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3 December 2013 English I Honors

Objective: SWBAT Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Edith Hamilton’s “The Two Great Gods of Earth” through accurate and cohesive formed responses. . 3 December 2013 English I Honors

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3 December 2013 English I Honors

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  1. Objective: SWBAT Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Edith Hamilton’s “The Two Great Gods of Earth” through accurate and cohesive formed responses. 3 December 2013 English I Honors Do Now: Determine the author’s purpose (the Ancient Greeks) for “The Two Great Gods of Earth” by Edith Hamilton from Mythology (Hamilton 53). Describe various roles Demeter and Dionysus play in natural phenomena.

  2. Objective: SWBAT Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Edith Hamilton’s “The Two Great Gods of Earth” through accurate and cohesive formed responses. Sample Response: The ancient Greeks generated the myths contained within Hamilton’s “The Two Great Gods” to form rational explanations for natural phenomena. Persephone’s kidnapping causes Demeter, the goddess of the harvest to enter a phase of mourning, and thus to neglect her earthly duties. While in the realm of Hades, Persephone is fed pomegranate, which entices her to return to the underworld for part of each year (Hamilton 57 – 63). The tale about Persephone’s disappearance and Demeter's resulting grief serves to explain the annual reoccurrence of seasons. In the myth of Dionysus, the women of Thebes seemingly enter a euphoric state as the worship the god of wine in the woods, however their drunkenness prevents them from properly identifying Pentheus, the King of Thebes. Believing him to be a beast, Pentheus’s own mother leads the women in tearing him limb from limb (Hamilton 71 – 72). The dual properties of wine are illustrated in the ability of wine to elicit both feelings of merriment and reckless debauchery. Tales a about Demeter and Dionysus serve to explain out of the ordinary natural occurrences by creating associations with the supernatural.

  3. Objective: SWBAT Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Edith Hamilton’s “The Two Great Gods of Earth” through accurate and cohesive formed responses. Agenda -Do Now Response Overview -Do Now Reconstruction HW: Summarize the 12 Events from the “Greek Story-Telling” Web Overview: http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/gods/story/sto_set.html

  4. Objective: SWBAT Identify heroic qualities as they are embodied by characters across various works and genres. Cornell Notes Event -Description of Event Summary of Events (character actions / reactions)

  5. Objective: SWBAT Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Edith Hamilton’s “The Two Great Gods of Earth” through accurate and cohesive formed responses. Closure: Predict why the Greeks chose to paint their gods and goddesses as individuals who caused mortals harm.

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