Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Announcements and Reminders for Tuesday, September 11, 2018:                             Parent Teacher Conference will be this Thursday, September 13, 3:30 to 5:30 pm.  See the red link for more details. Don't forget to bring back your Disclosure Signatures with the VIP form on the back filled out.   They were due by August 31, but you will still receive most of the points for the VIP when it is handed in.  If you have it, hand it in to your class top wire basket.   To check out books from the classroom, use our Google form.    1. Sign-in to your CANVAS account to access a link (or QR code) to the form.        If you haven't used CANVAS, you can get to it by  signing in on your school email,  clicking on the apps drop-down (in the upper right hand corner,   1. Sign-in to your CANVAS account to access a link (or QR code) to the form.  and selecting CANVAS.   (Or you can go through alpineschool.org to Canvas and log in.) 2. Select English 7 Dorsey. 3.  Open up the Announcement. 4.  Click on the link, and it will take you to the form to fill out.

Targets for Today: I understand the stories about the fourteen major gods and goddesses of Olympus. I understand the Greek Creation story.

Today’s  Agenda  for Tuesday, September 11, 2018: 1.  Individual Reading Time (or) finish up your Tinder Profile or BioPoem. 2.  It's Greek to Me!   3. Evaluate the Tinder Profiles -- Who best captured the personality of the God or Goddess? Place your Tinder Profile or BioPoem out on your desk.   Put away or take with you any objects you don't want anyone else bothering. Move all around the room, viewing the projects.   Select two that best represent the same god or goddess.  Then determine which did the best job of showing the god or goddesses' personality, what he or she is interested in.   Explain your choice and reasoning with specific evidence from your notes or from the Tinder profile. 4. And now, we are going back to the beginning. Read the Greek Creation Myth in pairs and create mural to decorate the palace of King Minos of Crete.   King Minos of Crete was a mean dude.  He once defeated the city of Athens in battle.  As tribute for his victory, he required Athens to send seven young men and seven young women to him each year.  Each year he would lock these 14 young people in the labyrinth where they would be eaten by the Minotaur, a monster that was half man half bull. King Minos desires new murals to grace his palace walls and he has commissioned you all as artists.  If you displease him, he will throw you to the minotaur. So you want to create a good mural. Receive a sheet of legal paper Fold or draw into fourths Choose four scenes from the creation myth and draw those scenes on your paper.  Stick figures are fine if clothed and colored. Options include these: Gaea and Uranos, the Titans, Cyclopes, and Hecatoncheires, Uranos loses his powers (Keep it school appropriate), those born from his blood, and Aphrodite's birth, Cronos and Rhea, what Cronos does to his children, how Zeus is saved, how Zeus overthrew Cronos, the Titanomachy (remember that name), the hecatonchires and the cyclopes forge objects of power, Olympians defeat the Titans, Olympians become rulers of the cosmos, Zeus has Prometheus and Epimetheus (Titans who had sided with the Olympians) create mortals -- animals and man, origin of sacrifice, how Prometheus angers Zeus, the first woman and how evils come into the world, Prometheus's punishment. Pronounce:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR0ao9IDFwM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=107p1cC6XkA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qvfPXjMAbI

If You Were Absent: See above. Bio Poem--Mythology.docx Tinder Evaluation (1).docx Tindr Profile (1).docx

Vocabulary:

Help and Enrichment  For the murals, Options include these: Gaea and Uranos, the Titans, Cyclopes, and Hecatoncheires, Uranos loses his powers (Keep it school appropriate), those born from his blood, and Aphrodite's birth, Cronos and Rhea, what Cronos does to his children, how Zeus is saved, how Zeus overthrew Cronos, the Titanomachy (remember that name), the hecatonchires and the cyclopes forge objects of power, Olympians defeat the Titans, Olympians become rulers of the cosmos, Zeus has Prometheus and Epimetheus (Titans who had sided with the Olympians) create mortals -- animals and man, origin of sacrifice, how Prometheus angers Zeus, the first woman and how evils come into the world, Prometheus's punsihment. It's Greek to Me:  Pluto's moon, Charon, is named for the ferryman to the underworld. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-_34eVMqf8