I have given all of
you a Hilroy Exercise Book (in your portfolio). Put your name on it and give it
the title “Independent Novel Study.”
This Booklet will
be used for your independent novel study (duh).
In it, you will do “before,”
“during,” and “after” writing activities.
1.
Tap,
activate, and build on prior knowledge by asking yourself some of these questions:
§
I
already know that…
§
This
reminds me of…
§
This
relates to…
2.
Ask
Questions (at least the five Ws)
§
I
want to know…
§
I
wonder if…
§
I
want to answer these questions…(list them)
3.
Preview
the text (if you can, obviously)
§
Title
§
Illustrations/diagrams
§
Textual
clues and features present
§
Summaries
given
§
Table
of contents
§
Headings
and subheadings
§
Graphic
organizers
4.
Anticipate
Message and Author’s/Presenter’s Intent
§
I
think I will learn…
§
I
think that the author/presenter will say…
§
The
title of this text makes me think of…
§
This
text will likely present…
§
The
information about the speaker/writer/ presenter suggests…
5.
Predict
what the text will be about
§
Because
of the title, I think…
§
Because
of the picture(s)/visuals, I think…
§
Because
of the text and features, I think…
§
I
wonder if…
6.
Set
purpose
§
I
am listening to, reading, viewing this to…
§
I
want to know if…
§
I
think that I will learn…
§
I
want to answer these questions…
§
Your homework assignment for Monday, September
16, is to do the “before” reading activities for your independent novel. These
are, of course, to be completed in your booklet and then handed in at the start
of class.
Notes on Epic Poetry
Characteristics of a Modern Hero
Honour
Self-sacrifice
Upholding the law
Defending others when the law is unjust
Self-sacrifice
Upholding the law
Defending others when the law is unjust
Characteristics of anEpic (Classical) Hero
1.
Strength
o
Epic poetry comes from Ancient Greece, where
mythological and epic heroes possess greater strength than other men do.
2. Attractiveness
o
Epic
heroes are always attractive in some way. Ulysses is tall and broad of chest.
Achilles is tall with blonde hair. Epics nearly invariably contain heroes who
are handsome or even beautiful, with fair skin and hair.
3. Authority (society agrees he is powerful!)
o
Heroes
in epics typically have authority over other men, either in right or by their
mannerisms. In the second chapter of Homer's "Iliad," Ulysses tells a
man who has been talking too much, "I will take you, strip you stark
naked, and whip you out of the assembly till you go blubbering back to the
ships." He then beat the man with his scepter and the man was thus humbled
into silence.
o
Epic
heroes tend to have military
experience. They plan battles, outsmart other military men and sometimes
even outsmart kings and gods.
5. Courage
A
hero is not an epic hero without courage. Every hero in the epic genre is a man
who goes into dangerous
situations either unafraid or with resolve, despite fear.
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