Introduction to Narrative Poetry: The Odyssey

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Introduction to Narrative Poetry The Odyssey

• Ms. Woodhouse
• (This power point is a mixture of an online power
  point.)

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Warm Up 100 Word Essay

• You always look out the dark windows and wonder
  if something is out there. One night when you
  look, a small face with bright eyes appears at
  the window. Write about what you do, who/what it
  is, and why they are there.
• Or choose your own.

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SOL Objectives

• Grade 9
• 9.3 read and analyze poetry
• 9.3b identify characteristics of lyric poetry
• 9.3c use literary terms in describing and
  analyzing selections
• 9.3f describe the use of images and sound to
  elicit reader's emotions.
• Grade 10
• (10.5C)read and analyze a variety of poetry.
• (10.5) compare and contrast the use of rhyme,
  rhythm, and sound
• (10.5A) compare and contrast poets use of
  techniques to evoke emotion in the reader.
• (10.5B) distinguish between literal and
  figurative language.
• (10.5D)identify and analyze poetic device and
  technique.
• (10.5E) analyze diction as related to other
  elements of a poem.
• (10. 5F)interpret and paraphrase the meaning of
  selected poems.

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Classroom Objectives

• Given the Smartboard, computer, power point,
  poster board, colored pencils Students will be
  able to analyze the epic, The Odyssey identify
  its author (Homer) create a picture board of the
  books of The Odyssey and complete a quiz on
  the epic with 80 accuracy.

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Anticipatory Set Copy and Answer (25 pts.)

• Everyone travels by foot, car, bike, plane, or
  train. What was the longest journey you ever had?
  How long did it take you to get there? Where were
  you going?

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Anticipatory Set Continued

• Connection Today, you are going to briefly be
  introduced to the writer Homer and his work, The
  Odyssey.
• Relevancy At the center of most stories is a
  conflict. We face conflicts in our every day
  life.

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The Odyssey
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Assignment 1 Notebook (25 pts)

• Directions In your notebook, number from 1-16.
  Looking at the map on the next slide, name the
  places Odysseus traveled.

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Assignment 2 KWL

• Directions

• KWL

• Create a KWL chart describing what you know
  about Greek Mythology. You will only fill out the
  first two columns. The last column will be used
  later (Learn).

Know Want to Know Learned

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Essential Questions Notebook (25 pts)

• Directions Copy and answer these questions based
  on the next slides.
• 1. What is an epic?
• 2. What is an odyssey?
• 3. Who wrote the epic, The Odyssey?
• 4. How would you describe the author? Name
  three.
• 5. What was the setting for the Iliad and The
  Odyssey?

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Words to Know

• Epic and Odyssey

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What is an Epic and an Odyssey?

• Epic A long narrative poem about a legendary
  hero.
• Odyssey A journey or long travel.

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The Writer of Epics

• Who wrote The Odyssey?

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Homer

• Homer was the writer.
• He was also
• a poet
• thought to be blind, but describes events as a
  seeing person
• lived around 1200 B.C.E

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Homer

• Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey - stories about
  the war between the Trojans and the Greeks which
  had happened between 900 and 700 B.C.E.

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Iliad

• Story of the last year of the Trojan War
• War had lasted 10 years.
• Troy was defeated when Ulysses (named Odysseus)
  and his men were able to get inside the walls of
  Troy concealed within the body of the Trojan
  horse.

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The Trojan Horse
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The Journey Begins

• The Odyssey

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The Odyssey Introduction

• The story of the journey of Ulysses/Odysseus and
  his men trying to get home after the Trojan War.
• It is an epic about humans on the journey of life
  overcoming temptations along the way.

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The Odyssey

• Summary of the Epic

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Assignment 3 Map

• Using the next several slides, you are going to
  create a map/story board of thirteen adventures
  of Odysseus. You are going to draw a picture for
  each scene (the next 13 slides) on a poster
  board. All scenes must be your own drawings.
  Each block for each scene must be filled with
  color. You will need to have
• 1. Poster board
• 2. Colored pencils and
• 3. Power point slides (13 slides).
• A model is on the next page.

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Model Map 2 Colorful example of how each scene
is colored.
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(1)Years after the end of the

• Trojan War, the Greek hero Odysseus still hasnt
  come home to Ithaka, and many believe him to be
  dead. In fact, as Homer immediately lets us know,
  Odysseus is being held captive (for the purposes
  of a lover, believe it or not) on the island of
  the goddess Kalypso. To make matters worse,
  Poseidon, the god of the sea, is ticked off at
  Odysseus, and sees no reason to let him get home.

