Lesson Four: The Voyage Home

1. Focus and Review

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

2. Objectives

• Standard Course of Study Goal English I:
  
• 1.01  Narrate personal experience that offer an audience (student poem)
• 2.02  Explain commonly used terms and concepts that classify terms and identify distinguishing characteristics.  Organize ideas and details effectively.
• 3.02  Express an informed opinion that states clearly a personal view (journals)
• 5.01  Read and analyze Literary works by using effective reading strategies for engagement.
     
• 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 comparison lesson because we are looking at the the similarities and differences between two poems.
• Materials needed are student Journals, Textbook Elements of Literature, Overhead, Overhead pens, Clean Overhead Sheets, student notebooks, Venn Diagram overhead, paper, pencils, and a place to go outside.  Also we need the classroom computer with sign up sheet.
  

3. Guided Practice

• Read 890-898 as a group, Part One and Calypso.
  

4. Teacher Input

• Through a Venn Diagram work on comparison skills with students by comparing the similarities and differences of the epic and the poem Calypso.
  

5. Independent Practice

• Take students outside and have them write their own poem using personification.
• Differentiated learning is available because the computer will have three students working in thirty minute time slots on the computer.  This will enable the whole class to use the classroom computer as students rotate on a class list.

6. Closure

• Go over objectives of the day. 
• Today we have read and gained an understanding of the epic poem, The Odyssey by Homer.
• Today we have strengthened our comparison skills using a Venn Diagram. 
• Today we will have explored personification through writing.
• Today we have practiced differentiated learning by allowing three students to work independently on their web projects while the class does their lesson.
• Informal Question and Answer time with Students
  
• Question of the Day and your journal question for tomorrow is:
• Inference:  Would you choose home over the company of a God or Goddess?  Why or Why not?
  
  

Bibliography:   I am using this textbook in my unit plan.