Today at the beginning of class we kicked off the lesson by watching a quick video. This video, The trolley problem, is used to make us think about what we would do when we’re given the choice to save five people and kill one or vice versa. After we watched the video, we used Kahoot to do a quick poll and see who would do what. As these questions go on they become more complex due to how some factors will start to come into play. Ex: The five men are runaway serial killers, the five people are pregnant women, etc. After we did this poll, we read about 2 Greek mythological monsters, Scylla and Charybdis.
Link to Video:The trolley problem
Scylla
Scylla was a former nymph but was later turned into a hideous monster by Circe due to Circe’s jealousy and envy of the nymph. Circe envied the nymph because CIrce fell in love with the god Phorcys, but Phorcys had fallen in love with Scylla. Afterwards, Scylla gets turned into a “frightful monster with twelve feet and six heads, each with three rows of teeth. Below the waist her body was made up of hideous monsters, like dogs, who barked unceasingly.
Charybdis
Charybdis was also a nymph, a daughter of Poseidon and Gaia. However her life took a turn for the worse when she decided to steal Hercules’s cattle; as punishment Zeus turned Charybdis into a monster in the form of a whirlpool. Charybdis huge amounts of water in and vomits it out three times a day. “She lived in a cave on one side of the Strait of Messina, opposite the monster Scylla, the two of them were a dangerous threat to passing ships.
After this read part of the Odyssey, this part was about Odysseus' trip between the two monsters. Here's a brief summary as Odysseus makes it past the sirens he braces himself for his next challenge; he gives his men a pep talk and prepares himself to take on the monster. Odysseus has to make a choice to either face Charybdis or Scylla; in the end Odysseus chooses Scylla because he can save the majority of his crew.
Afterwards we learned about Allusions and examples of how it can be applied to modern popular films.
Allusions: (N) Is a brief and indirect reference within a literary work to a historical, literary, or biblical character, place or event, which is not explained. There are 4 types of allusions, biblical, classical, lietary, and historical.
Types of Allusions
• Biblical: referring to the Bible or a
religious work
• Classical: referring to Classical Literature
• Literary: referring to another literary work
• Historical: referring to an event in history
Here are some examples:
HW: To find examples of Allusions in modern day shows and movies.
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