The Odyssey (Mod 2 FQT2 Lessons 10-18)

Essential Question

What is the significance and power of the hero's journey?

Focusing Question 2

How does The Odyssey exhibit the genre Expectations of the Monomyth?

The Odyssey

The Odyssey is an ancient myth origination in Greece, which was composed by Homer in verse (poetry) and first told by oral storytellers, only being written in Greek many years later.

How is this like Ramayana: Divine Loophole?

The Odyssey

This version of the story is a new retelling by Gillian Cross, who uses prose instead of poetry, and the illustrations are by Neil Packer.

The Odyssey

Read Page 9: How does Cross establish context for the story on page 9?

Vocabulary

​Word	​Meaning	​Synonyms/Examples
​Odyssey (n.)	​An extended journey or quest	​a journey, a trek

Character & Setting

In your binder create a Character and Setting Journal.

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The Odyssey

Read "The War": Pgs. 10-15
As we read pay attention to what intrigues you about the words and illustrations, and what questions you have.

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The Odyssey

Read "Traveling into Disaster": Pgs. 16-25
As we read pay attention to what we learn about the characters and the settings.

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10-A Anticipation Guide

Complete the Anticipation Guide in your Workbook.

Stand if you agree with each statement as I read them.

Think-Pair-Share

Consider what you have read in the first two chapters of The Odyssey. How does this story's setting, characters, and plot so far resemble those of the monomyth?

Open Ended

How does this story's setting, characters, and plot so far resemble those of the monomyth?

Open Ended

Content Framing Question 3-2-1: Identify 3 traits that Odysseus posesses.

Open Ended

Content Framing Question 3-2-1: Identify 2 decisions that Odysseus makes that cast him as the hero archetype.

Open Ended

Content Framing Question 3-2-1: Explain 1 way Cross establishes contet for The Odyssey and helps the reader better understand Odysseus and his situation.

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Focusing Question 2

How does The Odyssey exhibit the genre Expectations of the Monomyth?

The Odyssesy

Read Pages 26-47

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Focusing Question 2

How does The Odyssey exhibit the genre Expectations of the Monomyth?

The Odyssesy

Read Pages 26-47

• What can we infer about Odysseus's view of duty?

• What can we infer about his view of temptation?

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arête

• following duty

• honor

• self-control

• intelligence

​​What concept in Ramayana: Divine Loophole does this remind you of?

The Odyssesy

​Word	​Meaning	​Synonyms/Examples
arête	​Virtue or excellence	​living up to one's full potential; the ideal form

Sequence of Events

11A

• In pairs complete Handout 11A

• You have 10 minutes

Open Ended

TDQ: Which events establish a context for Odysseus's hero's journey? Why do you think the author included these events?

Multiple Choice

TDQ: For the REST of Handout 11A sequence of events, what phase and stage of the hero's journey do they represent?

• Initiation Phase: Tests, Allies and Enemies

• The Departure Phase: The Call to Adventure

• The Return Phase: The Road Back

Open Ended

TDQ: What is important about the LAST event in the sequence?

Open Ended

Exit Ticket: Based on Odysseus's behavior in the first two chapters, do you think Odysseus fits the description of the hero archetype? Briefly explain your thinking in one or two sentences.

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Focusing Question 2

How does The Odyssey exhibit the genre Expectations of the Monomyth?

The Odyssesy

Read Pages 48-73

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Match

At this point in Odysseus's journey, which archetypal characters have been introduced?

• The hero:

• The Shadow:

• The Threshold Guardians:

• The ally:

• The mentor:

Odysseus

Poseidon

the Cyclops, the Laestrygonians, Circe

Aeolus, Circe

Hermes,"giant killer & messenger god

• Odysseus

• Poseidon

• the Cyclops, the Laestrygonians, Circe

• Aeolus, Circe

• Hermes,"giant killer & messenger god

The Odyssesy

​Word	​Meaning	​Synonyms/Examples
hubris (n.)	Arrogant Pride	arrogance
humility (n.)	A modest view of one's self	modesty

Open Ended

Exit Ticket: On page 73, how does Odysseus's response to Circe's news about the Underworld support his development as the hero archetype?

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Focusing Question 2

How does The Odyssey exhibit the genre Expectations of the Monomyth?

