Friday, August 31, 2018

Announcements and Reminders:                If you brought your composition book, put your name and period # on the front.  You are assigned a number to match your composition book to a hanging folder either in the black crate or in the drawer below it. That number will also be your computer lab/Chromebook number.   Put that number on the front of your composition book.  If you don't have one yet, make sure you bring a composition book ASAP.  And bring and hand in your disclosure and VIP form.      School Pictures will be         on September 6/7.

Targets for Today: I can decipher a code. : )  I can tell the story of one of the gods or other characters from Greek Mythology. I can take effective notes on the presentations today -- in my composition book.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. It's Greek to Me!    Please take out your notebooks Here’s the first handout of the semester.  Take a glue stick or tape and glue this to the front page of your notebook.  This is the Greek alphabet. Every now and then I will provide a message using the Greek alphabet -- but not written in Greek!.  It’ll usually be a fun fact about mythology. You can use this alphabet to decode it. Here's the first: Or according to Google Translate: Μέχρι το 1848, οι Ευρωπαίοι πίστευαν ότι οι γορίλες ήταν μυθικά θηρία. 2. Finish presentations with the PowerPoint -- You will be able to use the notes in your composition book on a test on these gods and other mythical characters. 3. Time to compare, consult, discuss to complete your notes. 4. Illustrations We’re going to invoke the muses, goddesses of art and history, and you are going draw. I want you to draw me a picture of the Greek pantheon in your notebook -- a two-page spread.  Each of the gods we’ve covered last time and today. Stick figures are totally fine, but I should be able to easily tell which god it is based on the symbols you draw around them So if I were doing Thor, hammer.  Freya, cat chariot. We’re going to spend just 10-15 min on this, so don’t give me detailed portraits.  Just stick figures are fine. Draw these pictures in your notebook,  so you can use it as a reference on the test.  Come check it off with me when you are done so I can give you points.

If You Were Absent: See above. Ask for the tape in with the Greek Alphabet. Beg a classmate to help you with the notes. Draw the gods in your composition book.

Vocabulary:

Help and Enrichment  Answer to the "Greek to Me" puzzle: Until 1848, Europeans thought gorillas were mythic beasts.

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Announcements and Reminders:          If you brought your composition book, put your name and period # on the front.  You are assigned a number to match your composition book to a hanging folder either in the black crate or in the drawer below it. That number will also be your computer lab/Chromebook number.   Put that number on the front of your composition book.  If you don't have one yet, make sure you bring a composition book ASAP.  And bring and hand in your disclosure and VIP form.

Targets for Today: I can tell the story of one of the gods or other characters from Greek Mythology. I can take effective notes on the presentations today -- in my composition book.

Today’s  Agenda: Review your chapter from the book, if needed. Begin setting up your composition books. Number the pages.  Number on both sides of the pages. Greek Gods -- the Pantheon -- PowerPoint and students share their knowledge   (from chapters read last time plus. . . ) Take notes beginning on page 3 of your composition notebook.    Writing will begin on page 3. Vocabulary notes will begin on the next-to-the-last page.

If You Were Absent: See above.

Vocabulary:

Help and Enrichment  Pantheon:  all the gods of a people or religion collectively.         "the deities of the Hindu and Shinto pantheons"            (especially in ancient Greece and Rome) a temple dedicated to all the gods.                    noun: Pantheon           a building in which the illustrious dead of a nation are buried or honored. Pantheon -- the building The Pantheon is a former Roman temple, now a church, in Rome, Italy, on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus. It was completed by the emperor Hadrian and probably dedicated about 126 AD.--  Wikipedia

Monday, August 27, 2018

Announcements and Reminders:                           If you brought your composition book, put your name and period # on the front, and place it in the black crate for B7.   If you don't have one yet, make sure you bring a composition book ASAP.

Targets for Today:

Today’s  Agenda: Hand in your disclosure signatures and VIP sheet, if you brought it.  Put your composition book in the black crate at the back after you have put your name (first and last) and your period (B7) on the front. Take a couple of minutes to make sure you are prepared to share the origin story you wrote last time. Line up by birth month and day. Share your origin story in your assigned groups. Become an expert:  Read about a Greek God. Take notes. _______________________________________ Write your answer to this question on a sticky note.  You will stick it up at the back of the classroom. If one of the gods got mad at you and turned in you into an animal (fish, fowl, mammal, insect, etc.) permanently, which animal would you want to be?

If You Were Absent: See above.

Vocabulary:

Help and Enrichment