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(2) Back in Ithaka

• Odysseuss wife Penelope is getting swarmed by a
  horde of unwanted suitors. Odysseus and
  Penelope's son, Telemachos, now a teenager, gets
  visited by the goddess Athene (who was always
  chummy with Odysseus). She tells him to go in
  search of news of his missing father. He takes
  her advice, first traveling to Pylos to visit
  King Nestor. Nestor takes him in, feeds him well
  and then tells him to go see King Menelaos in
  Sparta. Once again, he does as hes told.

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(3) In Sparta,

• Telemachos learns from Menelaos that Odysseus is
  alive andwell, being held captive on Kalypsos
  island. Menelaos also tells Telemachos about how
  his brother, King Agamemnon, was killed upon his
  return home from Troy by his unfaithful wife,
  Klytaimestra, and her lover, Aigisthos. Agamemnon
  was avenged by his son Orestes, who killed the
  murderers in return for their treachery..
  Meanwhile, back in Ithaka, Penelope's suitors
  plot to ambush and kill Telemachos when he
  returns home. Oh, the tension!

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(4) Up on Mount Olympus,

• where the gods all hang out, the goddess Athene
  asks her father, Zeus, the King of the gods, to
  have mercy on Odysseus and force Kalpyso to
  release him. Zeus says, Whatever, and in no
  time, Odysseus sails off on a makeshift raft.
  Unfortunately, Poseidon whips up some storms, and
  instead of getting home, Odysseus washes ashore
  in the land of the Phaiakians. Fortunately,
  Athene makes the resident princess, Nausikaa,
  develop a crush on him. Nausikaa takes him home
  to meet her parents, the King and Queen of
  Phaiakia. In return for their hospitality,
  Odysseus tells them everything thats happened to
  him since the end of the Trojan War

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(5) Odysseus left

• Troy with a ship of his Ithakan men. At their
  first stop, they plundered the locals stuff.
  Several storm-tossed days later, they landed on
  the island of the Lotus-eaters. A few guys ate
  the lotus flower and forgot their homes and
  families, and had to be taken back to the ship by
  force.

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(6) Next,

• Odysseus and his men came to the land of the
  Cyclopses giant one-eyed monsters. Odysseus and
  his men stumbled into a cave, which,
  unfortunately, belonged to one of these
  man-eating creatures. The Cyclops sealed the
  entrance to the cave with a huge boulder and ate
  a few of the Ithakans. Odysseus kept his cool,
  though, and told the monster his name was
  Nobody. Then he got the Cyclops drunk on wine
  and stabbed it in the eye with a sharpened log.
  When the creature whose name turns out to be
  Polyphemos cried out that Nobody is killing
  me, the other Cyclopses were like, Then pipe
  down, already! Odysseus is one clever dude.

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(7) The Cyclops

• Next, Odysseus tied his men under the bellies of
  Polyphemoss flock of sheep. The next morning,
  when the blinded monster opened the cave to let
  them out to pasture, he only touched the tops of
  the sheep to make sure nobody was riding them
  and was duped again. The actual Nobody made his
  escape last, clinging to a ram. (Here's a picture
  of his escape.) The problem is, as Odysseus was
  sailing away with his men, his ego got the better
  of him. He taunted the Cyclops, telling him his
  real name. This was a dumb idea because
  Polyphemos was the son of Poseidon, the god of
  the sea. He prayed to his father to make Odysseus
  suffer. And suffer. And lose all his men. And
  maybe die too. This is why Poseidon hates our
  hero so much.

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(8) Island of Aiolos

• Next, Odysseus and his men came to the island of
  Aiolos, god of the wind. He helped Odysseus out
  by putting all the winds except for the
  west-bound breeze they needed into a nice
  little bag. Unfortunately, Odysseus didnt tell
  his men whats in the bag. On the way home, they
  opened it up, thinking it was full of treasure.
  Big mistake. All the winds jumped out and ran
  riot, thus driving them to the island of Circe, a
  sorceress. She turned many of the men into pigs.
  With the help of the gods, Odysseus got his men
  turned back into humans and had sex with Circe.
  For a year. Then one of his men said, Can we get
  going already? and Odysseus said, "OK." But then
  Circe instructed them that they had to go the
  Underworld and get advice from the prophet
  Teiresias. So off they went.

