Read Hesiod’s Works and Days:(lines 1-319): go to http://www.gutenberg.org/files/348/348-h/348-h.htm#link2H_4_0018 , scroll down to “HESIOD,” and click on Works and Days: read lines (ll.) 1-319. For the second reading, go back to the “HESIOD” category, and a few links down from Works and Days, click on the link for The Theogony and read lines 507-612 only. There are TWO HESIOD EXCERPTS—these are two separate texts. Also read the excerpt from The Odyssey at http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.22.xxii.html : Book XXII (click on the little right arrow on the bottom of the page to continue) and also Book XXIII up to “At last, however, Ulysses said, "Wife, we have not yet reached the end of our troubles.” This is a prose version, although Homer wrote it as an epic poem. Also, it uses the Romanized version of names: Ulysses instead of Odysseus, Minerva instead of Athena, etc.
Read Hesiod’s Works and Days: (lines 1-319): go to http://www.gutenberg.org/files/348/348-h/348-h.htm#link2H_4_0018 , scroll down to “HESIOD,” and click on Works and Days: read lines (ll.) 1-319. For the second reading, go back to the “HESIOD” category, and a few links down from Works and Days, click on the link for The Theogony and read lines 507-612 only. There are TWO HESIOD EXCERPTS—these are two separate texts. Also read the excerpt from The Odyssey at http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.22.xxii.html : Book XXII (click on the little right arrow on the bottom of the page to continue) and also Book XXIII up to “At last, however, Ulysses said, "Wife, we have not yet reached the end of our troubles.” This is a prose version, although Homer wrote it as an epic poem. Also, it uses the Romanized version of names: Ulysses instead of Odysseus, Minerva instead of Athena, etc. After reading, come up with three discuss question. DISCUSSION QUESTION CHECKLIST 1) Is the question only about the specific excerpt(s) of literature assigned for that day? 2) If there is more than one text assigned for that day, is there at least one question on each reading? (If there are questions on more than one text, please identify which text the question is about.) If there are two or three questions on a single text, are they spread out within the text? 3) Does the question include a specific quotation (of more than a few words) from the assigned reading? 4) Is the location of the quote given? (This means the line number, page number, chapter, sura, verse, book number—including all identifying numbers so that it is easy to find the quote—OR, if there are no numbers, there should be a description of the place in the text given, such as beginning, middle, end, with a short description of what is happening.) 5) Are there only 3 questions total? Is there only one question within each question? 6) Is it a factual question, answered somewhere in the assigned excerpt? (not good—no credit). 7) Is it a simply yes-no or either-or question (not good), or is it an open question that could have a variety of answers? 8) Is it a research question that a google search might answer? (not good). 9) Does each question refer to a different quotation? 10) Does the question clearly connect to the quotation? 11) Does the question ask for a paraphrase of the quotation? (no credit—choose a part of the text that you do understand to make a question about). 12) Don’t answer your own questions, and don’t give your interpretation and ask if other people agree. 13) Quotations should be from the literary text assigned (only the assigned excerpt) and not from any editorial commentary. Likewise, questions should be about the literary text assigned (only the assigned excerpts), not about any editorial commentary on the text.