HW Mr. Padilla 8.2.17

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

Option 3: Read the text below and answer the questions that follow. Write complete sentences. Use examples from the reading to support your points.

Collections: BOOK 21: The Test of the Bow

In Books 18-20, Odysseus observes the suitors and finds that two in  particular, Antinous and Eurymachus, are rude and demanding.  Penelope asks Odysseus the beggar for news of her husband. He says he has heard that Odysseus is on his way home. Penelope, however, has given up hope for Odysseus' return. She proposes an archery contest to the suitors, with marriage to her as the prize. She enters the storeroom and takes down the heavy bow that Odysseus left behind.

Now the queen reached the storeroom door and halted. Here was an oaken sill, cut long ago and sanded clean and bedded true. Foursquare the doorjambs and the shining doors were set by the careful builder. Penelope untied the strap around the curving handle, pushed her hook into the slit, aimed at the bolts inside and shot them back.

1.       Who is demanding?

2.       What does the beggar say about Odysseus?

3.       What does Penelope propose?

4.       Why did Penelope go to the storeroom door?

5.       Why did Penelope untie the strap around the curving handle of the bow?

6. Explain how her actions help Odysseus or not.

Option 2: Read the text below and answer the questions that follow. Write complete sentences. Use examples from the reading to support your points.

Collections: BOOK 21: The Test of the Bow

… Odysseus observes the suitors and finds that two … Antinous and Eurymachus, are rude and demanding. 

1.     Who is demanding?

Penelope asks Odysseus the beggar for news of her husband. He says he has heard that Odysseus is on his way home.

2.     What does the beggar say about Odysseus?

Penelope… has given up hope for Odysseus' return. She proposes an archery contest to the suitors, with marriage to her as the prize…

3.     What does Penelope propose?

Now the queen reached the storeroom door … Here was an oaken sill (a bow)

4.     Why did Penelope go to the storeroom door?

 (the bow) cut long ago and sanded clean…. Penelope untied the strap around the … handle…

5.     What did Penelope do to the bow?

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

 Book 17: The Beggar at the Manor

Collections: BOOK 21: The Test of the Bow

… Odysseus observes the suitors and finds that two … Antinous and Eurymachus, are rude and demanding. 

1.Who is demanding?

Penelope asks Odysseus the beggar for news of her husband. He says he has heard that Odysseus is on his way home.

2. What does the beggar say about Odysseus?

Penelope… has given up hope for Odysseus' return. She proposes an archery contest to the suitors, with marriage to her as the prize…

3.       What does Penelope propose?

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