HW Mr. Padilla 8.8.17

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

Penelope addresses the suitors:

Here is my lord Odysseus' hunting bow. Bend and string it if you can. Who sends an arrow through iron axe-helve sockets, twelve in line? I join my life with his, and leave this place, my home, my rich and beautiful bridal house, forever to be remembered, though I dream it only.". . . Despite heating and greasing the bow, the lesser suitors prove unable to string it. The most able suitors, Antinous and Eurymachus, hold  off.

1.       What does she tell the suitors?

2.       What task must the suitors complete?

3.       What reward will the winner get?

4.       How does she feel about her home?

5.       How did the suitors do with the task?

6.  Why do you think Penelope gave the suitors such a hard task?

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

Penelope addresses the suitors:

Here is my lord Odysseus' hunting bow. Bend and string it if you can.

1.     What does she tell the suitors?

 Who sends an arrow through iron axe-helve sockets, twelve in line?

2.     What task must the suitors complete?

 I join my life with his, and leave this place, my home, my rich and beautiful bridal house, forever to be remembered, though I dream it only.

3.     What reward will the winner get?

4.     How does she feel about her home?

 . . Despite heating and greasing the bow, the lesser suitors prove unable to string it.

5.     How did the suitors do with the task?

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

Collections: BOOK 21: The Test of the Bow

Penelope addresses the suitors:

Here is my lord Odysseus' hunting bow. Bend and string it if you can.

1.       What does she tell the suitors?

 Who sends an arrow through iron axe-helve sockets, twelve in line?

2.       What task must the suitors complete?

 I join my life with his, and leave this place, my home, my rich and beautiful bridal house….

3.       What reward will the winner get?

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