Odyssey

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Introduction to Odyssey
Greek Mythology Project Instructions

Comic Strip

 * You are creating a comic strip detailing the adventures of Odysseus and his men on the island of the Cyclops.
 * To make your comic strip work, you will need to create six panels – a Sunday comic. (A Sunday comic, you might recall, is always color; yours should be colored too.)
 * Each panel will represent one of the six points on the plot line- exposition, inciting moment, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
 * Your choice of these six important parts of the Cyclops episode should therefore reflect/retell the story accurately.
 * Each box will have text beneath it showing what part of the story is illustrated. That text **must be a direct quote from the story and have the line number(s) in parentheses after it.** You may invent short bits of dialogue to put inside the box itself.

Examples:





//Example//
In my life, the lotus eaters are just like the computer. The lotus eaters enjoyed the lotus plant: it tasted good, and once they tasted it, they wanted to do nothing but enjoy and stare at it. With the computer, I enjoy the things I do with it: reading good articles, talking to my friends, and laughing at silly stuff. What happens is I get to using it and I don’t want to stop—I could sit there for hours using the computer. That is also like the lotus eaters, who forgot their homeland and responsibilities and had to be dragged away. When using the computer, I forget the things that are important, like sleep, and I stay up too late and am too tired to enjoy my family. The computer is definitely a lotus plant to me.

What to do
Examples of good answers for the Analogizing the Monsters assignment are below. Please remember, these are not for copying, but are to help you see how the assignment is to be arranged.
 * You and Odysseus are similar, and while that will soon be the subject of an essay you'll write, I'd like to stop before we get there and write a reflective article about how the monsters Odysseus encounters are similar to "monsters" in your own life. You are going to make an [|analogy]between //The Odyssey// and your life.
 * Choose five monsters from the seven that Odysseus encounters in what we read (Lotus-eaters, Cyclops, Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, Helios, and the Suitors). Explain at least two characteristics of each of your five monsters, and then explain how those two characteristics are similar to a monster in your life.
 * This will be a long blog article, but it will not be graded on length. You'll get 6 points for each monster you discuss. Make sure you mention two characteristics and clearly link those characteristics to both the Odyssey's monster and yours. Total points = 30.
 * Here are some examples to help you:

The lotus-eaters are just like college football. When the guys eat the lotus flower they don’t care about getting home or anything else. When I watch college football I don’t listen to what my dad says to me and I don’t care about anything else that day or before that. When they ate the lotus flower Odysseus had to drag them away. When I’m watching college football my dad has to turn off the TV. and drag me away for me to go with him.
 * College Football and the Lotus Eaters**

Helios is just like my grandma. Helios is a god and everybody respects him. My Grandma is like a god in my family and everybody respects her and listens to her. Helios Does not like people messing with his cattle. When I mess around with my Grandmas dogs she gets mad at me. Helios threatens to go to the underworld and light it forever. When I don’t listen to her and keep messing with her dogs she threatens to move to where I can’t find her.
 * Helios and my grandma**

Scylla reminds me of my car. The main reason for this is because Scylla is beyond ugly, as is my car. It’s a 1992 Dodge Shadow, and I’m convinced that it would better the community if it were totaled. The other reason my car is just like Scylla is because Scylla yells a baby’s cry. Just like a baby’s cry, my car squeaks when I drive it. It’s very embarrassing.
 * Scylla and my car**

=Writing:= =Odysseus and Me = Example Odysseus+and+me+example.doc


 * The question:** //In what ways have you ever displayed similar characteristics to Odysseus?//

What exactly does that mean? How do I answer that?
 * A five-paragraph essay (meet the standards set in class with the previous essay)
 * **__THREE__** **__characteristics__** of Odysseus (one characteristic per supporting paragraph)
 * Prove each characteristic by presenting **__TWO__** **__quotes__** from the text (that’s a total of SIX quotes)
 * You must use at least one passage from each of the three major sections of the story ( //Cyclops, monsters, and homecoming// )
 * Relate each of the characteristics to a time when you acted with it ( **You’ll need to tell a small story** )
 * The paper needs to be in MLA Format. [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png width="32" height="32" link="file/view/MLA formatting.doc"]] MLA+formatting.doc