Circle of Influences

8/14-15
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Level 3: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment

Ms. Tyler

Name:__________________________                           

Date: August 14, 2017

The Odyssey

Circle of Influence: Level 1

1)   How can a community influence a person’s life?

a)    Community has no influence on a person’s life.

b)   A positive community does not want to see it’s people succeed.

c)    A positive community wants to see it’s people succeed.

2)   How can a person’s friends influence their life?

a)    Positive friends can help you achieve your goals.

b)   Friends do not influence a person’s life.

c)    Positive friends don’t want you to achieve your goals.

3)   How can a person’s school influence their life?

a)    Good teachers and school staff can help a student make good decisions.

b)   Good teachers and school staff cannot help a student make good decisions.

c)    School cannot influence a person’s life.

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Ms. Tyler

Name:__________________________                           

Date: August 14, 2017

The Odyssey

Circle of Influence: Level 2

1)   How can our community influence our life? Explain.

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2)   How can our family and friends influence our life? Explain.

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3)   How can our school influence our life? Explain.

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Ms. Tyler

Name:__________________________                           

Date: August 14, 2017

The Odyssey

Circle of Influence: Level 3

1)   Analyze the influences of community, school, and friends. Explore the positive and negative possibilities of each influence, and the affects in which they could have on a young person working towards a goal.

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IXL

20 minutes of IXL Math Activity for all students.

 All homework must be signed by a parent.

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Alternative homework options include:

- Discussing homework-related material with a classmate, friend, or family member

- demonstrating/showing understanding of material through acting or role-playing with classmate, friend or family member

- practicing or applying homework's content into your life.

- drawing a picture to demonstrate understanding of lesson/material/content.

* Student will be expected to communicate and share experience with teacher if alternative homework option is selected. 

Ms. Tyler

Name:__________________________                           

Date: August 15, 2017

The Odyssey

Circle of Influence: Level 1

1)   How can negative influences affect our chances of achieving our goals?

a)    Negative influences hold us back from reaching our goals

b)   Negative influences try to help us reach our goals

c)    Negative influences support us to make sure we reach our goals

2)   How can positive influences effect our chances of achieving our goals?

a)    Positive influences don't want us to reach our goals  

b)   Positive influence hold us back from reaching our goals

c)    Positive influences encourage us to reach our goals

3)   Circle all of the positive influence you have in your life.

a)    Community

b)   Family

c)    Friends

d)   School

e)    City

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Ms. Tyler

Name:__________________________                           

Date: August 15, 2017

The Odyssey

Circle of Influence: Level 2

1)   How can negative influences effect our chances of achieving our goals?

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2)   How can positive influences effect our chances of achieving our goals?

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3)   What are the positive influences that will help you achieve your goals in your life. Explain why you consider them positive influences.

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Ms. Tyler

Name:__________________________                            

Date: August 15, 2017

The Odyssey

Circle of Influence: Level 3

1)   Analyze the different types of influences and determine which influence is most valuable to ensuring one achieves their goals. Explain why you feel this way.

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IXL

20 minutes of IXL Math Activity for all students.

 All homework must be signed by a parent.

Parent Signature:  __________________________              Date:__________________ 

Alternative homework options include:

- Discussing homework-related material with a classmate, friend, or family member

- demonstrating/showing understanding of material through acting or role-playing with classmate, friend or family member

- practicing or applying homework's content into your life.

- drawing a picture to demonstrate understanding of lesson/material/content.

* Student will be expected to communicate and share experience with teacher if alternative homework option is selected. 

The Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis

8/10-11
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8/10 No mortal man could scale (the cliffs) … so much as land there, not with twenty hands and feet, so sheer the cliffs are   as of polished stone… great Odysseus, your master bowman, shooting from the deck, would come short of the cave mouth with his shaft (bow and arrow); but that is the den of Scylla… she is huge and monstrous. God or man, no one could look on her in joy. Her legs  and there are twelve  are like great tentacles, unjointed, and upon her serpent necks are… six heads like nightmares of ferocity, with triple … rows of fangs and deep gullets of black death. Half her length, she sways her heads in air… hunting the sea around …for dolphins, dogfish…. And no ship’s company can claim to have passed her without loss and grief; she takes, from every ship, one man…

1.         Who can’t climb the cliff? Why?

2.         What could Odysseus not do?

3.         Why is there no joy in seeing Scylla? 

4.         How are her legs?

5.         Describe her necks.

6.         How do ships suffer when they pass Scylla’s cave?

8/11 He ceased, and I replied:  Unhappy spirit, I promise you the barrow and the burial.  So we conversed… at a distance, with my long sword between, guarding the blood, while the faint image of the lad (the boy) spoke on. Now came the soul of … my mother, daughter of Autolycus, dead now, though living still when I took ship for holy Troy. Seeing this ghost I grieved, but held her off, through pang on pang of tears, till I should know the presence of  Tiresias.

