Ms. Coston's Classroom: Recent Episodes

Jennifer Coston

Stories and materials for the English Language Arts classroom

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Playing around

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The intro to this episode offers guided questions for you to consider as you read.  There are also questions at about 8 mins. and 18 mins.  Enjoy!

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The intro gives you guided questions to consider as you read Book 10.  I have also interspersed questions throughout the reading, and there is a brief discussion about where we are in the Odyssey timeline at about 29 minutes in.

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The first segment of the episode (4 mins. long) is my introduction to Book 5 with a brief recap of events and guiding questions to bring your attention to important things to take note of as you read.  

My reading of Book 5 begins at 4:01.  

The third segment (4.5 mins long./starts at 6:36) interrupts the reading for an explanation of what a Homeric simile is using the Homeric simile in lines 51-57 as an example.