2nd: October 13

Turn in: Internet Research articles/webpages

Agenda:“The Third Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor”
1. Review and Response Worksheet
2. Quiz
3. Add to Heroic Quest chart
4. Vocabulary
5. Polyphemus. Compare/Contrast: Venn Diagram
6. Due October 17: Internet Research (from computer lab October 1) & today's active reading homework assignment.

3. Add elements of the heroic quest in Sinbad to the chart. Now that you’ve added to the chart, which squares have been the easiest to fill in? Which have the most information?

4. Vocabulary: fill-in-the-blank, graphics

• Fill-in-blank: read sentences/excerpts from recent online articles.
• Fill in the blanks with the vocabulary word that best completes each sentence.
• Highlight context clues in the article excerpts
• Graphics: view PowerPoint slides with pictures representing each vocabulary word. Identify the word. Then choose at least 1 picture for each word and write a sentence about the picture using the vocabulary word.
  

5) Polyphemus. Students read about Polyphemus, the Cyclops that Odysseus meets in The Odyssey. As they read, the were to identify similarities and differences between this story and Sinbad’s 3rd voyage. In groups, students created a Venn Diagram for these similarities and differences then shared via PowerPoint.

6) Due October 17:

• Internet Research Articles/Webpages
• Active Reading article “Kids Revel in Deep Questions Posed by Philosophy Institute” (this article can be found here: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2002/july24/philosophy-724.html)

Active Reading Instructions & Vocabulary:

Before reading: What are some stereotypes that you associate with “philosophy” or “philosophers”?

As you read, highlight and make notes on the article. Answer questions on the handout.

Vocabulary with active reading:

• institute – n. an association organized to promote art, science, or education
  For example: MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• purview – n. range of interest or activity
  What is the purview of you and your friends?
• hypocrisy – n. what is your own definition of hypocrisy?
  insincerity by pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have
• ethics – n. a system of moral principles; rules of conduct
• articulate – v. express or explain clearly and effectively
• relative – adj. existing or having its specific nature only by relation to something else; not absolute or independent