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List / Take Notes on Act I clip / Read Act I / Review DJ process

Freshmen: Take Myth Quiz /Intro SAT #10/ Take notes on The Epic Hero

Dec. 14,

2015

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Homework: All: Ex. 1 &2 JUNIORS: WRITE 4 DJS FOR ACT I: DUE THE DAY AFTER WE FINISH READING

THE ACT.Freshmen: The Trojan War by

Wednesday

Pegasus, Bellerophon, and Daedalus Quiz

1.Why does Bellerophon believe that he can be equal to the gods?

2.Explain Bellerophon’s supernatural aid.3.Explain at least one of Bellerophon’s tests/trials.4.What Greek belief/value does his story illustrate?5.Why was Daedalus imprisoned in the Labrynth?6.What cultural value comes out of Icarus’ disaster?7.How does Minos find Daedalus after his escape?

#1 Idolatry: n. excessive or blind adoration; worship of an object

Some pediatricians have accused overprotective parents of child idolatry.

“Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.”-Philip Dorner Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th

#2 Adulterate: v. to make impure; to contaminate syn: taint; corrupt / ant: refine; refined

By adding water to the wine, the shabby restaurant adulterated its quality and cheated

the customers.

“Ghost. The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown. Hamlet. O my prophetic soul! My uncle? Ghost. Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast.”-Shakespeare, Hamlet

#3 Emanate: v. to come forth; to send forthsyn: rise; emerge

A steady stream of water emanated from the broken fire hydrant.

“Speech emanating from a pure heart and mind of learned men and scholars are naturally pure just like water of a river.”-Yajur Veda

#4 Garish: adj. tastelessly gaudysyn: showy; glaring; flashy / ant: sedate; conservative

Some store window displays are simple and elegant, but others are garish and trashy.

“When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.”-Skakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

#5 Immutable: adj. unchangeable; fixedsyn: enduring / ant: flexible; changeable

The aging actress spent thousands on cosmetic surgery, only to find that the effects of age and

gravity are immutable.

“Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.”-Ralph J. Cudworth

#6 Diadem: n. a crown

Looking to upgrade her image, the queen had her diadem encrusted with jewels.

“Nature, like us, is sometimes caughtWithout her diadem.”-Emily Dickinson

#7 Bucolic: adj. pertaining to the countryside; rural; rustic syn: pastoral / ant: urban

Unicorns and griffins frolicked in the bucolic and verdant landscape.

“I tire of the labour of thinking, and, when the table is finished, start practical jokes and set all playing at games, which we carry on with bucolic boisterousness.”-Jack London, John Barleycorn

#8 Redolent: adj. having a pleasant odor; suggestive or evocativesyn: aromatic / ant: acrid

The crooked politician conducted a campaign redolent of vice and

corruption.

“My weary soul they seem to soothe,And, redolent of joy and youth,To breathe a second spring.”-Thomas Gray

#9 Impecunious: adj. without money; pennilesssyn: destitute; indigent / ant: affluent; prosperous

Despite their impecunious status, the family lived healthily and happily through foraging

and hunting.

“As it was precisely of that love that poor Winsett was starving to death, Archer looked with a sort of vicarious envy at this eager impecunious young man who had fared so richly in his poverty.”-Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

#10 Sedition: n. rebellion or resistance against the government syn: treachery; disloyalty

No self-respecting government allows sedition and its rebellious methods to go unpunished.

“The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority... it is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people.”-Frank I, Cobb

#11 Defile: v. to pollute; to corrupt

An immoral act defiles the character of those who do it and those who let it

happen.

“To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.”-Simone Well

#12 Gratuitous: adj. unnecessary or uncalled for

Geri’s directions were helpful, but her gratuitous details confused the lost

travelers, and they were forced to stop and ask someone else for directions.

“Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one's own.”-Mahatma Gandhi

#13 Onus: n. a burden; a responsibilitysyn: obligation

John accepted the onus of explaining why his group was late.

“Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.”-Dennis Prager

#14 Impious: adj. disrespectful toward Godsyn: irreligious; profane / ant: devout; pious

Larry joined in the impious laughter at the bumbling clergyman.

