Week #25: February 26 – March 2

Monday

GMM
Begin Reading Chapter 19

Homework: Finish Reading Chapter 19
Focus Questions: What does one have to do to enter the Fields of Punishment, Fields of Asphodel, and Elysium? What terrible choice does Percy have to make?  How do his friends try to help him in it?
Bonus: Note-How does the author solicit sympathy for Hades?

Tuesday

Terminology Tuesday- pan, path, phil
Read: Lightning Thief Chapter 20
Complete Plot Graph through Climax

Homework: Finish Reading Chapter 20 
Focus Questions: Why does Percy suspect that Ares isn’t working alone?  How does Percy emerge victorious in the battle?
Bonus: Ares states that the best kind of war is one when relatives fight each other.  Analyze this statement.

Wednesday

Wordy Wednesday –perspective, pose, precise
Roll Play: Battling the gods
Read: Lightning Thief Chapter 21

Homework: Continue Reading Chapter 21
Focus Questions: Percy gets back at Gabe during the interview, but not later–Why?  How is Percy’s journey from and back to the Empire States Building different? 
Bonus: Why doesn’t Zeus want to discuss the voice?  What is Poseidon’s relationship with Percy?

Thursday

Thursday Language Training: Daily Oral Language
Start Reading Chapter 22

Homework: Finish the book 
Focus Questions: Explain Percy’s decision about Camp Half-Blood.  What is different about Luke’s new sword?
Bonus: What does it mean that “Western Civilization is a disease?”

Friday

Fluency Friday -Review: Daily Oral Language
Book Club
Map of the Underworld

Homework: None