10/3 Iris Lee Period 5

10/3/19

Iris Lee

Period 5

Blogger #13

Aim: How does William Golding formulate the island into a microcosm of World War II through allegory?

Do Now: Compare a school structure to a structure of government and how it equates.

Comparisons:

Principals to Presidents

Assistant Principals to Cabinet/Vice President

Teachers to Governors

Student Council to State Senates

Deans to Supreme Court

Students to Citizens

Elaborating from that idea of a school structure compared to a government structure, we learned about microcosm.

Microcosm: a representation of something on a much smaller scale. Microcosm means "small world"

*Only applies to intangible concepts or ideas

ex: lock downs are based on military drills

Allegory: a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning typically a moral or practical one.

From that, students discussed amongst the class about events that happened in World War II. Every part of Lord of the Flies was in line with what was happening with the war at the time.

World War II was an inspiration of literature.

Compared Hitler to Jack, Roosevelt to Ralph, and Churchill to Piggy.

Group Work

1) The boys were on a plane flying out of Britain to escape the war, what is so tragically ironic about the situation they're creating for themselves?

My group discussed how the boys were essentially trying to escape a war just to enter another war.

Overall, today we learned about how the Lord of the Flies was a microcosm of World War II. We find that the Lord of the Flies was an allegory where we discover Jack could be compared to Hitler, Ralph to Roosevelt, and Piggy to Churchill. The island was more or less a smaller version of the whole world around them at that time. I learned that sometimes you are able to find a meaning in a piece of work when interpreting it closely.

10/3/19 Winston Lee Period 8

10/3/19

Aim: How do the images of the Greco-Roman gods/goddesses enlighten modern philosophy?


Do Now: Take the following qualities and list them in order of personal importance:


BRAWN, WISDOM, JUSTICE, VALOR/BRAVERY, PATIENCE, NURTURING, REASON, PURITY, TRUTH, BEAUTY, INNOVATION, CHARITY, LOVE, ATHLETICISM, CUNNING, CONFIDENCE, MERCY


Looking at your list, and the antonyms appearing as a juxtaposition, do you feel the diction demonstrates who you are and/or who you strive to be compared against what you personally despise?


After ranking these qualities in order of personal importance, we compared our top 5 to those of our group members in order to see how much we shared in common. After having a class discussion on which one of these characteristics we ordered based on personal importance. From this discussion, we discovered that people ranked these characteristics based on different reasoning, some ranked in order of what they want to see in other people, while others ranked in order on what they want to see in themselves and/or improve on. We then worked in pairs to attempt to categorize these characteristics by coming up with nouns that would show the opposite of each one. After doing so, we had a class discussion on the nouns we came up with and discovered that for some words the majority of the class came up with similar nouns, where for others the class disagreed on certain nouns.


WRATH, SLOTH, LUST, PRIDE, GREED, PUTTONY, ENVY - These are known as the 7 deadly sins


Ancient Greek city-states constructed temples and shrines to the gods/goddesses that most influenced their value systems and economy. As you know, Athens is named for Athena (though that is a separate story), Sparta had a temple for Artemis (because despite their focus on military, they were also ancient feminists). Using what you have learned about the gods, which god(s) would your team build a shrine for? Why?


My team decided to build a shrine for Hermes, because he shared a lot of the character traits that my group wanted to have in common, such as intelligence and cunning. He also got along with most of the gods/goddesses.

10/2/19 Gabriella Krichevsky Period 8

10/2/19

Gabriella Krichevsky Period 8 Blogger #12

Aim: How does Greek mythology highlight the values, principles, and apex of human-kind?

Do now: POP Quiz!

Kahoot after pop quiz 

How does Edith Hamilton define Mythology?

-myth was created in a time when people had a deep connection with nature and the earth.

-little distinction had been made between the real and unreal.

-mankind believed that it would suffer the wrath of some divinity and the only way to keep the divinity at bay was through sacrifice, pain, and/or suffering.

-the first written record of Greek mythology begins with Homer’s “the Iliad”

-1,000 years before Christ

-the Greeks, unlike the Egyptians, made their gods in their own image.

