Lesson Twelve: The Voyage Home

1. Focus and Review

• Journal Time based on yesterday's question of the day.
• Discussion of journals in class.
• Go to computer Lab
  
• Use Outliner to Brainstorm in Word
   

2. Objectives

• Standard Course of Study Goal English I:

• 2.04 Form and refine a question for investigation, using a topic of personal choice, and answer that question by using non print sources and using interactive technology. (Exploration of web sites on the Odyssey)

• 3.02 Express an Informed opinion that states clearly a personal view. (Daily Journal Entry).

• Standard Course of Study Computer Competency Goal for 9th Grade students:

• 1.08  Select and use independently both within and outside of school, a variety of resources and formats in this case web based.
• 2.03  Recognize the diversity of ideas and thoughts by exploring a variety of resources in this case web based.
• 4.01  Identify information needs and formulate questions about those needs.
  
• 4.05 Gather information from the most effective resources.
  
• 5.01  Respond to reading, listening, viewing experiences orally, artistically, dramatically, through various formats (web based)
• 5.02 Produce Media in various formats.
  
• 5.06  Apply fair use copyright guidelines (Copyright Law, P.L. 94-553) in all projects.
• This lesson is an look and evoke lesson because students will be exploring web sites to gather ideas for their web site, and then they will begin the design process by using the outliner to brainstorm, complete a list of components needed for page, and through learning to edit, cut and past from the outliner to composer.  This will build on their evaluative skills because they must evaluate what is beneficial and non beneficial to their web page after they have started the construction part of their  page lay out.

• Materials needed are student journals, Computer lab 30 students, Netscape Communicator, Netscape Navigator, and Word, a hand out with web addresses, instruction sheet on how to use outliner and editing a web page,  paper, pencils, sticky notes.
  

3. Teacher Input

 
• Review copyright and fair use guidelines with students.
• Discuss any questions with  project rubric with students, and discuss questions and concerns regarding web site project.
• Basic lesson on editing, cutting, and pasting in web document and word.
   

4. Independent Practice

• Students explore multiple Odyssey web sites.  They get to choose from the list and find things that interest them and that they want to use in their web site.
• http://search.britannica.com/frm_redir.jsp?query=the+odyssey&redir=http://www.velocity.net/~jutman/homer.htm

• http://members.nbci.com/bladesmaster/myths/odyssey.html

• http://www.cc.emory.edu/CARLOS/ODYSSEY/GREECE/dailywear.html

• http://library.thinkquest.org/10805/greece.html

• http://www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/9705/seven.wonders/

5. Guided Practice

• Students are guided through all the components needed for their web page, as class experiments with ideas and finds which are most effective.
  

• Students work by themselves and in a group to construct their web site.  This is the construction phase, so students will be cutting and pasting from outliner and Netscape into their web page.
  

6. Closure

• Go over objectives of the day.
• Today we have begun the process of beginning our web site by exploring the rubric in creating our final product.
• Today we will have learned to use copyright guidelines and fair use guidelines. 
• Today we will have explored a non print source on the web.
• Today we have explored ideas about the Odyssey through the look process by exploring web sites. 
• Today we have created an outline for our web page to be filled in.
• Today we have learned how to edit and create a Netscape document.
• Today we have created a solid design for our web page with items cut and pasted into our web site.

• Informal Question and Answer time with Students

• Question of the Day and your journal question for tomorrow is:
• What is the function of Telemachus' emotions towards his father in the epic poem?