One page analysis of the following selections from the Iliad
Beaven through Braun, p. 84
Kramer through Parker, p. 86
Rich through Yeager, p. 91
Read the previous page, give the setting themes, characters, drama. Make note of specific words, epithets, verbs…
1. Rewrites of compositions and vocabulary
2. Read in Ethan Frome pp, 125–140
Again, taking details from the Big Sky, write the third (3rd) paragraph on this adventure, using vivid detail.
HW for Friday (to be handed in on Monday): composition bases on the Aeneid. (a) Pretend you are a servant or slave and have witnessed the pillaging of Troy. Scan pp. 84-92. Be vivid. OR (b) Describe VIVIDLY (as a drama) any part of p. 143 to top of 144 and 145 and 150 to top of 151. This is all Dido. Page and a half.
HW for Monday: Read and prepare for Aeneid sheets (3) and (4)
HW for Friday: be ready to present you “page” on sheets (1) and (2) on the Iliad.
HW for Monday: everyone except Rebecca, Sam K., and Harper prepare final draft of Romeo and Juliet essay. Rebecca, Sam K., and Harper are to do the following essay for Monday: pp. 69–70, lines 64–113. Follow Juliet’s confusion, her momentary plunge into darkness, and then her exclamation that there is something worse than death. In the introduction speak of Juliet’s joy in the “holy act” (p. 56, line one) which then, by a chance meeting between Mer, Tyb, and Rom has been snatched away.
HW for Friday: composition–”Going to the thinking place.” Remember that “Big Ma” talks about her thinking place (and her late husband’s too) in the old forest, where she goes to “think out” what to do about a situation that is not altogether clear.
HW for Monday: read pp. 123-142 in Roll of Thunder…
