DUE TUE 2/27 – Iliad Assignment

DUE TUE 2/27 – Iliad Assignment

Read Book 9 - “The Embassy to Achilles” pp. 251-266 lines 1-522

You should answer these on your blog AND print them out and add them to your Iliad notes. If you don’t have a three-hole punch at home you can use the one at school. I would like to emphasize once again the importance of keeping your notes in one place – your binders. If you have notes scattered in your binder, your blog, and in a random notebook, they will be of no use to you when it comes time to prep for debate or write an essay. The same holds true if you don’t label your notes with the book number, page number, and line numbers etc…

1. Write a question. It can be an interpretive question that you have an opinion on or something about the text that you don't understand. You do not need to write the answer.

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2. What was your opinion of Agamemnon before reading this section? Does your opinion of him change after reading it? Why or why not? Aone paragraph reply is fine, minimum of 6 solid setneces, but you are encouraged to write more.

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3. At various points in the text some characters attempt to persuade other characters to take a course of action. Examples of characters using persuasion include Nestor, Odysseus, and Ajax. Make a list of the persuasive strategy used by these characters, following this format:

Who is speaking?

What does that person say and to whom does he say it?

What persuasive strategy is it?

Why is it an example of that strategy?

Do this at least three times with different examples.

Remember the persuasive strategies include:

1. Appeal to reason (logic - does it “make sense” to do what the speaker says)

2. Appeal to emotion (does it try to make you happy, sad, angry etc… in an attempt to get you to act or think a certain way)

3. Appeal to ethics (right and wrong, moral principals - does it get you to think that a particular thought is morally right or wrong to get you to act or think a certain way)