Concluding your paper

In the same way that an introduction is an upside down triangle, your conclusion is a right side up triangle: It begins by restating your thesis and opens the concept up to other ways the reader can connect with it. Follow these steps:

1. Restate the thesis in a NEW way--do not repeat you true thesis statement. In one or a tw osentences, reword it. (1-2 sentences)

2. Then begin to connect the thesis to the reader--would the reader of your paper identify with Odysseus? Would the reader learn a lesson from the Odyssey? (1-3 sentences)

3. End with a thought provoking statement, or a call to action on behalf of the opinion proved. (should everyone read the Odyssey? Can you make your reader think about whether or not the Odyssey is an important piece of literature?

Odyssey Crossword Hints...

Crossword Hints:

• Sometimes Helios is AKA “Hyperion”
• For almost every answer, use the spelling in the textbook.
• However, Tiresias is sometimes spelled as “Teiresias”
• Also, Lastrygonians can be spelled “Laestrygonians”
• Finally, when he visited the Underworld, Odysseus saw one of his old crew members, named Elpinor.

Quote Integration

When you combine your writing with a line from the text, you have to include the following:

• A transition phrase, to let the reader know you're going to give an example or proof.
• The speaker of the quote, or
• The situation the quote is taken from (Does the reader need to know where the speaker is? What is happening?)
• Quotation marks around the words taken directly from the text.
• The page number, in parenthesis, after the quote and before the period.

Examples:

For Example, on Aeaea, Odysseus tells Circe, "I cannot eat without my men" (985). This shows his loyalty to his men and eventually, she does free them.

Odysseus learns to be wise throughout his journey. Athena tells the reader, "When Odysseus turned down Kalypso's gift of immortality, I knew tha this guile had matured into wisdom" (56).

Odysseus shows pride when he reveals his name to the Cyclops. He yells, "If ever mortal man inquire how you were put to shame and blinded, tell him Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye" (911).

Timeline Summary

Here is a brief overview of our timeline for the Odyssey--remember, this is the order of events, not the order it is related to us in the text.

• Leaves Troy
• Cicones
• Lotus Eaters
• Cyclops Island
• Aeolus/Almost Home to Ithaca
• Aeolus Again
• Circe
• Underworld/Tiresias
• Circe
• Lastrygones
• Syclla
• Charybds
• Helios
• Calypso's island, Ogygia

OMAM review!

Plot summary (Chapter 1) Complete the summary by filling in the blanks.
mouse town California Lennie throw hide supper George ranch Oklahoma beans pocket own Soledad soup rat live Salinas

Two men called George and __________ make their way down to a clearing beside the __________ River near the town of __________ in __________. They are heading to a nearby __________ to find work. Lennie has a dead __________, which he likes to stroke, in his __________, but George makes him __________ it away. They warm some __________ on a fire for __________ and Lennie asks __________ to tell him about the house and land they are going to__________ one day.

Plot summary (Chapter Two) Complete the summary by filling in the blanks.
boss rooms beds arrive boss’s puppies meet Slim questions girlfriend Curley dog wife swamper puppy stable buck fight ranch

George and Lennie __________ at the __________ where an old __________ shows them their __________. They meet the __________, who __________George about Lennie. The swamper comes back with his __________. They meet the __________ son, whose name is __________. They also __________ a man called __________, whose dog has just had some __________. Curley's new __________ comes in, looking for her husband.


Plot summary (Chapter Three) Complete the summary by filling in the blanks.
George Curley Weed Slim Carlson Suspicious doctor tend cuddling pool Eventually Soledad shoot grin arguing alone dream Carlson crushes Crooks women why follow friendship

George and __________ sit in the bunk house. George tells Slim about his __________ with Lennie and explains __________ they had to leave __________. Lennie arrives, __________ the puppy Slim has given him. __________ makes him take it back to the barn.
Candy and __________ come in. __________ tells Candy he ought to shoot his old dog. __________ Candy agrees. Carlson takes the dog away. __________ and Slim go to __________ an injured mule.
The rest of the men start talking about __________. Then Curley appears, looking for his wife. __________ of Slim, he rushes out to the barn. Some of the others __________, leaving George and Lennie __________ with Candy. George and Lennie talk about their __________ of the farm, and Candy offers to __________ his savings if they let him join them.
The other men return. _________ and Slim are __________. Curley turns on Lennie, who __________ his hand. Slim tells Carlson to get Curley to a __________. Curley agrees to say he caught his hand in a machine.

