Upcoming Vocabulary and Literary Terms due dates: 12/10 Quiz and flashcard check Literary Terms #61-80 Research Paper (greek god or goddess) due dates: 12/15 Completed outline (planning) for research paper 1/8/09 Rough Draft of research paper with in-text (parenthetical) citations in place Annotation Directions for The Odyssey: •Make a note each time that a new god or goddess appears in the story line— make sure that this is a big bold mark, one that you can easily find later. •Mark each epithet used to refer to a god or goddess the first time that it is used. •At the end of each book write a brief summary of the book—this will make it easier for you to review what has happened in each book later. •Mark Epic (also known as Homeric) Similes: an extended simile that is used typically in epic poetry to intensify the heroic stature of the subject; also called a Homeric simile "Fear fell upon Hector as he beheld him, and he dared not stay longer where he was but fled in dismay from before the gates, while Achilles darted after him at his utmost speed. As a mountain falcon, swiftest of all birds, swoops down upon some cowering dove- the dove flies before him but the falcon with a shrill scream follows close after, resolved to have her- even so did Achilles make straight for Hector with all his might, while Hector fled under the Trojan wall as fast as his limbs could take him." - The Iliad 1st annotation check: Books 1-8 due Thursday January 7th Extra Credit Opportunity—Burned Books (maximum points 25) Directions: Choose one of the books or authors mentioned in the novel Fahrenheit 451. Create a short Power Point on that work/author giving others a brief summary of what it is about and why one might want to censor the work. Please make sure that the Power Point is at least 3 slides long and that the last slide contains the source of your information (the website link if you used a website, or the title of the book and author if you used a book). When you are done, print out the presentation in handout format (click handout on the print screen to save paper) and e-mail the completed presentation to me erin.dewitt@polk-fl.net . List of authors/works to choose from: • Plato’s Republic • Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver • Henry David Thoreau’s Walden • Marcus Aurelius • Charles Darwin • Schopenhauer • Albert Einstein • Albert Schweitzer • Aristophanes • Mahatma Ghandi • Gautama Buddha • Confucius • Thomas Love Peacock • Thomas Jefferson • Abraham Lincoln • Lord Byron • Tom Paine • Machiavelli • Bertrand Russell • Dante • Edna St. Vincent • Walt Whitman • William Faulkner • Matthew (book in The Bible) • Mark (book in The Bible) • Luke (book in The Bible) • John (book in The Bible)