Novels:

 

Mythology              by Edith Hamilton           ISBN# 031634157 ________________________________________________________________

Assignment(s):

READER RESPONSE JOURNALS

Your reading assignment and response journal assignment have been divided for you as follows:

Entry #1: Part One, Section I: The Gods

Entry #2: Part One, Sections II, III, & IV: The Two Great Gods of Earth, How the World and Mankind were created, The Earliest Heroes

Entry #3: Part Two, Sections I & II: Cupid & Psyche, Eight Brief Tales of Lovers

Entry #4: Part Two, Sections III & IV: The Quest of the Golden Fleece, Four Great Adventures

Entry #5: Part Three, Sections I, II, III, & IV: Perseus, Theseus, Hercules, Atalanta

Entry #6: Part Four, Sections I, II, & III: The Trojan War, Fall of Troy, The Adventures of Odysseus

Entry #7: Part Four, Section IV: The Adventures of Aeneas

Entry #8: Part Five, Sections I, II, & III: The House of Atreus, The Royal House of Thebes, The Royal House of Athens

Entry #9: Part Six, Sections I & II: Midas – And Others, Brief Myths

Entry #10: Final Entry: Connections between tale(s) of choice and previously read work (approximately 1 page in length)

 For each section listed, you will complete a reader-response journal entry where you will comment on all or any of the following: character development, theme, symbolism, your own personal insights about the reading, and/or Hamilton’s use of literary devices. PLEASE AVOID MERE SUMMARIZING! Each entry should be approximately about 1 to 1 1/2 pages long.

When you finish the novel, your last entry should consist of an essay (approximately one page) that discusses connections between any of the tales in Mythology and a novel or short story you read in eighth grade. Again, in this entry, you may choose to comment on all or any of the following: character development, theme, symbolism, your own personal insights about the readings, and/or the author’s use of literary devices. Again, DO NOT MERELY SUMMARIZE!

Additional assignments will be given in class during the first week of school. Please bring your response journals, along with your book, on the first day of class.

This assignment will be worth multiple grades; please do not take it lightly!

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