The Odyssey - Character Motivation (2)

The Odyssey - Character Motivation (2)

Objective

Analyze excerpts of the Odyssey in order to infer characteristics and character motivation by completing a multiple and written response PRACTICE activity in Quizizz with 70% accuracy.

Making Inferences

Making Inferences About Characters

Making an Inference about Characterization

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Text detail + ________________________= Inference

PRACTICE

Multiple Choice

We ran to fetch our hunting bows and long-shanked lances from the ships, and in three companies we took our shots. Heaven gave us a plenty

The Odyssey

Homer

What inference can we make about the hunters?

• They are inexperienced hunters.

• They have few weapons.

• They are experienced hunters.

Multiple Choice

We ran to fetch our hunting bows and long-shanked lances from the ships, and in three companies we took our shots. Heaven gave us game a plenty

The Odyssey,

Homer

What inference can be made about the characters' beliefs?

• They are not religious and do not believe in gods.

• They believe that the gods helped them shoot game.

• They believe that the gods have cursed them.

Multiple Choice

In the next land we found were Cyclopes,

giants, louts, without a law to bless them.

In ignorance leaving the fruitage of the earth in mystery

to the immortal gods, they neither plow

nor sow by hand, nor till the ground, though grain—

wild wheat and barley—grows untended, and

wine-grapes, in clusters, ripen in heaven's rain.

Cyclopes have no muster and no meeting,

no consultation or old tribal ways,

but each one dwells in his own mountain cave

dealing out rough justice to wife and child,

indifferent to what the others do.

What inference can be made about the Cyclopes?

• They are hospitable and welcoming to visitors of their homes.

• They are uncivilized creatures who are potentially dangerous.

• dangerous.

  They will band together against common enemies, if needed.

Multiple Choice

O Cyclops! Would you feast on my companions?

Puny, am I, in a Caveman's hands?

How do you like the beating that we gave you,

you damned cannibal? Eater of guests

under your roof! Zeus and the gods have paid you!'

According to this excerpt, Odysseus

• is prideful and overly confident.

• is fearful of the Cyclops.

• confident.

  has been weakened by the Cyclops.

Character Motivation

Multiple Choice

What is the motivation?

Chad lifts weights at the gym?

• He wants to avoid being noticed

• He wants to be stronger

Multiple Choice

What is the motivation?

Amit invites a new student to sit with him at lunch.

• He wants to help others fit in.

• He wants to make others feel better.

Multiple Choice

Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.

'Aye

He'll smash our timbers and our heads together!'

I would not heed them in my glorying spirit,

but let my anger flare and yelled:

'Cyclops,

if ever mortal man inquire

how you were put to shame and blinded, tell him

Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye:

Laertes' son, whose home's on Ithaca!'

What motivates Odysseus to reveal his name and put his men in more danger?

• anger and pride

• gratitude and relief

• weakness and fear

Multiple Choice

Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.

'My ship?

Poseidon Lord, who sets the earth a-tremble,

broke it up on the rocks at your land's end.

A wind from seaward served him, drove us there.

We are survivors, these good men and I.'

What motivates Odysseus to tell a lie to the Cyclops?

• Odysseus knows that Poseidon is the Cyclops’ father.

• Odysseus is afraid the Cyclops will steal their ship.

• Odysseus does not want to reveal their only means of escape.

Poll

How would you rate yourself in marking inferences about characters and identifying character motivation?

• I know how to do it well.

• I need more practice.

• I don’t understand it at all.