Tell Me about a Complicated Man: August 23, 2019

Focus: What is the function of the Telemachy (the first four books of The Odyssey)?

Please turn in your first poetry responses.

1. Warming up with a Foster approach to eating

2. Offering you an overview of Socratic seminars and reading tickets

3. Creating our first Socratic ticket for the Telemachy

4. Discussing the Telemachy in a shortened Socratic seminar; debriefing with kudos, epiphanies, and lingering questions

HW:
1. For Monday:

• Reread Books 5 through 9 of The Odyssey and create a reading ticket (handwritten or typed) to prepare for our first full Socratic seminar. For now, I recommend generating either a giant list of questions, or a shorter list of questions with some of your own brainstorming underneath each one. Feel free to invoke Foster!

2. For Wednesday:

• Bring your laptop to class.