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