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Constanze's Reading Journal = Reading Questions for Assignment 1 =

=== One of the important skills we are working on is asking quality questions. Above is Bloom's Taxonomy of questions. Questions of the type near the top of the triangle use are more complex and those are the kinds of questions we want to be asking. ===

=== Sometime before class on the day the reading assignment is due, I'd like you to post your quality questions below. Write your name first, then a dash, then your questions. We will be looking at them in class together. ===

POST A QUESTION HERE ABOUT YOUR READING IN PART ONE. I WILL GIVE AN EXAMPLE BELOW:
Webb-- I wonder what the purpose of the invocation was? What did the poet hope to accomplish by that?

Constanze-- I wonder if odysseus did not reach his home earlier because of the prayer the Cyclops prayed to Poseidon. Ms. Webb-- I think this is a really good question. Did the gods really intervene? Or did the people just believe they intervened? And does it make a difference?

Lucas-- I wonder where Homer got the idea of a Cyclops? Ms. Webb-- another good question. We talked about this a little in class. Do you think it came totally from his imagaination or was it based on some misunderstanding of some old story?

Nicolas-- I wonder where Polyphemus got all his sheep from Ms. Webb-- I wonder if this is the kind of questions that contributes to our understanding of the text? I'd love to hear you make the connection.

Sascha-- I wonder how Odysseus became so smart. Ms. Webb-- Really good question. What do you think? Do you have an hypothesis? Let's hear your ideas? And is he a particular kind of smart"

Juraj--I wonder why Odysseus cant avoid having Poseidon hate him........and I wonder why the crew doesn't start rioting by the way Odysseus treats the crew!!!!!!! Ms. Webb- Wow, great questions. If Odysseus is so smart, why doesn't he act friendly with Posieidon? Actually, in the next part, the crew does refuse to listen to Odysseus and they all came to a sticky end?

Ms. Webb. I'm noticing some very good participation here. I also see some of us still need to get to work. Finish your quesions about Part One here and I'll start anohter page for Part 2 questions.

Charlotte--I wo nder why his son, Telemachus isn't coming for help on Odyseeus journey...? Arne't they concerned? He could take a boat, get some men and start to search?! Ms. Webb: Wow, this is a good question. What ideas do you have about a possible answer? Remind me that we need to discuss this in class.