Books 3 and 4

Book 3 - Book 3 begins in Pylos, with Telemachus and Athena witness a religious sacrifice where dozens of bulls are sacrificed for Poseidon. Telemachus is scared to speak in front of everyone, but Athena makes it for he's not so nervous anymore; and he asks the king, Nestor, if he's seen his father at all. The king says he has not and that after there a fight between the two Greek brothers who lead the expedition after Troy, Agamemnom and Menelaus. Menelaus left for Greece, while Agamemnom and Odysseus stayed to sacrifice, and the king hasn't seen him since. We then hear about when Agamemnom returned to Greece, he found that his wife had married someone else, and that her new husband killed him. Afterward, Agamemnom's son, Orestes, killed both of them.

Book 4 - Book 4 starts with Menelaus and Helen, the king and queen and Sparta, celebrating their children's weddings. They greet Pisistratus and Telemachus, who they recognize as Odysseus's son due to his family resemblance. As they eat, the king recounts the story of Odysseus's accomplishments; the Trojan Horse and dressing as a beggar. Afterwards, he tells of his own accomplishes and even a little about Ajax. Afterward, it's revealed that Odysseus is still alive and stuck on Calypso Island. Telemachus and Pisistratus head back to Ithica right away to start heading the island. Meanwhile, the suitors hear of his plan and hatch an idea to ambush when he returns; which Medon reports to Penelope. Athena sends a phantom of Penelope's sister to assure her the gods will keep her son safe.

Vocab

Prudence - regard for one's own interests - noun
Baleful - obsolete - adj
Libation - a pouring out of wine or other liquid in honor of something - noun
Precedence - the right to precede in rank - noun
Glutton - a person who eats and drinks excessively - noun
Harangue - intense verbal attack - noun
Rapine - plunder - noun
Scion - a descendant - noun
Insidious - stealthily treacherous - adj
Chastise - to criticize severely - verb
Succumb - yield - verb
Auspicious - promising success - adj
Lucid - easily understood - adj
Audacity - boldness or daring - noun

George's prudence lead him to trigger the booby trap for the sack of coins, dooming his friends by activating the spike trap behind him.
The musket is obsolete in terms of fire rate when compared to an assault rifle.
As Bob sat on top of the shrine clueless, he watched the libation of blood in his honor from the 60 tribesmen below
Joe earned his precedence when he single handedly liberated all of North Korea.
Micah, who is a glutton, snuck into the cheese factory and ate all of the cheese overnight.
The harangue that Jack received for knocking over his grandmother's urn was one that made him re-think all of his life choices.
The 56th anniversary of the Rapine of City Wok celebrates the dreadful day the Mongols plundered the restaurant.
The scion of Godzilla took it upon himself to take up his grandfather's legacy by destroying Tokyo.

Characters and All That Fun Stuff

Characters: 
Odysseus, Telemachos, Penelope, Athena, Poseidon, Mentes,Calypso, Mentor, Nestor, Menelaus, Helen, Agamemnon, Orestes, Aegisthus, Clytemnestra, Ajax, Zeus, Antinous, Eurymachus, Aegypitus,
Laertes, Icarius, Hailtherses, Eurycleia, Pisistratus

Literary Elements:
Allusions -Trojan Horse, Helen

Symbols - Birds, Food

Motifs - Story-telling, Disguises, Seducing

Major Theme - Hospitality

books 1 & 2

One: This book  takes place after the Trojan war and Odysseus hasn't been home in 20 years. He has  been unable to make it home because Poseidon has a thing against him for killing his son, the cyclops. While Poseidon is against him, the other gods are all rooting for him. At a dinner of the gods, Athena asks Zeus if they could spare Odysseus and give him a way home. While the gods are eating, Odysseus has been stuck on an island with the witch Kalypso for the past few years. Athena goes to Odysseus's house disguised as Mentes and notices that his house is full of lazy suitors eating all of his food. Telemachos, Odysseus's son, says the situation would be better if his father was here, and then Athena gives him a pep talk about his father and gives him a vision of his father before leaving.

Two: Book two starts with Telemachos rounding the suiitors up for a meeting, the first meeting since Odysseus left. At the meeting, Telemachos says he's tired of the suitors eating his food and wine, and trying to get his mom. Antinoos blames Penelope, as she is delaying it when it's her duty to get a king. She said she wouldn't marry until she finished weaving a shroud for Odysseus's father, who isn't dead, but a maid blabbed that she secretly unravels her process at night. Telemachos is told to either send Penelope back to Icarus or made to choose a suitor. Telemachos doesn't want to do either and as a result, Zeus sends two eagles to attack the town's people. Giving up on arguing, Telemachos decides to sail to Pylos to hear anything about his father. That night, he prays to the god that visits him, and Athena visits him as Mentor, telling him that she will find a boat and supplies for him. Him and a group of trusted men leave right away.

Thesis and Order

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Notes of Persuasion

Ways to Talk

Logo - appeal to logic : back up your argument
Etho - appeal to self : ethics : speaker's credibility
Pathos - emotional appeal

What makes a good argument?

• Self - Interest
• Connection to the subject
• If you're not passionate, audience won't be
• Self-Interest = Ethos
• Expert Testimony
• Interviews, quotes, documentation with experts that back up your opinion
• State how the quotes back up your opinion
• Valuable for creditability
• Expert Testimony = Ethos & Logos
• Quality of Reasoning
• Offer facts, statistics, or supporting details
• Research driven
• More likely to be accepted when backed by facts or supporting details
• Without facts it's an opinion and won't go far
• Quality of Reasoning = Logos
• Facts include: Dates, events, things that can be refuted
• Flaws in Opposing Arguments
• Point out flaws in your opposistion
• provide facts that discuss the flaws or faults
• Do it ethically
• Just as important to secede an argument you can't refute
• Know both sides
• FOA = Logos and Ethos
• What about your audience?
• Appeal to audience's self-interest
• Talk about benefits and harms
• Benefits are good things that happen if the audience accepts your plan/position
• Harms are bad things that happen if the audience doesn't accept your plan/position

DON'T USE

• Irrational evidence 
• Generalities
• Arguments that make little sense
• Data that doesn't back up your position
• Mud slinging
• Emotional persuasives
• An appeal to feelings, passions, and prejudices instead of logic
• Propoganda
• Transfer of emotions or ideas from sources that have little to nothing to do with your topic
• Quotes from people who aren't professionals in the field of your argument
• Quote famous people because they're famous
• Oversimplification

Macbeth Vocab 2.0

1) Surmised - a matter of conjecture - noun

2) Bounteous - generous - adj

3) Consort - spouse - noun

4) Corporal - physical - adj

5) Prate - babble - verb

6) Dauntless - fearless - adj

7) Chastise - discipline - verb

8) Chalice - goblet - noun

9) Undivulged - reveal - verb

10) Surfeit - excess - noun