Today we will help each other review the episodes of Part 1. Once I assign you to a group, your task will be to act out the scenes listed below and address the important components of your section. Everyone in your group must participate.
If you finish before other groups, you may continue to study for Tuesday's quiz over Part 1 until we start our performances.
Group #1 (p. 893)
Performance
Group #2 (p.895-898)
Performance
Group #3 (p.898-908)
Performance
Group #4 (p.911-913)
Performance
Group #5 (p.914-915; 918-919)
Performance
Group #6 (p.920-922)
Performance
If you finish before other groups, you may continue to study for Tuesday's quiz over Part 1 until we start our performances.
Group #1 (p. 893)
Performance
- Telemachus
- Odysseus washes up on shore
- King Alcinous' banquet
- Odysseus weeps
- Discuss the role of Xenia in this culture.
- What can we infer about Odysseus' character by the way he acts at the banquet?
Group #2 (p.895-898)
Performance
- Odysseus begins flashback
- Cicones
- Lotus Eaters
- Discuss a thematic idea that comes out of this section.
- Describe Odysseus as a leader at this point.
Group #3 (p.898-908)
Performance
- Encounter with the cyclops
- Clever escape
- Boasting and cursing
- Discuss Xenia in this section.
- Highlight the positive and negative characteristics of Odysseus.
Group #4 (p.911-913)
Performance
- Aeolus
- Laestrygonians
- Circe
- What thematic idea can be seen in the stories of both Aeolus and Circe?
- What parts of these stories seem to repeat themes/ideas found in earlier stories?
Group #5 (p.914-915; 918-919)
Performance
- Entering the Land of the Dead
- Teiresias' prophecy
- The sirens
- How has prophecy played a role in the story so far?
- What do we learn about Odysseus in this scene?
Group #6 (p.920-922)
Performance
- Scylla and Charybdis
- Cattle of Lord Helios
- Destruction of ship and crew
- Describe the symbolism represented by Scylla and Charybdis
- What important thematic idea explains the relationship between gods and mortals?