 Soon from the dark that prince of Thebes came forward bearing a golden staff; and he addressed me:  Son of Laertes and the gods of old, Odysseus, master of land ways and sea ways, why leave the blazing sun…, to see the cold dead and the joyless region? Stand clear, put up your sword; let me but taste of blood, I shall speak true.  At this I stepped aside, and … let my long sword ring home to the pommel silver, as he bent down  to the sombre blood.

1.        What was Odysseus doing when he talked to the boy?

2.        Who came to speak to him next?

3.        What did Odysseus do when he saw his mother?

4.        Who was Odysseus waiting for? What did the person he was waiting for bring?

5.        What are Odysseus’ nicknames?

6.        What id Odysseus asked?

archetypes and the lotus leaf

8/8-8/9
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8/8
1. What is an archetype?

2. What happened when the men ate the lotus fruit?

In a well-developed paragraph, answer the following question.  What is an example of a modern day lotus fruit?  (What is something that is as addicting and dangerous?) Explain your answer


8/9 In a well-developed paragraph, answer the following question.  What is an example of a modern day lotus fruit?  (What is something that is as addicting and dangerous?) Explain your answer

CIRCE

8/7

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Circe  and wolves and mountain lions lay there,.. in her soft spell, fed on her drug of evil. None would attack  oh, it was strange, I tell you…Humbly those wolves and lions with mighty paws fawned on our men  who met their yellow eyes and feared them. In the entrance way they stayed to listen there: inside her quiet house they heard the goddess Circe. Low she sang in her … voic..,.No one would speak, until Polites most faithful and likable of my officers, said: “Dear friends… here’s a young weaver singing a pretty song to set the air a-tingle on these lawns and paven courts. Goddess she is, or lady. Shall we greet her?”

1.        What did Odysseus and his men find?

2.        Who lay in Circe’s hall?

3.        What did they feed on?

4.        What was strange?

5.        How did the men feel around the wolves and lions?

6.        What did the men hear in the house?

THE WITCH CIRCE

8/4
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Task : See the images and Create a poem or song lyrics using the vocabulary words and visuals from the images.  

Vocabulary words: fawn, Circe, glade, spell

CALYPSO KEEPS ODYSSEUS A PRISONER

8/2-8/3
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8/2 CALYPSO IS A NYMPH WHO LURES PEOPLE TO HER ISLAND AND KEEPS THEM PRISONER BY TURNING THEM INTO ANIMALS WHEN THEY DRINK THE POTION.
WHAT ANIMAL WOULD YOU WANT TO BE TURNED INTO AND WHY?  HOW COULD YOU HAVE AVOIDED BEING TRICKED IN THE FIRST PLACE?

8/3 ATHENA INTERVENES WITH ZEUS TO HELP ODYSSEUS RETURN TO ITHACA.  WHAT DOES SHE SHOW IN CHANGING HER MIND?  HOW CAN A PERSON WANT ONE ACTION AND LATER THE OPPOSITE ACTION?

SYEP FINANCIAL LITERACY

7/31-8/1
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7/31 WEEKLY EXPENSES
WRITE A SUMMARY OF HOW YOU WILL SPEND YOUR SYEP MONEY.

8/1 WRITE A CHART OF YOUR INCOME FROM SYEP AND HOW YOU SPENT IT. LOOK AT THE EXAMPLE BELOW.

NAME	INCOME	EXPENSES	TOTAL

WHAT DO WE LEARN ABOUT HOW PENELOPE DEALS WITH OUTSIDERS

DEAR STUDENTS,

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WHEN THE SUITORS TAKE OVER THE ESTATE, PENELOPE DOES HER BEST TO FEND THEM OFF. WHAT DO WE LEARN ABOUT HOW WE DEAL WITH OUTSIDERS?  IN A CONFLICT SITUATION?  HOW CAN WE APPLY THIS TO OUTSIDERS AT OUR WORK SITE?

DESCRIPTION OF THE GODS IN THE ODYSSEY

7/26-27

DEAR STUDENTS,

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WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT THE GREEK GODS. BRIANA HAS A FANTASTIC BOOK THAT WE HAVE BEEN ENJOYING AND WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THE GODS AND THEIR AREAS OF POWER.  

7/26 WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE GOD?  WHAT ABOUT HIM/HER DO YOU LIKE?

7/27 PICK ANOTHER GOD AND DESCRIBE WHAT YOU LIKE ABOUT HIM/HER?

ARAMARK WORK FAIR

DEAR STUDENTS,

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WE WERE ABLE TO SEE THE ARAMARK HR STAFF HOLD A WORK FAIR FOR VARIOUS POSITIONS IN THE COMPANY.  WHAT DID YOU LEARN THAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR?
WHAT QUESTIONS DID THEY ASK?  HOW WOULD YOU ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS?

JOB HUNTING TIPS

DEAR STUDENTS,

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