a fragment sentence.

Grammar Bytes - Sentence Fragments

Fragment Practice

Finish up posters.