Sept 30, 2020

 Hello! Sorry I won't be there again today. Here's what you're up to:

• Tasks for today:
• Post a discussion response on Teams
• Take personal notes for short story and literary terms
• Start on Project 1
• Write a freewrite
• Discussion: If you were Orpheus, would you have looked back? Why?
• "The Great Musician: A Greek Myth" (302)
• This was for homework to read for today
• Orpheus is a famous character. We see him pop up in many references - including the concert hall "The Orpheum" downtown
• Underworld and Hades is different from Hell and the Devil (important to note that neither character is being punished for being down there)
• It's helpful to understand who these characters are:
• Charon and Styx
• Cerebus, the three headed dog
• Sisyphus and Tantalus
• Literary Terms
• Personification (see Lesson notes for definitions and examples)
• The first two paragraphs are loaded with personification
• Irony
• This is the most challenging of all literary terms, so it's okay if you're not mastering it. It becomes more important towards English 12
• Project 1
• Remember the schedule for completing this:
• Today, write your topic sentence, and gather specific quotes from three different texts.
• Tomorrow, write your rough draft.
• Friday, peer edit.
• Monday, submit your good copy.
• For the topic sentence:
• Consider the sentence I gave you: "The future will be better than the present"
• What do you want to change about it? You can disagree with the sentence, you can change the word "Future" or "present" or "better." For tomorrow, create a sentence you'd like to use.
• For the quotes:
• Try to find a quote from three different texts that would support your topic sentence
• If you can only find quotes from one or two texts, that's acceptable, but the strongest paragraphs draw from all three.
• The texts we've read so far: "The Trunk in the Attic" (171), "The Iron Barred Door" (190), "the last great american dynasty," "The Raven Steals the Light," and "The Great Musician" (302)
• Freewrite. Finish this prompt in ten minutes: A beautiful song played across the crowded room.