3.29.16

Peer-edit Calypso POV drafts--if you need it, you have one more day to work on this. It will be due Thursday 3/31 at the start of class. You can turn it in in person or you can submit it to your google folder.

Review--Books 1-5

WU: Character Sketch https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qojPD5xj9PxOn5_3ldv710JzHIiKLEaWJa8BmnQDT7Q/edit?usp=sharing

Share out

Summary of Book 6--when we don't read a section of the book, I'll generally summarize it for you and we'll all take notes so that later you can go back to find the key ideas.

Here's a note-taking guide for when we summarize the text as a class: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P45a4BpTmD2d_stBxhJsLgXilnx6NZXW2B4oJd7ntIc/edit?usp=sharing

We got through Book 6 in both classes: Draw your notes from this summary

Book Six: > > > > > > >
 *  Odysseus wakes up on the shores of an unknown land, battered by his experience at sea.
 *  As he gathers his bearings, we see Athena plotting to help Odysseus by speaking to Princess Nausicaa (Naw-si-kay-a—daughter of Alcinous and Arete) She disguises herself as a friend and convinces her that she needs to do laundry so that she can be dressed in her finery in case she meets a future husband soon.
 *  We learn that Odysseus has washed up on the shores of Scheria/Phaecia (Fee-ay-sha) (Ske-re-a): interchangeable names for island of Alcinous and Arete. The Phaeacians are known for sailing and weaving.
 *  Odysseus wakes up to hear Nausicaa and her handmaids washing clothes and makes a “cunning plan” to compliment her rather than scare her in order to secure aid, clothes, and find out where he is. (After all, he’s naked and looks like a wild man.)
 *  Odysseus asks for clothes and they give it to him and let him bathe. Athena lavishes a marvelous splendor upon him.
 *  Nausicaa invites him back to the palace but says to follow a ways behind so people don’t think the wrong thing. She advises him to appeal to her parents –her mother first—if he hopes to make it home someday.
 *  Odysseus prays to Athena for aid in securing mercy and love from the Phaeacians.

HW: Calypso POV write due next class.