This is an email exchange that I've had with my daughter about an assignment. On the surface you see that we are looking at Homer's Iliad book 15. Once you look below the surface here's the kind of adventure we have in our home school.
1) The assignment, originally due on Friday evening, was put off over the weekend to allow for some other activities which were coming up. We're trying to be flexible yet move along in our work.
2) Sometimes, especially with oral epic, it's nice to listen to a recording of what you are reading.
3) Sometimes when you pick up a public domain text off Project Gutenberg it's easy to misplace it, so the student who needs to find a simile has to retrieve a copy of the text again.
4) Students who use the computers that have been retired from active duty in the household sometimes find they have difficult computing environments. In this case, a fan malfunction is causing unexpected shut-downs with no warning.
5) Assignments that depend on one particular file on one computer that is malfunctioning are extremely frustrating.
6) Confusion in the overall computing environment may ensue, causing the network administrator to reassign a student to a different computer, leave his own comfortable environment, and try to forward emails from a computer really quickly before it shuts down again.
Always something exciting aboard the Marmoset!
Here it is.
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Hannah Spotts <knittngirl@gmail.com> wrote:
My computer deleted it. I can't find it anywhere.On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Dave Spotts <capnsalty@gmail.com> wrote:
Your completed assignment? Still waiting.On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Hannah Spotts <knittngirl@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks.--On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Dave Spotts <capnsalty@gmail.com> wrote:
Here's another copy of the Iliad.On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Dave Spotts <capnsalty@gmail.com> wrote:
Hannah,Today we will listen to and read over Iliad book 15. Once that is done, I want you to find one of the extended Homeric similes. You'll treat it as a "fable" like you did when you were working on the Progymnasmata. Read over this page http://rhetoric.byu.edu/pedagogy/Progymnasmata/Fable.htm for a refresher on how to deal with the assignment. You'll retell it in a sort of bare-bones form for me, then you will retell it, adding dialog. Write well, as you did for Mrs. Marsch. Do all your editing, proofing, and all that, and get it in to me as a response to this email (in the body or as an attachment) prior to 5:00 p.m. Friday the 28th. Make sure you file this email as well.
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Dave Spotts
blogging at http://capnsaltyslongvoyage.blogspot.com and http://alex-kirk.blogspot.com
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Dave Spotts
blogging at http://capnsaltyslongvoyage.blogspot.com and http://alex-kirk.blogspot.com
If Facebook, Twitter and Myspace all were destroyed simultaneously, 90% of teenagers in the world would either go insane, go into a coma, or die. If you are one of 10% that would be laughing, post this in your signature. *snickers*
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Dave Spotts
blogging at http://capnsaltyslongvoyage.blogspot.com and http://alex-kirk.blogspot.com
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If Facebook, Twitter and Myspace all were destroyed simultaneously, 90% of teenagers in the world would either go insane, go into a coma, or die. If you are one of 10% that would be laughing, post this in your signature. *snickers*
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Dave Spotts
blogging at http://capnsaltyslongvoyage.blogspot.com and http://alex-kirk.blogspot.com
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