English Activities: Trojan War Projects

Culminating Project for The Iliad and The Aeneid are due March 6, 2013

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English Journals: 3rd Nine Weeks Topics

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Unit One (Choose One)

• Write a myth comparable to the ones we have read in class.
• Compare Gilgamesh and Sundiatta as Epic Heroes.
• Identify and describe an Epic Hero of Pop Culture.

Gilgamesh Required

• How does knowing about death change the way you live?

Unit Two

• Essay Response to Prisoner p1029 #9 or Train p1015 #10

Unit Three (Complete both)

• Trojan War Topics: Using The Iliad p 171 #7,9,11,13 Choose any of these questions and answer for your required essay
•  Choose any of the Writing response questions for Plato p197, Catullus p301, Ovid p313

English Writing Journals: Trojan War

Week Five: Using The Iliad  p 171 #7,9,11,13 Choose any of these questions and answer for your required essay

Week Six: Choose any of the Writing response questions for Plato p197, Catullus p301, Ovid p313

English Weekly Activites

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Monday: Test for Unit 2 and Reading the historical backgrounds of Ancient Greek and Roman

Literature

Tuesday: Reading The Iliad  Book 1. Ans questions

Wednesday: Reading The Iliad  Book 18 and 22. Ans questions

Thursday: Reading The Iliad  Book 24. Ans questions

Friday: Vocabulary quiz and Begin reading  The Aeneid. Ans questions

Related articles

• Rhetoric and the Iliad (guardian.co.uk)
• Iliad Translation Contest ~ Stephen Mitchell as Judge (rogueclassicism.com)
• On Homer, fine-tuning ‘The Iliad’ and being the rock star of translators (macleans.ca)