-mankind became the center of the universe with the Greeks.

-the gods before the Greeks were colossal, intimidating, otherworldly.

-the Greek gods had human-like qualities which included amiability and fury.

-the men who made the myths had an affinity for the rational.

-magic and witchcraft is almost devoid in Greek Mythology, with the exception of Medea and Circe.

-The Greeks honored the poet more than the priest.

-there are no ghosts in Greek Mythology; the did not fear the dead.

What did i learn?

I learned about what really defines mythology and the restrictions of what defines mythology.

Why did i learn this?

This helped me to better understand the mythology background of this class, and what i will be learning this year.

How will i use what i learned?

This background knowledge of Mythology that we learned in class today can be used to develop and further my knowledge of mythology in the future of the class.

10/2/19 Benjamin Evelson Pd 2

10/02/19

Benjamin Evelson Pd. 2

Although no notes were taken today, students walked in today after a four day weekend into a reading check pop quiz on the first 12 pages of Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton. In these 12 pages, the reader is introduced to Greek mythology, learning how mythology shows how humans thought and felt, how Homer created the first written record of Greece with the Iliad, which contains the oldest Greek literature, and even the difference between how the Greeks made the g-ds in their own image, while the Egyptians made them human-animal hybrids. After being tested on our knowledge of an introduction to mythology, with five tough questions, our teacher flipped to the next slide to reveal that we were going to do a classwide Kahoot, based off of the passage as well. Totaling up to 16 questions, and a ton of competition, the top two places went to group 2, scoring them 170 points, while team 3 got third, gaining 50 points to their total.

10/2/19 Billy Dong PD 7

October 2, 2019

Billy Dong  PD 7

Notes:

Class took reading check quiz in order to find out what students learned from pages 1-12 of Mythology by Edith Hamilton

Played Kahoot! so Ms. Fusaro can figure out what the student don’t understand

The first few pages of the book Mythology explains how Greek mythology separates itself

from other mythology and religion. 

Greek mythology, unlike Egyptian mythology, had humanized deities that had flaws much

like humans. The Greeks appreciate the beauty of humans and therefore made their gods

similar to them while in Egyptian mythology, deities were feared and was made to look like

hybrids. The Egyptian mythology also puts emphasis on preparing for death while the Greeks

just accepted as part of their lives. 

Edith Hamilton also clearly defines the line that separates Greek mythology from religion.

Although both religion and Greek mythology has common aspects such as having

gods and goddesses, religion includes many other things such as a moral code that

people must live by. Greek mythology, on the other hand, was an explanation that the

Greeks came up with on why things happen in nature. To the Greeks, these stories are

no different than science is to people right now. 

Knowings these differences allows the students to further understand these stories

as they learn their origins. In the future, as we continue to read these stories, we

would have a better understanding of where these stories come from and how the

Greeks thought of the stories. 

10/2/19 Nafi Osmani PD1

10/2/19 Nafi Osmani Modern Mythology 2020 PD 1

10/2/19

Nafi Osmani, Period 1

Modern Mythology 2020

“Introduction to Classical Mythology” Pages 1-12 of Edith Hamilton’s Mythology Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Do Now: Reading Check Quiz

To start off today’s Modern Mythology class we completed a reading check quiz for pages 1-12 “Introduction to Classical Mythology” of Edith Hamilton’s Mythology Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. The reading check quiz comprised of five short-response questions, which asked for concise answers. The questions were similar to the ones provided below:

Greek and Egpytian Mythology focused on the ______ in people’s lives

How are Greek Mythology and Egyption Mythology similar and different?

Who is the first known writer of Greek Mythology?

What is unique about the story of Circe and Medea?

After the reading check quiz, we went over some information of Greek Mythology, specifically Mythology as told by author Edith Hamilton.

Some information to take note of Greek Mythology and Egyptian Mythology from Edith Hamilton includes that:

Greek Mythology is also folklore, in the sense that is believed to have stemmed from centuries of oral tradition from, or in ancient Greece. 

Greek Mythology did not fear the dead and or did not believe in ghosts.

Gods in Greek Mythology looked like and behaved like humans, where as gods in Egyptian Mythology looked like hybrids between animals and humans.

