Jessica R


   Should high schools require students to read the "classics"?


  1)- I think that high schools should require students to read the "classics" for many reasons some being that it can help build our reading skills. Also many old "classics" have very important meaning that can help us a lot. The "classics" are also very good lables. In the packet it states," I firmly believe that reading "classics" gives one a perspective about what it means to be human that is hard to achieve otherwise". (page 1) This explains that she believes that we should read "classics" because it gives us a perspective about what it means to be human. It also states in the packet,"The act of reading can be one of the most creative, imaginative activities that I have found". (page 1) This explains that she thinks that reading is the most creative thing and that it can help kids. Even "classics"

 Jessica R


                             The Underworld!



1)-   Some values and beliefs that are reflected in Ancient Greek culture towards the underworld are religion. The underworld was basically divided into 4 religions. Fields of Mourning, Tartarus, Asphodel Meadows, and the Elysian Fields.

2)-  Yes I do recognize similarities between the Greek's beliefs toward death and the underworld and to those that are held in the religion because they believed that the gods would take care of them when they died and they would not go to the underworld.

3)-  The journey of the soul is an elaborate process because, now more and ore people are starting to get in the underworld. It can't be simpler because then it would be easy for people to get into the underworld.

4)-  I think the hero needs to visit the underworld because they need to learn what the people are doing in the underworld and maybe somehow use it to their advantage.

   Jessica R

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1) B 4TH level
2) D 1ST level
3) C 2ND level
4) A 3RD level