Part 1: You have a time machine. You can only use it once, and you can only travel to the past. If you choose to use it, you must remain in the time period and location you have chosen for one full year. What would you do?
Part 2: I have gifted you an actual dinosaur. Your job is to determine how best to display it to the world in order to make millions of dollars in profit. Explain what you would do... Where would you put it? Why?
Intro to Odyssey + Translator Notes
Independent Work
Read Zadie Smith's Excerpt from "On Optimism and Despair"