Week at a glance Jan 18 - 22, 2009

Curriculum focus: determines meaning of words through knowledge of Greek and Latin roots (1.3.K3a), identifies, interprets, and analyzes the use of personification (1.3.K4g), identifies, interprest, and analyzes the use of symbols (1.3.K4i), compares and contrasts character traits (1.4.K7a), identifies and describes the protagonist (2.1.K1a), identifies and describes the antagonist (2.1.K1b), and compares and contrasts works of literature that deal with similar topics and problems (2.2.K2).

This week we'll wrap up our notes over the major and minor gods of Classical (Greek and Roman) mythology. We'll then move on to our finally reading a few of the myths from Greek mythology. For that we will also finally check out books for our class. Our focus this week will be the life cycle as it occurs in Greek mythology: the creation of the world, death, and rebirth.

• Mon: No school - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
  
• Tues: Finish notes over who's who in Greek mythology. Begin readings over Stories of Creation: the Ages of Man, Prometheus, and Pandora.
  
• Wed: Finish readings over Stories of Creation - the Ages of Man, Prometheus, and Pandora. Study guide due by the end of the hour.
  
• Thurs: The Cycle of Life and Death - Demeter, Persephone, and Hades and The Flood Cycle.
  
• Fri: Greek Myths Identification Quiz. Complete The Cycle of Life and Death study guide by the end of the hour.