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.