Anna Vachadze, period 6, 12/14/20, day b
Freshmen 2021
-> Aim: How does Homer's invocation establish tone for the beginning of the Odyssey?
-> Do Now: How do you become inspired? Where does it originate?
-> TEAM DISCUSSION
today we started class by changing team names, all students got put out into breakout rooms and collaboratively worked on creating a new team name for our groups.
after much discussion, my group decided to call ourselves the “pantheon.”
all of our groups got called on to show our class our new team names!
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-> DO NOW REVIEW
After this Ms. Peterson called on us to discuss what inspires us. Liawoei brought up a nice point of how he thinks of what will come out of his hard work is what keeps him inspired, and Ms. Peterson compared/referred to this as “backwards planning.”
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After this, we “spirit read” about the nine muses, starting with Elliot. Following this, we watched this interesting video about the muses.
Then we looked up the definition to “invocation.” Below, I provided the google definition of “invocation.”
INVOCATION(noun) - the action of invoking something or someone for assistance or as an authority.
This definition foreshadowed part of the lesson, the class discussed “Homers Invocation Lines” together. Following this, we spirit read the text while each student volunteered to read some of the text at a time.
After we finished, Ms. Peterson showed us our group discussion topic/ guiding question.
What is your opinion of Odysseus so far after hearing Homer's invocation to the muses and learning about the Trojan War?
How does Homer maintain the audience’s interest in the story, knowing that the audience is aware of the outcome from the very beginning?
What does the invocation of the Muse in the opening lines clarify about Odysseus’ culpability (responsibility for a fault or wrong; blame) during his voyage home?
All of us collaboratively discussed this question in our breakout rooms. We then came back later to discuss it with Ms. Peterson.
For the question, Aron spoke and said that Odysseus was some sort of hero figure in his mind. Kate agreed and added on by saying she thought that he was somewhat cold hearted.
For the second question, we said that Homer kept the readers audience by using literary techniques such as similes, metaphors etc. He also included an interesting plot and at times, he even used imagery to make his text more enjoyable for the reader.
For the third question, we discussed how on his way home, he didn't own up to his bad actions. Instead, Odysseus blamed everything on the gods, for which he was punished for later on.
We ended the class by reviewing what we had to do for homework. Ms. Peterson was kind enough to give us a few minutes before class ended to fill in our google form which was assigned for homework.
reflection/main points
The nine muses
Homers invocation lines
Analysis of odysseus
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