Homework over Thanksgiving

Finish Perseus columns (if necessary).

Finish any unit 2 homework, including Jason antithesis letter (if necessary)

Finish "extra gold" Golden Mean story, as explained below:

Write a one page parable (educational story) showing the virtues of following the “Golden Mean.” For the Greeks, the Golden Mean meant no excesses and that everything must be done in moderation. You will want to have three characters that do an activity in different extremes in your story. The characters who do too much or too little of this activity will suffer, and those that do the activity in moderation will have a fantastic life. The activity and characters can be modern, but must be school appropriate. Your final product will probably be 3/4 to 1 page in length.

Jason Concern Letter Outline

The full concern letter assignment is available here. Remember, we'll be writing it in class on Monday, so the letter itself is not homework.

You should complete an outline of your letter over the weekend where you list the specific evidence you'll be using as support for your paper. I'll list the entire paper's structure, but the part in BOLD is what you need to specify on your outline. Please note that the outline does not include required elements like topic and summary sentences and transitions.

Introduction:

-Explain who you are and experience of watching movie
- List your antithesis statement

Antithesis Paragraph (Good things about movie that are not gender role issues)

- First good thing about movie
- explain why it's good

- Second good thing about movie
-explain why it's good

- Third good thing about movie
-explain why it's good

Thesis Paragraph (Concerns about Gender roles in the movie)

- First summary from book
- How it happened in the movie
- explain concern about gender role stereotype

- Second summary from book
- How it happened in the movie
- explain concern about gender role stereotype

- Third summary from book
- How it happened in the movie
- explain concern about gender role stereotype

Concluding paragraph:

-Restate main ideas
- propose a solution
- Thanks yous

Jason Interactive Reading Questions

Jason Interactive Reading

Directions: Read the story of the “Quest of the Golden Fleece” stopping to write responses to the following questions as you are reading. Page numbers are provided for the big book, so it might be easiest to make up the assignment using on of those.

159- Title: What associations do you have with the words
• Fleece
• Golden
• Quest

160- The line “sailors…had to face what dangers” is an example of what literary device?

160- Pause after “was afraid of her two children, especially the boy” Why does Nephele fear for Phrixus?

160- What dilemma does the king face?

161- The Hellespont gets its name from this story. What other stories provide examples of geographical names?

161- Stop at the break on page 161. What has been the purpose of the story so far?

161- Stop after “In due time one such man came to the land.” Who do you predict this man will be?

162- What does Jason’s physical description emphasize?

162- What do we find out about Jason’s character/personality?

163- What is the importance of Hercules leaving? How would the story have been different if Hercules stayed around?

164-Summarize the encounter with the harpies.

167- Summarize the encounter with the clashing rocks.

168- Predict: How will the king’s daughter falling in love with Jason help him?

169- What does abashed likely mean in “amazed and abashed, she stole back to her chamber”? (Use context and/or word components)

170- What literary device is used in the paragraph starting with “returned to the ship” that is when we know something that Jason doesn’t.

171- What literary devices do we see in the sentences beginning with “they stood face to face?...”