10th Grade: H.W.#32, Due Monday, 10/31

1. Read Book 1 of The Odyssey. How do we read this work–as our Aim on Friday asked? As cultural anthropologists interested in ancient cultures; as sociologists interested in how societies work (i.e. what beliefs and values guide them); as psychologists interested in how the human mind works and how it frames mundane, everyday struggles and hardships in the transcendent, the world of the gods; as literary critics interested in how a work of fiction is put together and what language it used; and as 10th graders trying to get the work done as quickly as possible, pretending we care. Okay, strike the last one from the list. It will take a bit of time to get used to this kind of verse style.
2. Go over the vocabulary words first before you read the assigned book for today in order to be familiar with these words when you encounter them in the text. Begin memorizing them. https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/1357835
3. Listen to Book 1 as you are reading it (or just listen after a while if you can concentrate on it better this way). You’ll learn how to pronounce a number of names you’d otherwise have trouble pronouncing (though she mispronounces Orestes…). In the back of your book is a list of character names with pronunciations.