The Odyssesy

Read Pages 74-99

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The Odyssesy

Handout 13A: Complete your assigned chapter in pairs.

Open Ended

Quick Write: Why does Odysseus manage to survive while the rest of his men perish? How does this important detail support one of the text's emerging big ideas?

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The Odyssesy

​Word	​Meaning	​Synonyms/Examples
pine (v.)	To long for	ache, yearn

Focusing Question 2

How does The Odyssey exhibit the genre Expectations of the Monomyth?

The Odyssesy

Read Pages 100-119

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The Odyssesy

Handout 14A: Narrative Techniques

Open Ended

TDQ: What important information does the opening narration of "Stranded on Calypso's Island" provide readers (100-102)? Why might the author emphasize that Odysseus "[pines] for his home" (102)?

Open Ended

TDQ: How does Cross use narration and dialogue in the scenes on pages 103-105 and 118-119 to weave in Penelope and Telemachus's story into The Odyssey's larger narrative (bigger story)?

Open Ended

TDQ: Cross transitions next to another setting, this time to Mt. Olympus. How does this brief scene's use of narration and dialogue reveal the gods' relationship with mortals, as well as why Odysseus might need a mentor at this point in the plot?

Open Ended

TDQ: In the scene featuring Poseidon and Odysseus at sea (pgs. 110-116), how does this lengthier scene's use of narration, dialogue, and inner monologue reveal that Odysseus has reached the Ordeal Stage of his hero's journey?

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Focusing Question 2

How does The Odyssey exhibit the genre Expectations of the Monomyth?

The Odyssesy

Read Pages 120-137

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The Odyssesy

• Handout 15A: Plot Analysis

• Review Event 1 Together
  Each Group will complete analysis for their assigned event and record their work on charts for a Gallery Walk.

Gallery Walk

As you walk around and view the charts of other groups, record the information in your Handout on the appropriate event.

Ramayana Narrative Scene- Day 4

• Today you will write the 4th (or 5th) Paragraph of your narrative scene based on your outline.

• You will focus on Narrative techniques today.

The Odyssesy

​Word	​Meaning	​Synonyms/Examples
fervently (adj.)	Passionately and intently	passionately
ruefully (adj.)	Done in a sorrowful manner.	remorsefully
clamored (v.)	To demand loudly.	bellow, shout, yell
loathed (v.)	To hate or be disgusted by.	despise

Focusing Question 2

How does The Odyssey exhibit the genre Expectations of the Monomyth?

The Odyssesy

Read Pages 138-157

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Open Ended

TDQ: How is Odysseus depicted in "Odysseus the Beggar"? How has Odysseus grown over the course of the story?

Open Ended

TDQ: How is Telemachus's journey similar to Odysseus's? What lesson must Telemachus learn in order to be successful on his quest?

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Ramayana Narrative Scene- Day 5

• Today you will write the final Paragraph of your narrative scene based on your outline.

• You will not turn this in yet.

Focusing Question 2

How does The Odyssey exhibit the genre Expectations of the Monomyth?

The Odyssesy

Read Pages 158-171

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Open Ended

TDQ: What Big Ideas are explored in "A Husband for Penelope" on page 158-166? How does the text support these ideas?

Open Ended

TDQ: What is the final test, featured on pages 167-169, that Odysseus must pass on his journey?

Open Ended

TDQ: What big ideas are emphasized in this final scene of the Return Phase? How does the text support these ideas?

Open Ended

TDQ: How does this last test in Odysseus's (and Penelope's) journey-and the many other tests that come before it-help convey The Odyssey's them about aretḗ? How does the text support this theme?

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Handout 10A

Only after reading a whole text can a reader know which big ideas might have been developed enough to become themes.

Handout 10A

Which of the statements on Handout 10A captures one of the story's big ideas, and which of these statements advances one of the story's themes?

Handout 13A

Reread the last column that covers the big ideas advanced by Odysseus's responses to tests.

Handout 13A

Which of Handout 13A's big ideas has emerged as a theme of the story? How might you phrase this theme as a statement?

Open Ended

What is one of the theme's of The Odyssey?

Focusing Question 2

How does The Odyssey exhibit the genre Expectations of the Monomyth?

The Odyssesy

Read Pages 172-175

Narrative Scene: Peer Review and Final Draft

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