EACH WEEK, WE HAVE A VOCAB AND GRAMMAR PREPARATION PACKET!
FOR THESE, PLEASE VISIT THE VOCAB AND GRAMMAR SECTIONS UNDER "DOWNLOADS!"

Thanksgiving Break - Transforming a News Article into Law & Order
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Homework - Creating Your Own Myth 4
If you did not finish this myth in class, please finish it for homework. Your task is to create a myth that places the nature from a setting (beach and mountain top) in different cultural and social contexts.
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Homework - Compare and Contrast Medusa and Alcyone and Ceyx 
Now that we have read Perseus, I want to delve deeper into the theme of transformation and characters like Medusa and Athena. First, read and analyze Medusa, a horrific myth of transformation as punishment, and Alcyone and Ceyx, the story of two lovers that go through a heartbreakingly beautiful change or transformation. After reading both myths, please write a one page compare and contrast response in three sections. Please read the below for more information. 
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Download Alcyone and Ceyx Excerpt from The Metamorphosis 

Homework - Creating Your Own Myths 3 
If you did not finish this myth in class, please finish it for homework. Your task is to create a myth that places the nature from a setting (beach and mountain top) in different cultural and social contexts.
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Homework - Creating Your Own Myths 2
Your task is to create ANOTHER myth that explains the origins of a natural phenomenon (which literally means a "happening in nature"). 
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Homework - Creating Your Own Myths 1
Your task is to create a myth that explains the origins of a natural phenomenon (which literally means a"happening in nature").
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Homework - Excerpt from The Zoo 
James Patterson's newest book, The Zoo, discusses the same themes as The Most Dangerous Game. Read these three chapters as they discuss lions who have discovered the best animals to hunt... are humans! Rarely will you read a book from the point of view of man-eating lions!
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