HW Mr. Padilla 7.27.17

Homework: Dear parents/ guardians, please assist your child with today’s homework. 

Option 3: Collections: BOOK 12: The Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis

No mortal man could scale (the cliffs) … so much as land there, not with twenty hands and feet, so sheer the cliffs are   as of polished stone… great Odysseus, your master bowman, shooting from the deck, would come short of the cave mouth with his shaft (bow and arrow); but that is the den of Scylla… she is huge and monstrous. God or man, no one could look on her in joy. Her legs  and there are twelve  are like great tentacles, unjointed, and upon her serpent necks are… six heads like nightmares of ferocity, with triple … rows of fangs and deep gullets of black death. Half her length, she sways her heads in air… hunting the sea around …for dolphins, dogfish…. And no ship’s company can claim to have passed her without loss and grief; she takes, from every ship, one man…

1.         Who can’t climb the cliff? Why?

2.         What could Odysseus not do?

3.         Why is there no joy in seeing Scylla? 

4.         How are her legs?

5.         Describe her necks.

6.         How do ships suffer when they pass Scylla’s cave?

Option 2. Collections: The Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis

No mortal man could  (climb the cliffs) … not with twenty hands and feet

1.       Who can’t climb the cliff? Why?

… great Odysseus, …shooting from the deck, would come short of the cave mouth with his shaft (bow and arrow);

2.       What could Odysseus not do?

but that is the den (cave) of Scylla… she is huge and monstrous. God or man, no one could look on her in joy.

3.       Who lives in the cave?

Her legs  and there are twelve  are like great tentacles…

4.       How are her legs?

and upon her serpent necks are… six heads like nightmares of ferocity, with triple … rows of fangs and deep gullets of black death

5.       Describe her necks.

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And no ship’s company … have passed her without loss and grief; she takes, from every ship, one man…

6.       How do ships suffer when they pass Scylla’s cave?

Option 1A: Read the text below and answer the questions that follow. Write complete sentences. Use examples from the reading to support your points.

Collections: The Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis

No mortal man could  (climb the cliffs) … not with twenty hands and feet

1.       Who can’t climb the cliff? Why?

… great Odysseus, …shooting from the deck, would come short of the cave mouth with his shaft (bow and arrow);

2.       What could Odysseus not do?

but that is the den (cave) of Scylla… she is huge and monstrous. God or man, no one could look on her in joy.

3.       Who lives in the cave?`    

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