Odyssey Search

The Odyssey Web Quest

Directions: Please follow the directions for each section. You will create your answers on a Google Doc to be turned into Mrs. Bragg's Google Classroom. Completed work should be used to study for your Odyssey final exam.

You will need to login to Youtube in order to watch the videos.

INTRODUCTION: Why We Read the Odyssey

1. Go to https://excellence-in-literature.com/why-read-the-odyssey-2/ and read the letter.

2. Then, on your own document, write half of a page explaining, in your own words, why we still read the Odyssey. Be sure to include specific longings of the human heart.

PART 1: Important Characters in the Odyssey

For the following tasks, you may use your physical textbooks or go to Clever (MyHRW is the name of the textbook) to use the e-book version. Make sure you choose the 9th Grade Textbook!

1. “Important Characters” Chart: On your document, create a three-column chart for the important characters in the Odyssey by using the character list on page 370 of your textbook/e-book. See the sample chart.

2. “The Epic” Notes: Read pages 365-368 in your textbook/e-book and, on your document, summarize each of the four (4) sections.

Important Characters

For each book of the Odyssey (books 1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 21 - 23), make a three-column in your own document, chart like the one below. Classify each character as a god/goddess, human, or other. Give a word or phrase to help identify the character. Use the list on page 370 in your textbook/e-book. At the end, you will have 7 charts.

See example HERE

Epic Heroes: Past and Present

PART 2: Characteristics of the Epic

1. Read the PowerPoint and take substantial notes in your own document each section EXCEPT “How Zeus became King of the Gods” and “The Legend of the Trojan War.”

2. Watch the following clips and continue to take notes:

You will need to login to Youtube in order to watch the videos.

Epic Heroes: Past and Present

Greek Heroes: Popular Culture Through Time

PART 3: The Odyssey

1. Read the background information article about the Odyssey.

2. Write a 15 question multiple-choice quiz in your own document, covering the information from each section. You may work with a partner.

What is an Epic?- 2 questions
The War Story- the Iliad- 2 questions
The Odyssey's Hero, Theme, and Chronology- 4 questions
Myth and the Gods in Homer's Odyssey- 2 questions
Who Was Homer? - 2 questions
How Were Epics Told?- 3 questions

*Each question must have four answer choices and no choice may be "none of the above.”

PART 4: The Hero’s Journey

1. Read through the introduction from the webpage on Joseph Campbell and take notes in your own document.

2. Watch the “What Makes a Hero?” video and continue to take notes.

3. Using at least 10 of the 17 stages of Joseph Campbell’s monomyth, plot an experience of your own or one you have observed. You may write it in list form or create a circle like the example. Be sure to label the stages you have chosen.

*Think about challenges you have faced like moving to a new area, trying out for a team or group, making a new friend, learning a skill, overcoming shyness, etc.

PART 5: What’s Been Happening? (Books 1-8)

We begin reading the story of the Odyssey with Book 9, where Odysseus is telling another king about his adventures thus far. However, much has happened in books 1-8 about which we also need to know. This task will help us learn what has already occurred.

1. Go to www.mythweb.com. Click on “Heroes,” then “Odysseus,” then “Short Version.” Read books 1-8 and, in your document, then create a comic strip (at least 4 squares) for each book (you will have eight comic strips) that depicts the plot of each book. Include thought and dialogue bubbles where applicable.

PART 6: Odysseus' Journey

1. Access the site below to find out what occurred at each location of Odysseus’ journey from Troy back to his home island of Ithaca:

2. Open the following chart and "make a copy" for your own Google document. On the chart , Odysseus’ Journey, describe the events that occur at each location in your own words. Be sure to include the principle characters.

Part 7: A Father and Son's Last Journey Together

Directions:

- Click on the link under the picture to access Listenwise.
- Log into your Listenwise account (top right corner). Remember to use your CUSD login information.
- Go to the Dashboard tab
- Your assignment should be waiting. Start the Assignment
- Be sure to read everything on the page.
- Follow the directions for each part of this assignment

A Father And Son Go On Their Last 'Odyssey' Together

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