“When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.”-Pierre Corneille

#15 Caveat: n. a warningsyn: admonition; caution

Remember the buyer’s caveat: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

“Caveat emptor” means “let the buyer beware.”

SAT Vocabulary for Freshmen

Lesson #10Quiz Friday

1. Fallible. Adj. capable of error.

syn: imperfect / ant. Infallible; flawless

Flawed data programmed into a computer delivers fallible output, or,

as the saying goes, garbage in, garbage out.

“She is a daughter of earth; you are an angel of heaven; only be not too austere

in your divinity, and remember that I am a poor, fallible mortal.”

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall byAnne Bronte

2. Blatant. Adj. obvious; too conspicuous.Syn: unconcealed; deliberate /

ant. Secretive; cautiousMarilyn saw blatant fashion errors all around her, so she wore understated

outfits.

“One of those very blatant idiots whose blundering is costing the country millions of money and thousands of brave men, has still enough authority to treat our reports as o much waste paper.”

The Kingdom of the Blind by E. Phillips Oppenheim

3. Dawdle: Verb. To waste time syn. Tarry; loiter / ant.hasten; expediteYou dawdle and dally and always arrive late.

“There is no help for it; your best chance will be to get by her as fast as ever you can, for if you dawdle about her rock while you are putting on your armour, she may catch you with a second cast of her six heads, and snap up another half dozen of your men; so drive your ship past her at full speed, and roar out lustily to Crataiis who is Scylla's dam, bad luck to her; she will then stop her from making a second raid upon you.”

The Odyssey by Homer

4. Affiliate. Noun. An associate or partner

syn: member; colleague Siegfried became an honorary affiliate of Save the Kinkajous, but soon regretted it

when one of the animals attacked him.

“Perhaps the word is misused, and he is better described as a nihilist, or an annihilist. It is known that he

affiliated with none of the groups of terrorists. He operated wholly alone, but he created a thousandfold more terror and achieved a thousandfold

more destruction than all the terrorist groups added together.”

The Strength of the Strong by Jack London

5. Fawn. verb. To act slavishly submissive.Syn: grovel /

ant: ignore; disregard; neglectWeekly magazines encourage their readers

to fawn over the current popular celebrities.

“Again and again, as he looked at each brutal performance, the lesson was driven

home to Buck: a man with a club was a lawgiver, a master to be obeyed, though not necessarily conciliated. Of this last

Buck was never guilty, though he did see beaten dogs that fawned upon the man,

and wagged their tails, and licked his hand. Also he saw one dog, that would

neither conciliate nor obey, finally killed in the struggle for mastery.”

Jack London, The Call of the Wild

6. Calumny: noun. A false and malicious accusation

syn: slander; slur/ant: compliment.

No calumny was used to win the election.

“Supposing you are right in your indictment, how can you raise

any question of calumny or gossip, in your case?”

Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad

7. Berate. verb. To scold or rebuke severely and at length.

syn: admonish; reprimand /ant: praise

Instead of berating the insistent beggar, Frederick took him to a diner

and bought him a meal.

“Well, one day--and an ill day it was for that saucy fellow--he sought to berate my father, I standing by.”

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

8. Minion. Noun. A fawning servile follower.

syn: lackey / ant: leaderThe minions kept their leader from seeing that his country was plunging

into chaos.

“I made slow headway at first, but I began to get dissatisfied at the idea of paying my minion five francs to hold my mule back by the tail and keep him from going up the hill, and so I discharged him.”

The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

9. Desolate. adj. lonely; forlorn; unihabited; barren

syn: deserted; bleak / ant: populous; cheerful

After giant ants took over the high school auditorium, the assemblies acquired a desolate and alienated

look.

“In a silent, desolate spot, In the night stone-frozen and clear, The

wanderer's hand on the sail is gripped by the fingers of fear.”

A Lute of Jade by L. Cranmer-Byng

10. Bane. noun. The cause of ruin, harm, distress, or death.

syn: blight; curse /ant: aid; assistance

“You are the bane of my existence,” choleric John said to his annoying

stockbroker.

“Generally, such men in all deliberations find ease to be of the negative side, and affect a credit to object and foretell difficulties; for when propositions are denied, there is an end of them; but if they be allowed, it requireth a new work; which false point of wisdom is the bane of business.”

