The Odyssey 9th Grade ELA Reading Guide AACPA 2015­2016 Key: ❏ Items that should be included in your interactive notebook. Remember! Section 1: Any work related to our book/critical thinking. Section 2: Grammar. Section 3: Vocabulary/Literary Terms ❖ Critical Thinking Questions and ideas that should be considered and discussed ➢ Quizzes/Tests ★ Socratic Seminar topics ➔ Essays typed in MLA format For this unit, you must bring your Social Studies Notebook with you EVERYDAY! The Odyssey ​
Reading Selections and approx. dates Key Scene 1 Introduction and Background The Odyssey ​
Book I The Wanderings of Odysseus ​
p. 46­55 Key Scene 2 The Odyssey ​
Book V Essential Questions and Organization ❖ Why study myths? How can myths written thousands of years ago be important to us as scholars and readers today? ❖ How does understanding roots, prefixes, and suffixes help us understand unfamiliar vocabulary? ❖ How does Mente’s (Athena’s) visit change Telemachus? ❏ Introduction to ​
The Odyssey​
(Annotated) ❏ Word Study Set 1 ❏ Literature Circles Key Scene 2​
­ guided ❖ The sea motif recurs throughout The Odyssey. What could the sea symbolize? ❖ For what reasons does Odysseus ​
really​
choose to leave Calypso and make way for Ithaca, and what does this choice demonstrate about his character and about Greek values? Vocabulary and Lit. Terms Literary Terms epic (n) epic hero epithet verse lyric tone in medias res Vocabulary odyssey (n) muse (n) bard (n) Literary Terms motif Vocabulary nymph (n) Supplemental Reading ❏ Introduction Packet: ​
Review Social Studies background and Excerpts from ​
How To Read Literature Like a Professor​
, chapter 9 “It’s Greek to Me” 9th Grade Social Studies Odyssey Character Guide and ​
God and Goddess Dictionary Key Scene 3 The Odyssey ​
Book VI ❏ Word Study Set 2 ❏ Literature Circles Key Scene 3 ❖ How does Odysseus’ greeting of Nausikaa demonstrate his character? Key Scene 4 The Odyssey ​
Book IX The Wanderings of Odysseus​
p. 64­82 AND p. 3­45 ❏ Word Study Set 3 ❏ Literature Circles Key Scene 4 ❖ In weighing the complexity of Odysseus’ character, in his interaction with the Cyclops do his strengths outweigh his weaknesses? Literary Terms flashback tragic flaw hubris Key Scene 5 Summative The Wanderings of Odysseus​
p. 83­131 ★ GradeD Socratic Seminar on final Essential Question ➔ Through Homer’s ​
The Odyssey​
what did the ancient Greeks intend to teach young boys about what it means to be a great man?