Greek Mythology emerged before christianity, and that in comparison of the origins of Greek Mythology and Egyptian Mythology, Egyptian Mythology emerged first.

Greek Mythology is not a religion, but the ideas of Greek Mythology, such as gods were incorporated into everyday lives and or beliefs of ancient greeks. 

Elements of the savage, brutal, or “barbaric” past life of Greeks remained in Greek Mythology.

Once we went over this information, for the remaining duration of class we played a game of Kahoot which was originally meant to gauge our initial understanding of classical Mythology but as our class learned and Ms. Fusaro learned became a tool that gauged the number of students who actually read the assigned reading that was due today Wednesday, October 2nd after returning from a four-day weekend. The results of the 16 question Kahoot game were: Jacob in first place, myself in second place, and Edward in third place, with 100, 70, and 50 point awards respectively which resulted in Team 2 Labyrinth Navigators earning 150 points and Team 4 αφρόκρεμα earning 70 points. 

What did I learn? Today in Mythology,  I learned how to distinguish between Greek and Egyptian Mythology and specifically learned about key features of Greek Mythology in addition to some misconceptions that people might have had about or with Greek Mythology.

Why did I learn it? I learned this because this is the introduction to classical mythology lesson, which in other words means that the information that I learned today will serve as a strong background or stepping ground as we dive further into Mythology and the topics that are covered in Edith Hamilton’s Mythology Timeless Tales of  Gods and Heroes. 

How will I use what I learned? I will use what I learned in this lesson to further understand and keep a note of the similarities, differences, and key features of the different types of mythology that we will learn in this class, which so far are Greek Mythology, Egyptian Mythology, and Roman Mythology. I will further use the information that I learned in this lesson to excel in the discussions and activities which we will have in this unit.

9/27/19 Stanley Kong PD 8

Stanley Kong
Period 8
Modern Mythology
9/27/2019

     -Aim: How can we create and define the value of ancient mythology in contemporary?
     
Today in class, we learned the correct pronunciation and definition of the Greek words Hamartia and Hubris. Hamartia means a tragic flaw and Hubris means excessive pride. It
was said that during the Greek times, a high majority of all Hamartias were caused by Hubris. For example, envy meant you had excessive pride within yourself to believe you deserve what others have. Or greed, where you had excessive pride to believe you should keep everything to yourself and be greedy. We also discussed Icarus's death and how we labeled it insignificant. A quick recap to the lesson on the 26th where we analyzed a picture explain Icarus's death. The image was a painting of normal life where everyone is working and animals are living normally. The painting also consisted of Icarus in the dark corner drowning after he fell into the ocean. This painting made the point of no matter how high and mighty you might feel, life will always move on and someone will always be able to replace you. During today's lesson, we analyzed poems written by W. H. Auden and William Carlos Williams. Both these poems were written about Icarus and how his death was completely ignored and how irrelevant Icarus was to society and the world. The poem written by W. H. Auden talked about a farmer who had continued to till his land, the Sheperd just continued on with his day and a sailor on an expensive ship who had to get to his destination. The sailor watched in awe while Icarus fell but did not even think twice to go towards him. In Williams' poem, he talks about another farmer who was working hard in the hot sun that melted the wax of Icarus's wings. Off in the distance, there was Icarus splashing into the water while the farmer was not even aware of it. We discussed the difference between these poems and how Auden was showcasing people 'ignoring' Icarus's fall while Williams wrote about the farmer completely unaware of his death thus implying 'ignorance'. We also had a discussion about the difference between Greek philosophy and Western philosophy. The obvious meaning of the story about Icarus is don't fly near the sun but western philosophy also has a similar statement. "Reach for the stars." These two statements are complete opposites but are similar based on the wording. Our class discussed the definition of both and how they could both be implying the same meaning. One person stated that the word 'reach' implied going as far as you physically can while not actually flying near the sun. Today's lesson was extremely down to Earth and I learned the harsh reality of the world. I am not ignorant like Icarus but I am always confident with myself and sometimes I should learn to be humble as this story shows I am replaceable and very small compared to the vast universe.