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Targets for Today:
I can read a book or other materials of my choice for an extended period of time.
I can use pre-reading strategies before I begin reading informational texts. |
Today’s Agenda:
Individual Quiet Reading
Then fill out your reading log: (This is an example.)
Review and Practice Using the CRAAP Test http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html#HEARD Practice Previewing -- Previewing: Read the title. Read the first few sentences and the last few sentences. Look of bold or italicized print. Look at images, graphics, tables, charts, etc. Ms. Hilton showed how she previewed a chapter in one of her textbooks. Students previewed several articles. |
If You Were Absent:
See above for what we did in class.
Read for 20 minutes on your own, fill out the make-up reading log, get a parent signature, and turn it in when you return to class. Reading Log Make-Up Log 2018.doc |
Vocabulary:
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Help and Enrichment
The Abduction of Persephone
The most famous myth about Persephone is the story of her abduction.
Hades, the ruler of the Underworld, decided that he wanted to marry Persephone, his sister Demeter’s only daughter, so he went to his brother Zeus. Zeus was worried about making Demeter angry, but he was willing to plot with Hades.
One day, as she was gathering flowers in the Nysian meadow with her maidens, she wandered apart from the group ensnared by the sudden blooming of a glorious fragrant flower (some say it was a narcissus). As she reached to pluck it, the ground below her feet opened up and Hades, in his four-horse golden chariot, appeared before her in all his power and majesty. He snatched her and took her with him to the Underworld, to be his wife and queen.
Needless to say, Demeter wasn’t very pleased when she found out from Hecate and Helios what had happened. Hurt and distraught, she started wandering aimlessly around and was aggrieved to such an extent that she neglected all her duties. And since she was the goddess of agriculture and fertility, the earth was now barren, and people were dying of famine.
Seeing no way out of it, Zeus sent Hermes to the Underworld to fetch Persephone back to her mother. The divine messenger did do precisely that, and Demeter and Persephone were once again reunited on Olympus.
However, either on her own accord or, more probably, after being tricked by Hades, Persephone had tasted some pomegranate seeds before leaving the Underworld. This, according to the ancient laws, obliged her to remain in the Underworld.
Zeus proposed a compromise: Persephone would spend two-thirds of the year with her mother, and one-third with her new husband. Everybody agreed – and that’s how the seasons were born and how the growth of crops was explained.
Just like a seed, Persephone spends few months of the year below the earth. This is the period of Demeter’s grief which coincides with the dark, winter months. However, when the time comes for Persephone to go back to her mother, Demeterbrings back the light and the warmth and the earth rejoices in abundance.
adapted from https://www.greekmythology.com/Other_Gods/Persephone/persephone.html |
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