What are your initial impressions of reading the Odyssey? Was it what you thought it would be? Is it totally different than what you had expected? What strategies work effectively for you?
The Odyssey: Anticipations, Expectations, Information
How do you feel about approaching the Odyssey? What do you know about it? What are your concerns? 
Free will?
Free will is defined as “free and independent choice; voluntary decision”; fate is defined as “something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot.”
Imagine this scenario: Janie and her mother were leaving the grocery storee after completing their grocery shopping on Sunday. It was only 9 o’clock in the evening. Janie’s mother unfortunately has to work on Sundays which accounts for the late grocery story trip. On the way home, a drunk driver collided with Janie and her mother. Janie was killed instantaneously and her mother broker her neck.
If you had to choose, in the case of Jane and her mother, what would you blame free will or fate?
Writing an Obituary
What, in your mind, would be the worst way to die? You can discuss actual circumstances (disease, mauling by animal, etc.) or the conditions under which you die (if I hadn’t done this, etc.)?
Europa
Remember that we are using Edith Hamilton as a window into the character of the gods. Give me a recap of the myth. Which gods does it touch upon? How does it reflect on their character?
Ala al-Din
What were your initial impressions of the tale? Whose culture do you think the original tale reflects as well as the classic Disney tale that we all know? What were the differences?
Chapters 40-42 Great Expectations
Please choose from the following prompts:
1. Describe how your opinions of Magwitch have changed since the beginning of the book.
2. Who is Compeyson? Identify two coincidences involving him. Why does Magwitch hate him?
3. How does Magwitch’s life story affect what you think of him? What effect does it have on Pip?
Great Expectations 39 Post
Please take out your “Literary Terms You Should Be Using in Your Journal.” Look over the list and find an example of one of the literary terms in chapter 39. What is it and why is it significant? It can be something as simple as simile or metaphor.
Great Expectations Chapters 37 and 38 Post
Please choose one question to respond to:
1.Reread the descriptions of Miss Havisham. What images does the author invoke to describe her? Why?
2. Why does Wemmick give advice at Walworth that contradicts what he has said on Gerrard Street? How is Pip changing? Why does he cry after returning from Walworth?
A1 GE chapters 35 and 36 Post
Please pick one of the following prompts to respond to:
1. Why does Pip say the following? Why does Dickens choose these particular words:
“It was the first time that grace had opened in my road of life, and the gap it made in the smooth ground was wonderful.”
2. What is the feeling behind Mr. Trabb’s cry of ”‘Pocket handkerchiefs out, all!’” (280)?
3. What is the significance of the imagery in the following passage: “Once more, the mists were rising as I walked away. If they disclosed to me, as I suspect they did, that I should not come back, and that Biddy was quite right all I can say is — they were quite right too” (285)?
4, Why does Jaggers say, “‘I don’t ask you what you owe, because you don’t know; and if you did know, you wouldn’t tell me; you would say less. Yes, yes, my friend,’ cried Mr. Jaggers, waving his forefinger to stop me, as I made a show of protesting: ‘it’s likely enough that you think you wouldn’t, but you would. You’ll excuse me, but I know better than you’” (287)? How does Jaggers continue to impose himself on Pip and Herbert in this chapter?
