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YOUR NAME: _____________________Per.______
UNIT 1: The Odyssey and Personal Journeys
Assignments:
Odyssey Projects: You and your group will demonstrate your knowledge of The Odyssey by doing “Five-minute
Odyssey” projects in class. Projects will be performed in front of the class and your group will be graded on creativity
and accurate knowledge of the text. Make projects suspenseful and interesting. Use a high-powered vocabulary!
Odyssey Notes and Reading: Below are a series of notes you need to take during class lectures and discussion.
In addition, you will complete specific study questions with your group while reading The Odyssey as homework.
Complete the entire packet and use it as a study guide for your final exam. Be sure to look at your homework
calendar for required due dates. You will have a few daily checks on packet questions and the entire packet is DUE:
______________ THE PACKET QUESTIONS START WITH BOOK 5.
FINAL UNIT EXAM ON: ________________
Your Personal Odyssey or Autobiographical Narrative is due: ____________________. Continue
working on other classroom and homework assignments while completing this unit.
Class Notes
Literary Devices/Terminology: (Glossary)
DIRECTIONS: Fill in the following notes as you see the Power Point and movie. Some notes are filled in as you do the required
reading. Use your textbook to get summaries of stops on the journey.
Epic:
Myths:
Archetype:
Homeric Simile:
Epithet:
Hubris:
Misogyny:
Nekuia:
Rhapsodes:
Internal Conflict:
External Conflict:
Situational, dramatic, and verbal irony:
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Cast of Characters: Some of the characters are listed on pages 647-648 in your textbook and many more are listed on your
separate handout. You are responsible for knowing all of the main characters, gods, goddesses, and monsters of The Odyssey.
Universal Themes: (Use the Power Point show for notes.)
1. Life is a ____________.
2. Life brings many ______________ and __________.
3. Life will take us on many _____________________ to many __________________.
4. There is no place like ________________.
5. You must look within yourself to find __________________.
6. Only through _______________________ can you really understand life.
7. ____________________ will always prevail.
8. Our ___________________ will be met with __________________.
9. Exploring your internal and external self will help you achieve ____________ and _____________.
10. The most important qualities to possess are: ____________ and ____________.
11. A civilized human always shows ___________________ first.
12. The most important quality in a friend is: __________________.
13. A true marriage is based on absolute ____________________.
14. The power of the brain or _____________ will always overpower physical ____________.
15. All humans must avoid the ______________ of _________________.
16. Man is always controlled by a higher __________________.
17. No man can live forever; every man must realize his own _______________________.
18. Man must overcoming hubris or ___________________ to achieve greatness and contentment.
As you read, provide two specific examples with page numbers from the text where these themes are illuminated:
1.PAGE, LINE, AND THEME:
2. PAGE, LINE, AND THEME:
Settings and Encounters: (TIMELINE)
Directions: Remember this epic narrative poem is actually told as a flashback. It begins with Homer
(approx. 800 BC) asking the Muses to inspire him to tell an interesting story to his audience. Homer goes
back to 1200 BC during a time when a Trojan War hero, Odysseus, is trying to get back to his kingdom in
Ithaca. Odysseus is continually thwarted by Poseidon and spends 10 years journeying home. Homer
begins his epic near the end of the journey. Odysseus is a captive of the goddess, Kalypso as the story
begins. Athena, Goddess of War and Wisdom, pleads to her father Zeus to free Odysseus and send him
home. When Zeus agrees to help Odysseus and sends his messenger, Hermes to order Kalypso to release
Odysseus, Athena visits Ithaca to prepare Telemachus, son of Odysseus, for his father’s return. After his
release from Kalypso, Odysseus floats ashore on the island of Scheria, home to the Phaecians, under the
rule of King Alcinous (Plot sequence #15). Odysseus keeps his identity a secret for a little while but
encouraged by King Alcinous, Odysseus reveals his identity and shares tales of his journey. This begins
the plot sequence 1-13 as Odysseus flashes back to his odyssey. However, for your understanding of the
complete odyssey or journey, each of the stops is put in order from the time Odysseus leaves Ithaca for
the Trojan War until he returns home from his odyssey. For each stop on the journey, Odysseus
encounters gods, goddesses, monsters, and obstacles. Fill in a 4-5 sentence plot summary of each stop.
Who does he meet, what happens, and why is it important?
1. Ithaca, Greece:
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2. Troy (Ilion/modern-day Turkey) and the Trojan War:
3. Ismaros: home to the Circones
4. Land of the Lotus Eaters
5. Island of the Cyclops, Polyphemus
6. Island of Aeolia, home of the Wind God, Aeolus
7. Land of the Laestrygonians
8. Aeaea: home to Circe
9. Land of the Dead (Erebus) to meet Teiresias
10. Back to Aeaea and Circe (burial ritual)
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11. Treacherous waters and the Sirens
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12. Ocean whirlpool: Charybdis and the Cave of Scylla (Strait of Messina)
13. Island of Thrinakia: home for the cattle of Helios, the Sun God
14. Island of the goddess, Kalypso (Story starts here, moves to #15 then Odysseus
tells the story in a flashback of plot sequence 1-13)
15. Phaeacia (Island of Scheria): home to King Alcinous & Nausikaa
16. King Alcinous sends Odysseus back home to Ithaca:
17. Odysseus must win back his kingdom:
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