The Essays by Sir Francis Bacon

11. Pacify. verb. To calm down.syn: appease; placate / ant: provoke;

agitateThe negotiator tried to pacify the angry group of outside agitators.

“He brought with him several slices of meat in order to pacify the Housedog, so that he would not alarm his master by barking.”

Fables by Aesop

12. Garble. verb. to mix up or distort.

syn: jumble; corrupt

When you are tired, it is easy to garble the simplest instructions.

“A reporter present seized upon the word "revolution," divorced it from the text, and wrote a garbled account that made Emil Gluck appear an anarchist. At once, "Professor Gluck, anarchist," flamed over the wires and was appropriately "featured" in all the newspapers in the land.”

The Strength of the Strong by Jack London

13. Prevaricate. v.

to lie.syn: hedge

Prevaricate all you want, but sooner or later the truth will

come out.

“He could not backbite, nor envy, nor prevaricate, nor jump at mean motives for generous

acts.”

The Little White Bird by James Matthew Barrie

14. Filch. verb. To steal.

syn: pilfer ;pinch

J.K. Rowling named the Hogwarts’ caretaker Argus Filch because he is as sneaky as a

thief.

“You don't need to be taught how to

swindle the master, and to filch fur

coats.”

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

15. Neophyte. Noun. A beginner

syn: novice;amateur / ant. expert; veteranPeople love to see the

neophytes beat the experts.

“Her whole soul was possessed by the fact that a fuller life was

opening before her: she was a neophyte about to enter on a higher grade

of initiation.”

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Muses

101...

They are nine in

number, the daughters

of Zeus and

Mnemosyne, Memory.

They help artists to

“forget” their troubles

so that they can

create. There is a

muse for history,

astronomy, tragedy,

comedy, dance, epic

poetry, love-poetry,

songs to the gods, and

lyric poetry.`

In the middle of

what?The poem opens in

medias res—in the

middle of the action

—and presents

necessary exposition

in later portions of

the epic.

Also, epics contain:

Catalogs of warriors,

ships, and armies.

Greek Heroes Share More Than

Fame...Greek Hero Structure

The Greek nobility valued

strength and skill, for these

attributes enabled the person

who possessed them to

achieve glory and honor,

both in his lifetime and after

he died.

This value is known as

Arête.

What's wrong with being

great????Arête = striving for excellence:

Strength, skill, courage,

intelligence, insight,

ingenuity: Be the best of the

best.

What is the danger of Arête?

What was the danger of

Arête Again?

The hero forgets his

human limitations and

thinks he’s greater

than he actually is…

Which leads to…

Hubris = excessive

pride.

What is the danger of

hubris?

What is the big-deal danger of

hubris?Hero does / says something

excessive without thinking of

the consequences…

Which leads to…

Até = blind, rash behavior.

Até leads to…

What the heck could Até

possibly do?

I know... It could

bring

Nemesis=retributi

on: gods punish

hero directly or

other humans

punish him. Either

way the hero

brought his fate

upon himself

through free-will.

So What Else do Greek Heroes Have in Common?

1. A fundamenta

l belief in freedom

Greek Heroes, cont.

2. A supreme pride (hubris)

Greek Heroes, cont.3. Capacity for

suffering

Greek Heroes, cont.

4. Strong sense of commitment

Greek Heroes, cont.5. Not too

good/ too bad

Greek Heroes, cont.

6. Flaw “hamartia”

(term used in archery to

mean, “near miss”)

Greek Heroes, cont.

7. Vigorous protest of limitations, fate, or any reality that doesn't quite fit into the hero's

plan. And the hero receives a

punishment that is deserved, but is

more severe than his crime.

Greek Heroes, cont.

8. At some point every hero undergoes a major

Transformation as a result of his conflicts and

fate. This is called the “Fall.”

Greek Heroes, cont.

9. After the Transformation, the hero

experiences some Impact (understanding). In other words, the light bulb goes off. So the Fall

wasn't all bad, he gains wisdom and knowlege that he never would have gotten otherwise.

Greek Heroes, cont.10. Finally, the hero, at

least partially, chooses

fate.

Honor Code“I have neither given nor received any unauthorized aid, nor do I have knowledge of anyone else doing so.” Signature

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