THE ILIAD TEST 10-9-12 & 10-10-12

                                                                                                                                           

                                                                       ENGLISH 4

                                                                       THE ILIAD

                                                                 OCTOBER 9, 2012

OBJECTIVE: BY THE END OF CLASS TODAY SWBAT APPLY THE SKILLS OF

                       LITERARY ANALYSIS TO HOMER’S ILIAD.

DO NOW:  AS YOU READ THE ILIAD YOU MUST KNOW THAT THE GREEKS

                   ORIGINALLY WENT INTO BATTLE WITH TROY IN ORDER TO

                   RECAPTURE HELEN WHO WAS STOLEN FROM THEM.  THINK

                  IN TERMS OF BATTLE OR WAR.  HOW COULD THE RECATURE

                  OF HELEN BE CONSIDERED AS A DEFENSIVE ACT TO GREECE?

DIRECT INSTRUCTION:  SILENT READING & OPEN BOOK QUIZ PAGES 67 TO

                                             71 OF THE ILIAD.  NOTICE THESE BULLETED POINTS

·      AS BOOK 22 OPENS, THE EXHAUSTED TROJANS TAKES REFUGE BEHIND THE WALLS OF THEIR CITY, BUT HECTOR’S PARENTS URGE THEIR SON TO COME BACK INSIDE THE CITY WALLS.  BUT HECTOR RESOLVES TO STAY EXPOSED OUTSIDE THE GATES.  AFTER AN INNER STRUGGLE IN WHICH HE CONSIDERS SIMPLY BARGAINING WITH ACHILLES PEACEFULLY, HECTOR DECIDES TO FIGHT TO THE DEATH.  AS ACHILLES BEARS DOWN ON HIM, THOUGH, HECTOR PANICS AND FLEES IN FEAR.  AN EPIC CHASE AROUND THE WALLS OF TROY BEGINS,  LOOKING DOWN FROM MOUNT OLYMPUS, ZEUS CONSIDERS SAVING HECTOR FROM CERTAIN DEATH. ATHENA PROTESTS VEHEMENTLY, HOWEVER, AND ZEUS ALLOWS HER TO DO AS SHE WISHES.  ATHENA RACES DOWN FROM MOUNT OLYMPUS TO HELP ACHILLES, HER FAVORITE.  HECTOR’S FATE IS SEALED.

·      HUBRIS IS A WORD THAT MEANS PRIDE AND HECTOR HAS PLACED HIMSELF IN MORTAL                 DANGER BECAUSE OF PRIDE.

                                                                                                                                    

·      THE TROJAN ARMY HAS BEEN CRIPPLED BECAUSE HECTOR ARROGANTLY IGNORED THE GOOD ADVICE OF POLYDAMAS. AND NOW HECTOR FEELS HIMSELF BOUND TO TRY TO RECTIFY THAT MISTAKE BY KILLING ACHILLES SINGLE-HANDEDLY.  EXCESSIVE PRIDE, OR HUBRIS, IS AN IMPORTANT THEME THROUGHOUT THE ILIAD.

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS BASED ON YOUR READING OF THE ILIAD:

1)    EXAMINE LINES 123 TO 139.  WHAT DOES HECTOR FINALLY REALIZES?  NOW EXAMINE LINES 156 TO 165.  HOW DOES HECTOR DIE?  EXPLAIN.

2)    READ LINES  1 TO 18.  IDENTIFY THE SIMILIE THAT’S BEING USED HERE?  WHAT IS ACHILLES BEING COMPARED TO?

3)    EXAMINE LINES 78 TO 98.  WHO SEEMS MORE HEROIC IN THIS EXCHANGE, HECTOR OR ACHILLES?  EXPLAIN WHY.

4)    WHAT SPECIFIC WORDS ARE USED TO DESCRIBE ACHILLES’ SPEED IN LINES 1 TO 18?

5)    EXAMINE LINES 25 TO 31.  IN WHAT WAY IS ZEUS’ SACRED GOLDEN SCALES SYMBOLIC?  WHAT ACTION DOES THESE SCALES FORESHADOW?

6)    EXAMINE LINES 34 TO 52.  EXPLAIN WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE?

7)    DEFINE THE WORD EPITHET ON PAGE 1419.  WRITE THIS DEFINITION.  THE WORD STOCK MEANS FLAT OR NOT ROUNDED IN LITERARY AND CHARACTER ANALYSIS.  WHAT STOCK EPITETH IS USED TO DESCRIBE HECTOR?  WHAT STOCK EPITETH IS USED TO DESCRIBE ACHILLES?

8)    IN YOUR OPINION DOES ATHENA’S TRICK ON HECTOR SEEM UNFAIR OR UNGOD LIKE?  WHY OR WHY NOT?

9)    EXAMINE LINES 73 TO 79.  WHY IS HECTOR SO PUMPED UP AND READY TO FIGHT?

                                                                                                                              

10)  EXPLAIN IN WHY ZEUS DECLINES TO SAVE HECTOR.  FIND EVIDENCE IN THE TEXT.

GUIDED PRACTICE: (READING INFORMATIONAL TEXTS) SILENTLY READ TROJAN GOLD FROM GODS, GRAVES, AND SCHOLARS (PAGE 77 TO 78) AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1. WHERE DOES TROY LAY?
2.  DESCRIBE THRE TREASURES THAT WERE FOUND.
3. WHY DID SCHLIEMANN HAVE HIS WIFE TO SEND THE WORKERS AWAY?
4. HOW LONG HAS THE TREASURE BEEN BURIED?
5. WHAT WERE THE HAZARDS OF THIS DIG AS SCHLIEMANN DESCRIBES IT?

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE:  ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN ESSAY FORM:

1. WHAT IS HECTOR’S DYING REQUEST?  HOW DOES ACHILLES RESPOND TO HECTOR’S REQUEST?  WHY IS IT THAT ACHILLES RESPONDS THIS WAY IN YOUR OPINION?
2. HOW IS HECTOR’S BODY ABUSED BY THE GREEKS?  PULL EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXT TO SUPPORT YOUR ANSWER.
3. ACHILLES AND HECTOR ARE BOTH RIVALS BUT ARE THEY BOTH HEROES?  DISCUSS YOUR OPINION OF EACH OF THESE CHARACTERS IN THE TERM THAT THE GREEKS REFER TO AS ARETE, OR HONOR.  DEVELOP YOUR RESPONSE IN PARAGRAPH FORM.
4. THE WRITER HOMER IS CONCERNED WITH THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOIRA, OR FATE, AND A PERSON’S CHARACTER.  DO YOU FEEL THAT HECTOR WAS DOOMED BY HIS NOBLE CHARACTER, BY FATE OR BY BOTH?  EXPLAIN IN PARAGRAPH FORM.
5. CONSIDER THE ROLE OF THE gods IN BOOK 22.  HOW DO THEY DIRECT OR INFLUENCE EVENTS?  DO YOU THINK THEIR INTERVENTION TURNS HUMAN CHARACTERS INTO PUPPETS, OR DO THE HUMANS STILL MAKE CHOICES THAT AFFECT THEIR FATE?  GIVE REASONS FOR YOUR ANSWERS AND DISCUSS THEM IN PARAGRAPH FORM.

CHECKS FOR UNDERSTANDING: DEFINE THESE TERMS:

                                                                                                                            

1. ARETE
2. HOMERIC SIMILIE
3. MOIRA

EXIT TICKET:  IDENTIFY AND LIST THE CAST OF CHARACTERS.  CHOOSE THREE AND CREATE A CHARACTER ANALYSIS BASED ON THE ACTIONS THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE IN THE ILIAD.