Ancient Literature

Vocabulary: Quiz on these ten words next week.

1. bivouac: temporary living quarters
2. bravado: swaggering show of courage
3. carrion: dead and rotting body of animal
4. consort: keep company with
5. craggy : having steep hills
6. dauntless: fearless
7. defile: make dirty or spotty
8. dowry: money brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
9. elated: proud and joyful
10. feud: bitter quarrel

Assignment: Read book one of The Iliad. 

Heroes in Literature

Vocabulary: Quiz on these Latin words next week.

1. primus: first
2 secondus: second
3. teritus: third
4. quartus: fourth
5. quintus: fifith
6. sextus: sixth
7. septimus: seventh
8. octavus: eighth
9. nonus: ninth
10. decimus: tenth

Assignment: Finish Robin Hood. 

Ancient Literature

Vocabulary: Quiz on these ten words next week.

1. acumen: shrewdness shown by keen insight
2. bellicose: showing a disposition ready to fight
3. chicanery: the use of tricks to deceive someone
4. circumnavigate: travel the globe (world)
5. deciduous: shedding foliage at the end of the growing season
6. equinox: when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator
7. filibuster: tactic for delaying legislation by making long speeches
8. hubris: overbearing pride
9. impeach: bring an accusation against
10. lexicon: reference book containing an alphabetical list of words

Assignment: Write a 700-800 word essay about The Cat of Bubastes on one of the following prompts:
1. Discus Henty's ability to weave Egyptian culture into the story of his characters. Give at least three examples of this from the text. Be sure to support what you say using historical evidence.
2.Is Henty a storyteller or a master at characterization? Give three specific examples to defend your thesis.

Heroes in Literature

Vocabulary: Quiz on these ten words next week.

Latin
1. cor, cordis: heart
2. dorsum: back
3. mons, montis: mountain
4. humus: earth, soil
5. folium: leaf
6. sal, salis: salt
7. mare: ocean, sea

Greek
8. athlon: prize, award
9. agon: contest, struggle
10. dromos: race, course, running hippodrome

Assignment: Project topics are due. Read the next four chapters in Robin Hood. Order King Arthur His Knights of the Round Table. 

Ancient Literature

Vocabulary: No vocabulary this week.

Assignment: Project topics are due next week. Finish reading the Cat of Bubastes. Make sure you have a copy of The Illiad. 

Heroes in Literature

Vocabulary: Quiz on these ten words next week.

Greek
1. schole: leisure time
2. latros: doctor, physician
3. holos: whole, entire
4. rhinos: nose, snout
5. derma: skin, hide

Latin
6. ludo, lusus: play, mock
7. medicus: physician
8. sanus: healthy, not diseased
9. cornu: horn
10. cutis: skin, hide

Assignment: Read the next four chapters in Robin Hood.

Ancient Literature

Vocabulary: Test on 50 words next week.

Assignment: Read chapters 12-15 in The Cat of Bubastes.