Odyssey Hero's Journey

King Odysseus is at home in Ithaca with his wife, Penelope, and newborn son, Telemachus.

• Call to Adventure

• Ordinary World

• Test/Allies/Enemies

• Approach

• Road Back

Answer explanation

On your paper, find "ordinary world" and write Odysseus at home in Ithaca with Penelope & Telemachus.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Odysseus goes to Troy to fight in the Trojan War.

• Call to Adventure

• Ordinary World

• Refusal

• Approach

• Road Back

Answer explanation

On your paper, find "Call to Adventure" and write Odysseus goes to fight in the Trojan War.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

He does not want to leave his family and sail to Troy because he knows it will be a long trip.

• Call to Adventure

• Ordinary World

• Refusal

• Approach

• Road Back

Answer explanation

On your paper, find 'Refusal'. Write does not want to leave his family.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Athena, the goddess of wisdom, crafts, and war, is his guide. She wants to help Odysseus, even though she has been instructed not to. She takes pity on him while other gods forsake the hero, continually saves him from death, and gives him guidance.

• Cross the Threshold

• Meeting the Mentor

• Refusal

• Approach

• Road back

Answer explanation

On your paper, find 'Meeting the Mentor', write Athena guides him

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

After the war, the gods became angry with the Greeks due to their prideful ways. A great storm emerged and threw them off course.

• Cross the Threshold

• Ordeal

• Refusal

• Approach

• Road back

Answer explanation

On your paper, find "Cross the Threshold'. write The gods punished Odeyesus for his pride with a storm.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Facing Polyphemus and escaping

• Reward

• Ordeal

• Test and Trials

• Approach

• Road back

Answer explanation

On your paper, find 'Tests and Trials'. He faced Polyphemus and escaped.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Saving his men from Circe

• Reward

• Ordeal

• Tests and Trials

• Approach

• Road Back

Answer explanation

On your paper find, 'Tests and Trials'. write He faced Circe to save his men.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Escaping the Sirens

• Reward

• Ordeal

• Tests and Trials

• Approach

• Road Back

Answer explanation

On your paper find, 'Tests and Trials'. Write He faced the sirens.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

He travels to the underworld, seeking information to guide him home. This quest brings him to the verge of death.

• Reward

• Ordeal

• Tests and Trials

• Approach

• Road Back

Answer explanation

On your paper, find 'Ordeal'. Write, journeys to the underworld, and faces death.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Odysseus nearly makes it home the first time, but his crew opens a bag given to him by Aeolus, the god of the winds. When the bag is opened, it releases a wind that blows them far away from Ithaca.

• Reward

• Ordeal

• Test and Trials

• Approach

• Road back

Answer explanation

On your paper find, "Approach". Write, The crew's mistake of opening the bag of wind leads to a longer journey.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9