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Reading strategies and resources Ulysses Chapter 4 Summary Kevin C. As Ulysses travels through the oceans, his crew complained about the lack of food. Ulysses became worried of mutiny coming up from his crew and fortunately, found an island. He decided to stop at the island and his crew ran straight to a cave with all the tempting smells of food. Then, they realized it was the cave of cyclopes who ate people with their vicious mouths and once was punished by Zeus the supreme god. Ulysses' crew and he was trapped in the cave waiting to be eaten by the enormous cyclopes, but soon, comes up with a plan. He suggests the cyclopes the wine to make him drunk and sleep then to stab him in the eye and to run away. Their covert mission started and succeed of running away. However, Ulysses makes a significant mistake; he had forgotten the gods honor courage and punish the pride that people make.

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What do you think Ulysses look likes and acts like? I, as my perspective think that Ulysses will look both smart and athletically. According to //The Adventures of Ulysses// by Bernard Evslin, Ulysses outwitted the cyclopes and Troy's tacticians by making the cyclopes blind and bringing in the Trojan Horse into the castles of Troy. Moreover, according to my knowledge (from another book about Ulysses) Ulysses killed all the men who wanted to marry Penelope, his wife with his bows and spears with rage, which can tell that Ulysses is both an athletic and smart character in the Greek Mythology. Why did Ulysses' men betray him and open the bag of winds from Aeolus? What happened to those men? Ulysses' men betrayed Ulysses by opening the bag of winds from Aeolus, thinking as the bag was full of gold and treasure. It was when Ulysses went fast asleep sheathing his sword relieved he had come back to his home Ithaca. Poseidon attracted the crew's attention making a sound that hears like gold coins hitting each other, which tempted the first crew mate.The other tried to prevent the first crew to open up the bag, but thought of gold and precious jewels in his hand and so they tried to open the bag. At last, the two men opened the bag with joy, only for a moment.

Suddenly, a whirl wind covered them up. The wind blown the men who opened the bag and made wounds to the other. It happened to be that they came back the Keeper of the Winds Aeolus summoned by the winds. Ulysses was astonished and frustrated at the moment when they were supposed to be at under the wonderful blue sky, but instead, they were under the dark sky and black sea.

** What would it be like to live on Cannibal Beach? What problems would it create to have a quicker cycle of day and night? How do you think this kept Ulysses from discovering what the trees were? ** It would be hard to survive and living in the Cannibal Beach for a human or a small living thing because of the giant ogres. The giant ogres were huge and ate a lot at one time, which would be hard to get food from near the background. They also might be stressful since, day pursues night and night chases day.

Problems that quicker cycle of day and night created are that the people who surviving in the cannibal beach can't sleep well and it would be extremely cold. Moreover, there wouldn't be enough of sunlight for the plants to grow, which means that there wouldn't be a lot of food to survive.

Journal Entry #4 Ulysses - In Chap. 9,The Wandering Rocks, Ulysses has to decide what to do for himself. All of the advice that he has been given turns out to be useless. What does he decide to do? Have you ever been in a situation that required you to make an important decision on you own? How did you decide what to do? In chapter 9 "Wandering Rocks," Ulysses ignores and doesn't care about the advices all the ghosts have gave them. The next thing he does is to sail right away to his sweet home Ithaca even though he knows the perils that are waiting for his crew and him. Moreover, he thought that the all the advices that the ghosts gave were lies and made-up stories just to scare him. No, I've never in this situation before.

Ulysses has gone through much physical and mental hardship. Through all of this he has been determined to return to Itaka. What people and/or places in your life would you be willing to ﬁght as hard as Ulysses to get to/see. Explain your answer. I would be willing to fight as hard as Ulysses to see my brother and to get to California, San Francisco, Palo Alto. The reason that I would want to see my brother is because he had been generous and nice with me and made me enjoy my life. Moreover, although I don't remember my occupation in the house of Palo Alto in California, I would want to go and visit the house that I've stayed until I was 4 years old and try to remember the events that happened there that might please me.

Father Quinel reveals three things in chapter 8. What are they? What does he promise to reveal later? Father Quinel reveals three main things in Chapter8 which are that Lord Furnival has returned from the war but is injured which can mean he could die, Asta's son is actually Crispin and was baptized in secret, and his mother could read and write. Father Quinel also promised that he would reveal everything he knows when Crispin comes to Goodwife Peregrine's house at night.

Literary Terms

Character - person or animal who takes role in the story (classified as two kinds) Flat - mono-perspective Round - poly-perspective

Conflict - struggle between opposing forces Internal - conflict between the character and himself External - conflict between the character and another character

Foreshadow - clues to predict what will happen in the future

Mood - created to the readers by the author

Protagonist - mainly or most of the times, the main character

Antagonist - opposer of the protagonists

Setting - time and place of the action in the novel

Symbol - something that represents another object

Theme - idea or moral the author wants to share with the reader

Literary Terms - Chapter 10 Character - Crispin, Cerdic, Steward (John Aycliffe), and civilians

Conflict - Cerdic lead Crispin into a trap making Crispin go to the west where the steward was waiting for Crispin. (external)

Foreshadow - "I had been led into a trap" in page 52 foreshadows that Crispin is obviously in danger because of the civilians trying to kill Crispin, who is claimed as the wolf head meaning treated as an animal.

Mood - Frustrating

Protagonist - Crispin

Antagonist - Cerdic, Steward (John Aycliffe), and civilians

Setting - Manor House (Lord Furnival's dwelling place)

Symbol - Shimmering glint of a sword

Theme - Think and match up all the clues if it is confusing to do something

Literary Terms - Chapter 11 & 12 Character - Crispin, Father Quinel, John Aycliffe, and civilians

Conflict - Civilians try to kill Crispin because there is a prize for killing him which is 20 shillings.

Foreshadow - ?

Mood - depressing

Protagonist - Father Quinel & Crispin

Antagonist - Steward, civilians

Setting - many settings : Manor house, end of southern Stromford, and a road.

Symbol - owl (devil's bird)

Theme - Don't think to simply

Crispin encounters two dead men shortly after fleeing the village. How does each affect him? Crispin encounters one dead man after running away from the civilians who wanted to kill him, who is Father Quinel. Father Quinel was the only person and priest Crispin could trust, but now he is dead. Because of Father Quinel's death, he doesn't doubt that Father Quinel's death was related to his mother.

Writing strategies and resources

Personal spelling and vocabulary Ulysses Vocabulary 6 & 7 worksheet

Grammar and usage

Works in progress

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 * Homework for March 5, 2010. Due March, 8, 2010. Read Chapter 53 and 54. Choose any of the three of the literary elements we have studied to analyze each chapter.****Example: Chapter 53 Setting, Characters and climax**
 * Chapter 54 motivation, figurative language and symbol.**

Chapter 53 (Characters, conflict, symbol)

Characters - Crispin, guide, John Ball, John's men

Conflict - Crispin is worried about Bear and tries to rescue him, but doesn't know how to get in. Therefore he goes to John Ball to get help guided by a man. In the room they John, Crispin, and John's men discuss what they should do.

Symbol - Penny is a symbol in chapter 53. This penny symbolizes trade and help to Crispin because when he asked his guide where to go, he didn't answer at first, but answered when Crispin said that he would give him couple of pennies.

Chapter 54 (Theme, setting, mood)

Theme - Everything has a consequence

Setting - Medieval times, Great Wexly

Mood - Exhausted