The Odyssey – Part One: The WanderingsTest Review

• Know the Challenges• Hospitality

• Leadership and Honesty• Encounter with the Cicones• Lotus Eaters – danger to crew

• Sirens - danger• Calypso & Circe – Why did Odysseus stay so long?

• Helios – warning• Polyphemus (Cyclops) – threats and curse• Scylla & Charybdis – Odysseus’s leadership

The Odyssey – Part One: The WanderingsTest Review

• Teiresias – role in the story• Blindness in characters• Elements of Epic Poems• Elements of Myths

• Elements of Epic Heroes• Description of gods, goddesses, and creatures

• Questioning• Odysseus’s goals• Character traits• Vocabulary

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READING FOCUSQuick Check1. Whom does Homer ask to help him tell the story?2. From what war is Odyssey trying to return? What god causes Odysseus to lose course when he sets sail for home?3. What does Odyssey learn about his destiny from blind Teiresias in the Land of the Dead?Read with a Purpose4. Based on what you have read so far, what makes

Odysseus and his journey so memorable?Reading Skills: Reading an Epic 5. *Summary Chart

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LITERARY FOCUSLiterary Analysis6. Interpret – What do you think the Land of the Lotus

eaters might symbolize? Cite lines form the episode to support your interpretation.

7. Draw Conclusions – What conclusions about the deceptive nature of beauty can you draw from the Circe episode?

8. Literary Perspectives – What have you learned about ancient Greek society from reading Part One of the Odyssey?

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LITERARY FOCUSLiterary Skills: Epic Heroes and Conflict9. Identify – What qualities does Odysseus embody? List

three qualities, and give one example from the text that illustrates each.

10. Analyze – Which characters are FOILS, contrasting with Odysseus? How does the use of foils heighten the heroic character of Odysseus?

11. Evaluate – What sort of internal conflict does Odysseus undergo while he is with Calypso? Does this make him less heroic? EXPLAIN and DEFEND!!!

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LITERARY FOCUSLiterary Skills Review: Foreshadowing12. Analyze – Foreshadowing is the use of clues to hint at

events that will occur later. Re-read the Cyclops’s prayer to Poseidon.

• What other troubles for Odysseus are hinted at by these lines?

• How does foreshadowing create suspense?

Respond and Think Critically – page 1075

READING FOCUSQuick Check1. Whom does Homer ask to help him tell the story?

He asks the Muse to help him2. From what war is Odyssey trying to return? What god causes Odysseus to lose course when he sets sail for home?

Odysseus is returning from the Trojan War.Poseidon causes him to lose course

3. What does Odyssey learn about his destiny from blind Teiresias in the Land of the Dead?

He learns that Poseidon will cause the seas to become rough, his men will be lost, he will be

gone for many years, he will appease Poseidon, and he will die at sea when he is old

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READING FOCUSRead with a Purpose4. Based on what you have read so far, what makes

Odysseus and his journey so memorable?It is memorable because a clever hero

outwits unique adversariesReading Skills: Reading an Epic 5. *Summary Chart

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Literary Analysis6. Interpret – What do you think the Land of the Lotus eaters

might symbolize? Cite lines form the episode to support your interpretation.

It might symbolize the danger of allowing ease and pleasure to take away your identity

7. Draw Conclusions – What conclusions about the deceptive nature of beauty can you draw from the Circe episode?

Physical beauty does not signify inner virtue; it is unwise to be seduced by physical beauty

8. Literary Perspectives – What have you learned about ancient Greek society from reading Part One of the Odyssey?

The ancient Greeks honored strangers and valued hospitality

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Literary Skills: Epic Heroes and Conflict9. Identify – What qualities does Odysseus embody? List

three qualities, and give one example from the text that illustrates each.

Odysseus is generous in giving to his crew, overly proud when gloating to the Cyclops, and loyal to his crew

10. Analyze – Which characters are FOILS, contrasting with Odysseus? How does the use of foils heighten the heroic character of Odysseus?

Eurylochus is a foil. He contrasts weakness to Odysseus’s strength

11. Evaluate – What sort of internal conflict does Odysseus undergo while he is with Calypso? Does this make him less heroic? EXPLAIN and DEFEND!!!

Odysseus longs for home. His emotion does not seem heroic, but his willingness to give up immortality does.

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LITERARY FOCUSLiterary Skills Review: Foreshadowing12. Analyze – Foreshadowing is the use of clues to hint at

events that will occur later. Re-read the Cyclops’s prayer to Poseidon.

• What other troubles for Odysseus are hinted at by these lines?

• How does foreshadowing create suspense?

It will be a long time before he returns home; he will lose his companions and return under a strange sail.

Since the reader know what will happen, the anticipation of waiting and wondering how things will happen creates

suspense in the story.