Day 3 Agenda

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Day 3 Agenda The Odyssey1. Bell Ringer2.
Vocabulary3. Skill Focus Characterization and
Motivation4. Read from Cyclops5.
Characterization and Motivation Practice6. Exit
Slip
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Bell Ringer 3 (A) 4/15 (B) 4/18

• Write a paragraph about a time in which you
  overcame a great obstacle or difficulty in your
  life.
• 1. What fears or problems did you have to face?
• 2. Why did you choose to face these obstacles
  despite the difficulty they caused?
• 3. Did you have an ultimate reward for your hard
  work?

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Word Work 3

• Ravage (verb) destroy violently, ruin
• Profusion (noun) large supply, abundance
• Adversary (noun) enemy, opponent
• Directions
• Use the word ravage in a sentence.
• What is a synonym of the word profusion?
• Create an illustration depicting the word
  adversary.

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Skill Review Characterization

• Characterization means the way an author
  communicates information about a character
• Two Types
• Direct TELLS US
• Doug was very lazy!
• Indirect SHOWS US
• Doug was bored with the TV show, but the remote
  control was across the room, so he just watched
  it anyway.

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Big Idea CharacterizationDirect and Indirect

• The difference between direct and indirect
  characterization is the same as the difference
  between telling and showing. One is simply the
  author telling the reader what the character is
  like. The other is where the author shows what
  the character's like.
• Examples
• Peter was very lazy, and would never shift
  himself more than was absolutely necessary.
• vs.
• Peter was bored with the TV program, but the
  remote control was unfortunately across the room,
  so he just watched it anyway. Jan would be home
  soon, and she could fetch it for him then.

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Skill Review Character Motivation

• Motivation means the drive that causes a
  character to do or say something.
• Two Types
• Intrinsic/Internal comes from within the
  character
• Sarah practiced a lot for basketball because
  she had a personal goal of getting an athletic
  scholarship to college.
• Extrinsic/External comes from outside the
  character
• Sarah made sure to do her English homework
  because she knew her parents checked the class
  web-site each week.

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Character Preview The CyclopsPage 760

• Named Polyphemus
• The son of Poseidon
• One of a group of brutish
• one-eyed giants called Cyclopes
• Cyclopes live solitary lives as shepherds,
  supposedly on an island known as Sicily (part of
  Italy today!)

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Todays Reading

• Book 9
• The Cyclops (p. 760 - 770)
• During Reading ActivityComplete the Reading
  Guide

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CyclopsVideo Clip --10 minutes
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Exit Slip

• Please identify if the following quotes show
  direct or indirect characterization for the
  specified character. Justify your response.
• Cyclops went on filling his belly / with
  manflesh and great gulps of whey (p. 763)
• We Cylopes / care not a whistle for your
  thundering Zeus / or all the gods in bliss we
  have more force by far (p. 761-762).
• Reflect back to our readings from today. Choose
  one character (Odysseus or Cyclops) and identify
  one example of direct and one example of indirect
  characterization. Your answer must differ from
  those listed above.
• 1. Describe Odysseus motivation and behavior in
  this passage.
• 2. Why does Odysseus taunt the Cyclops when
  leaving his island? Explain!