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(9) The Sirens

• Teiresias prophesied that Odysseus would make it
  home, but not without difficulty. Odysseus spoke
  to several other famous dead people (like his war
  buddies Achilleus and Agamemnon). He also met the
  ghost of his mother, Antikleia, who had died of
  grief over her sons prolonged absence. Then,
  after a quick pit stop back at Circes island,
  where they got some more directions, Odysseus and
  his men sailed on. ??Soon, they passed by the
  Sirens, monstrous women with beautiful voices who
  try to lure sailors to their deaths. Odysseus
  made his men plug their ears and tie him to the
  mast so he could listen to the song without
  chasing after it. In this way, he became the only
  man to hear the Sirens' song and survive.

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(10) Scylla and Charybdis

• Next they met two horrible monsters, also female,
  named Scylla and Charybdis. As predicted by
  Circe, Scylla (who has six heads) ate six
  Ithakans the rest barely escaped Charybdis (a
  giant vortex who sucks up the sea and vomits it
  back out again). After that they landed on the
  island of Helios, the sun god, where his very
  special cattle were kept. Despite having been
  warned by Teiresias and Circe not to eat the
  cattle, Odysseuss men couldnt control their
  hunger. Bad call. Not long afterward, everyone
  died in a storm except for Odysseus. He wound
  up on Kalypsos island, where he was held
  prisoner for seven years.?

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(11) Poseidon

• So, thats it for Odysseuss story to the
  Phaiakians. They are so moved by his suffering
  that they load him up with treasure and ferry him
  back to Ithaka. (Unfortunately, in return for
  their trouble, the god Poseidon turns them and
  their ship into stone.) Once Odysseus gets home,
  Athene disguises him as a beggar so he can scope
  out the situation. Odysseus then recruits the
  assistance of the swineherd, Eumaios, who puts
  him up for the night while Athene flies to Sparta
  to retrieve Telemachos. When Telemachos gets
  back, Odysseus reveals himself to his son. Then
  Odysseus heads to the palace, still disguised as
  a beggar. Without revealing his true identity, he
  talks to Penelope and tries to convince her that
  Odysseus is on his way home. She doesnt believe
  him. Odysseus uses this opportunity to see which
  of his servants are still loyal to the household
  and which have joined the suitors.

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(12)The Old Bow

• At a certain point, Penelope, tired of waiting
  around, offers the suitors a test she sets up a
  contest of physical prowess and declares that she
  will marry the winner. The deal is, all the men
  have to try to string Odysseuss old bow and
  shoot it through the heads of twelve axes. Many
  suitors try and fail until the beggar (Odysseus
  in disguise) asks for a chance to try. He
  succeeds, drops the disguise, and, with the help
  of Telemachos, several loyal servants, and
  Athenes protection, kills all the suitors in a
  massive and bloody slaughter. Then Odysseus
  reunites with his wife, and everything seems
  hunky-dory except for the detail that hes just
  killed all the young noblemen of Ithaka and their
  parents are furious.

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(13) The End

• The next morning, Odysseus leaves the palace,
  reunites with his father Laertes, and lays low
  while the angry moms and dads start looking for
  vengeance. Just when it looks like more violence
  is on the way, Athene appears and tells everyone
  to just quit it already lets all settle down
  and get along. This sounds like a good idea to
  everyone, and peace is restored in Ithaka.

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Characters

• Who was your favorite?

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Assignment 4 Characters

• Directions In your notebook, describe who was
  your favorite character and why. What was the
  characters role in the story? Then draw a
  picture of this character.
• The next slides give examples of some of the
  characters to help you.

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Characters

• Ulysses or Odysseus
• Sirens - group of females who lured sailors by
  their singing

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Characters

• Circe - goddess, enchantress, who turned men into
  swine
• Scylla - monster with 12 feet and 6 heads with 3
  rows of teeth, carries off a sailor in each mouth
  

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Characters

• Charybdis - 3 times a day pulls sailors into her
  whirlpool
• Hyperion - the sun (distinct from Apollo, the sun
  god)
• JoveZeusJupiterleader of the gods
• Eurylochus - one of the crew members

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The Odyssey Quiz

• Directions Click on the link below to take the
  quiz. In order to get a grade, you must show
  your teacher your score.
• http//www.projectx2002.org/nederlands_hotpots/qui
  z_odyssey.htm

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Closure Exit Slip

• Complete the KWL chart for what you have learned.

Know Want to Know Learned