Plot summary (Chapter Four) Complete the summary by filling in the blanks.
never threatens friendship Crooks loneliness alone join work taunts insults farm nastily buck rabbits other Candy repeatedly backs defeated sceptical exchange evening talk Lennie

__________ is alone in his room when __________ wanders in. Most of the other men, including George, have gone into Soledad for the __________. Envious of George and Lennie's __________, Crooks __________ Lennie with the suggestion that George may __________ come back. Lennie is frightened and angry. Crooks __________ down and speaks of his own isolation and __________.
Candy arrives, and the men discuss George, Lennie and Candy's plans for the __________. At first Crooks is __________, but at last he asks if he can come and __________ for them in __________ for his bed and board. Then Curley's wife comes in. Her husband has gone into town, leaving her __________ with nobody to __________ to. Crooks and __________ __________ ask her to leave. She __________ all three men and _________ Crooks before departing.
The __________ men come back from town. Crooks, __________ and demoralized, tells Candy to forget about his request to __________ them on the farm.

Plot summary (Chapter Five) Complete the summary by filling in the blanks.
struggles flirts invites accidentally breaking pistol Curley George frightened watch week George arrest day punches deputy sheriff panics rifle Candy kill dream Lennie confides

Lennie is in the barn, stroking the dead body of his puppy, which he has __________ killed. Curley's wife comes in. She __________ in him about her unhappy marriage and her __________of being an actress. She __________ him to stroke her hair, but when he becomes too heavy-handed she tells him to stop.
Lennie is __________. He holds on to Curley's wife. She screams and __________, and Lennie __________. He puts his hand over her mouth and nose and shakes her, __________ her neck. Then he realizes what he has done. Remembering George's instructions earlier in the __________, he runs off to hide in the brush by the river.
__________ comes into the barn and discovers the body. He calls _________, then the other men. They prepare to go after Lennie and __________ him. Carlson discovers that his __________ is missing, and assumes that __________ has taken it. Whit is sent into Soledad to fetch the __________ __________.
The younger men, including George, set out to find Lennie. Left alone to __________ over the body of Curley's wife, Candy lies down in the hay and covers his eyes with his arm.

Plot summary (Chapter Six) Complete the summary by filling in the blanks.
Clara Carlson visions hide burden together death comforts Aunt Curley rabbit rifle sees kill crass pistol shoots scolds Slim leave farm river hears George

The final section of the novel opens with a description of the river bank where Lennie comes to __________ and wait for __________.
Lennie drinks from the _________, then sits down with his knees drawn up to his chest. As he sits there he has two __________ – first of his __________ __________, who __________ him for being a __________ to George, then of an enormous __________, who tells him that this time George is going to __________ him.
Then George arrives. He __________ Lennie and tells him one last time about the __________ they dream of owning __________. Then he __________ the other men approaching. He slips Carlson's __________ out of his pocket and __________ Lennie in the back of the head.
The other men run into the clearing. __________ gloats over Lennie's dead body, and __________ is __________ and insensitive. Only _________ understands what Lennie's __________ has cost George.

Students:

Your assignment today is to read an online source, take notes, and revise your answer to the question "Why have American's sought to remember the Great Depression?"

Start by going to this website:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/depwar.html

• Choose ONE topic (Right side of the page) to read carefully.


• In MS Word, take notes using a chart like this one to the right


• Print and turn in the chart by the end of the period.

For HW and Due Monday:

Revise and type your asnwer to the question above, using all the new information you have.

We're starting a Novel!

Last Friday, the 9th graders took a test on the 4 short stories we've read in class. Now, we're moving on to Of Mice and Men, a short novel by John Steinbeck.

Tonight, students are to read and annotate chapter 1, pgs 1-15. They were to have 12 annotations total.

For the next 3 weeks, you should see this novel coming home with your student!