Lesson Fourteen: The Voyage Home

1. Focus and Review

• Journal Time based on yesterday's question of the day.
• Discussion
  

2. Objectives

• Standard Course of Study Goal English I:

• 1.01 Narrate personal experiences that offer an audience:
• The Learner will write so that scenes and incidents are located effectively in time and place, and vivid impression of settings and a sense of engagement in the events that are occurring can be seen in the writing. (short story)
  

• 1.02 Respond reflectively (individually and in groups) to a variety of expressive texts            (e.g., memoirs, vignettes, narratives, diaries, monologues, personal responses) in a way            that offers an audience:
• The learner will show a personal reaction to the text with a sense of how that comes from careful consideration of the text. (Journals)
• The learner will show an awareness of how personal and cultural influences affect the response. (Literary devices and Important elements lecture and discussion)

• 5.01 Read and analyze various literary works by:
• producing creative responses that follow the conventions of a specific genre and using appropriate literary devices for that genre. (Literary Devices and important elements lecture and discussion.

• 5.02  Demonstrating increasing comprehension and ability to respond personally to texts by selecting and exploring a wide range of genres in this case the epic poem. (reading)
  

• 2.02 Explain commonly used terms and concepts that:
• The student will be able to clearly state the subject to be defined and be able to classify terms and identify distinguishing characteristics in an organized manner with efficient details. (Imagery)
  

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

• 5.02  Produce media in various formats such as multimedia.  (Three students can work on computer web project while class participates in lesson.)

• 5.06  Apply fair use copyright guidelines (Copyright Law, P.L. 94-553) in all projects.

• This lesson is an inference lesson because students are exploring the use of images and then taking that understanding and using it to create their own work.

• Materials needed are student Journals, Textbook Elements of Literature, Overhead, overhead pens, Clean Overhead Sheets, overhead with overhead pictures, student notebooks, white paper, colored pencils, markers, and classroom computer with sign up sheet.

3. Teacher Input

• Notes from the teacher, update the students on what we should have so far in our notes on the epic.  It is also a way for the teacher to bring up the important literary terms and make connections it is helpful to have something visual of the epic to go along with notes.  In this way students have the information needed in note form for test time.  This is a good discussion time and can be used to evaluate student knowledge.
  

4. Guided Practice

• Read 936-940 The test of the Great Bow, and an ancient gesture.
• As a group or individually explore how imagery is used in this section of the Odyssey.
  

5. Independent Practice

• Assignment:  Have students write a short story using imagery.
  

6. Closure

• Go over objectives of the day. 
• Today we have practiced journaling and discussion of question posed in class.
  
• Today we read and worked on understanding, The Odyssey by Homer.
• Today we will show mastery of images as we explore imagery in the epic.
• Today we gained skills in writing as we prepared our short story with images.
• Today we used differentiated learning by having some students work independently on their web sites.

• Informal Question and Answer time with Students

• Question of the Day and your journal question for tomorrow is:
• Inference:  Inference-  Do you feel that Odysseus reaction is justified in the way he treats the suitors?  Why or Why not?
  
  

Bibliography:   I am using this textbook in my unit plan.  Some ideas used in my lesson plans sprung from notes in the teachers edition.