For Starters

I copied some of this post from Ms. Higgins in 2009.

Greetings and Salutations!

I don't know about the rest of you, but I find that when I am faced with reading something new and unfamiliar to me, I like to know a little bit about the plot before I delve into the meat and potatoes of the book. Since we have all used Codes of Comprehension for Fiction, you all understand that plot is just the surface of most works -- simply, it is "what happens." While we will be reading The Odyssey to understand the plot, there is much more to this classic work that begs to be explored. For those of you who may find it helpful, there's a book-by-book (that's like chapters or parts) summary of the storyline on the following website:

http://www.mythweb.com/odyssey/background_s.html

Poetic meter refers to the rhythm of a poem. Poems consist of words that have a series of stressed and unstressed syllables, and these patterns create meter. Here is an excellent lesson on poetic meter that everyone should read:

http://faculty.nwacc.edu/ljlovell/Powerpoints/meternew.ppt

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Mr. Matluck