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Current Assignment *Class Forum* Class Roster Assignment Schedule Study Guide Questions: guidelines Guidelines for doing reading assignments Papers Relevant Links Required Texts: T.T.S. Bookstore Additional Help for Parents of Great Books Students: Writing Assessment Services (mention your involvement in T.T.S. when you contact WAS) Study Guide Questions and Class Summary To be done for each week's assignment: After each week's class session, post your answers to the study questions for that class along with a short summary of the class session on the class forum. You should do this by the end of the day after class. (You should have the study questions done before class, but you may change your answers after class if you need to before you post them.) The study questions should be answered in complete sentences. The class summary should be one paragraph, about 150 words, and should be a brief discussion of points you found particularly interesting or intriguing, were struck by or disagreed with, or thought were the most important part of the discussion that day. If you miss a class session, you should still post your study question answers, but you may summarize the reading instead of the class discussion. Make sure your name is on your summary/study questions. If you are the first to post, put "Week 1" etc. in the subject line. If you are not the first, read the first post, then hit "respond" and post your material. Assignments 1. Week of Aug. 27 Iliad, "The Story of the Fall of Troy" (Pages 12-13); read Book 1 (Pages 59-75) Study Questions 2. Week of Sept. 3 Iliad, Books 2-5 Study Questions Map for discussion Bronze Age sites and tours 3. Week of Sept. 10 Iliad, Books 6-10 Study Questions 4. Week of Sept. 17 Iliad, Books 11-15 Study Questions Picture of a Homeric ship 5. Week of Sept. 24 Iliad, Books 16-19 Study Questions Diagram of Shield of Achilleus 1 and 2 Vase painting of Shield of Achilleus 6. Week of Oct. 1 Iliad, Books 20-24 Study Questions The Fall of Troy, by Quintus Smyrnaeus 7. Week of Oct. 8 Odyssey, Books 1-8 Study Questions Oct. 15 - 19 Autumn Break -- No Tutorials 8. Week of Oct. 22 Odyssey, Books 9-16 Study Questions *Paper 1 due* Maps of Odysseus's Wanderings: Map 1   Map 2   (key to Map 2)   Map 3 9. Week of Oct. 29 Odyssey, Books 17-24 Study Questions 10. Week of Nov. 5 Aeschylus, Oresteia: Agamemnon, Libation-Bearers, Eumenides Study Questions Classical Age sites and tours *Paper 2 due* 11. Week of Nov. 12 Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone Study Questions Nov. 21 - 23 Thanksgiving Week -- No Tutorials 12. Week of Nov. 26 Herodotus bks I-II.64 Herodotus online Study Questions 13. Week of Dec. 3 Herodotus bks II.65-III (all) Study Questions *Paper 3 due* 14. Week of Dec. 10 Herodotus bks IV-V Study Questions 15. Week of Dec. 17 Herodotus bks VI-VII Study Questions Dec. 21 - Jan. 11 Christmas & New Year's -- No Tutorials 16. Week of Jan. 14 Herodotus bks VIII-IX Study Questions 17. Week of Jan. 21 Plutarch: Theseus, Solon, Themistocles, Aristides Study Questions *Paper 4 Due Friday* 18. Week of Jan. 28 Thucydides 1-2 Study Questions Thucydides online 19. Week of Feb. 4 Thucydides 3-4 Study Questions 20. Week of Feb. 11 Thucydides 5-6 Study Questions Feb. 18 - 22 Mid-Winter Break -- No Tutorials 21. Week of Feb. 25 Thucydides 7-8 Study Questions 22. Week of Mar. 3 Plutarch: Pericles, Alcibiades, Nicias  Study Questions 23. Week of Mar. 10 Plato: Euthyphro, Apology Apology online (lacks section numbering) Study Questions 24. Week of Mar. 17 Plato: Republic, Chapters 1-5, Pages. 3-132 (327a-427c) Republic online Another online version (lacks section numbering) Study Questions Mar. 24 - 28 Easter / Spring Break -- No Tutorials 25. Week of Mar. 31 Plato: Republic, Chapters 6-9, Pages. 133-249 (427d-521b) Study Questions *Paper 5 Due* 26. Week of Apr. 7 Plato: Republic, Chapters 10-14, Pages. 250-379 (521c-621d) Study Questions 27. Week of Apr. 14 Aristotle: Ethics I-II  Study Questions; Aristotle: Poetics Study Questions 28. Week of Apr. 21 Aristotle: Ethics III; IV 2-3; V 1-7 Study Questions *Paper 6 due* 29. Week of Apr. 28 Aristotle: Ethics VI; VII 1-3, 11-14 Study Questions 30. Week of May 5 Aristotle: Ethics VIII-X Study Questions *Paper 7 Due Friday* 31. Week of May 14 Aristotle: Poetics Study Questions *Paper 7 Due Friday* Papers See ETS's Paper Guides page for useful help in doing papers. While Talisker's Great Books paper topics may not necessarily be the same, the principles will often be useful. Paper 1: Homer, Iliad. Choose one virtue: courage, loyalty, love, nobility, compassion, honesty, etc.  Then choose one character in the Iliad whom you think best illustrates that virtue, and explain why, drawing from at least two different passages or episodes in the Iliad where that character is involved. 500-800 words. Paper 2: Homer, Odyssey. For this paper, follow instructions for ETS paper number 2. 500-800 words. Paper 3: Sophocles, Antigone. For this paper, follow instructions for ETS paper number 3. (OR: write a persuasive paper following those instructions but creating your own topic from the first two Oedipus plays. It does not have to be "who was right...," just a persuasive paper.) Paper 4: Herodotus, Histories. Choose one of the three critical battles of the Persian Wars--Marathon, Thermopylae, or Salamis Bay--and condense Herodotus's narrative of it into your own 500-800 word narrative. Follow instructions for ETS paper number 1. Paper 5: Plutarch, Lives.For this paper, follow instructions for ETS paper number 6. You may use any of the lives we've read in class this year. 500-800 words. Paper 6: Plato: Republic. Summarize the arguments in one Book of the Republic, or write on a topic of your own choosing related to the Republic (check with Mr. Vance first). 500-800 words. Paper 7: Overview of Greek Literature. We have read eight ancient Greek authors in four categories this year: epic, tragedy, history, and philosophy. For this paper, look back over the Books we've read and consider the major themes we saw in each author. Choose one major theme that you see in all four categories: the value of courage in battle, love of family, piety to the gods, or duty to your fellow soldiers or to your state or to your family; or the evil of pride, arrogance, or cowardice, or any other virtue upheld (or vice attacked). Then choose one Book from each category and explain how each of the four Books you chose illustrate that theme. Clearly, tragedy will convey the theme of piety, for example, in a different way than philosophy. What characters or episodes or teachings illustrate your theme in each Book? In other words, how is that theme manifested in each Book? 750-1000 words. Evaluation procedure No grades will be assigned for either the papers or for the tutorial as a whole. For those parents who desire it, assistance will be provided in determining a grade for the student's semester work. Papers should be posted on the class forum. It will be helpful to the student to see how others write. However, no grades will be assigned for either the papers or for the tutorial as a whole. Evaluations will be provided upon request at any point. Cindy Marsch, of Writing Assessment Services, offers a special evaluation package for Talisker Tutorial Great Books students. I highly recommend this as a complement to the Great Books tutorial. Relevant Links Maps: The Mediterranean Basin Greece with Region Names Greece with Place Names Ancient World, 6000 BCE Early Greece, 2000-1100 BCE Bronze Age sites and tours Classical Age sites and tours Perseus Project Republic online, and another version

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