3rd / 2nd & 6th: 8/9 October

Students took their first test of the year.
"Wordle" extra credit is due from 3rd and 6th periods.
Computer lab work is due from 6th period.
Homework: "Sinbad" handout. Instructions:

“The Third Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor”
(Sinbad is spelled Sindbad in your text)

• Look up vocabulary words for “The Third Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor” (yellow packet) in your glossary. For the 4 most difficult words, complete a vocabulary activity of your choice.
• Read page 638 and the background on page 639.
• What is a frame story?
• According to your text, who is Scheherazade? Is this the same answer you found online?
• According to your text, who is Sinbad the Sailor? Is this the same answer you found online?
• Next, read the story on pages 640-643. Answer the following questions:

Identifying Facts:
1) How did Sinbad and his companions happen to land on the island?

2) What does the giant do to the captain and two other companions of Sinbad?

3) How do the sailors render the giant helpless to pursue them?

4) How do the survivors finally escape from the island?

Interpreting Meanings
5) Did you feel that Sinbad and his fellow sailors were realistic characters? Why or why not? Did their behavior ever seem unconvincing to you?

6) Some Arab scholars have dismissed The Thousand and One Nights as mere popular entertainment. They have argued that the tales are not great literature because the stories have crude and simplistic plots and no depth in characterization or theme. Do you agree with this assessment? Why or why not?

7) Which of Sinbad’s qualities enable him to survive? Which of his qualities do not meet the heroic ideal?