The+Odyssey+by+Homer

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Novel Review Sheet

The Odyssey quiz pages 142-152

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The assignment was...

The Odyssey review pages 1-61. Each team of three will cover six of the following literary elements. Pages 1-7, 8-14, 15-21, 22-28, 29-35, 36-42, 43-49, 50-54, 55-61 1. List by order of importance with a brief description all the characters. 2. Retell the plot for you pages. Include the setting and major events as well as significant people. 3. Find at least three themes you can take away from your pages. 4. Describe an example of all four types of conflicts within your pages. 5. Recall five allusions other than our main characters Homer's audience would have known. 6. Look for repetition. Since this story was originally told in oration, five at least five examples of repetition. You have thirty minutes to complete your task in school. If you do not finish, each person take two of the topics to present after finishing preparations. This will be due Friday.

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Alphabet Soup

Directions: Think of a proper noun – person, place, monster, thing, etc. that starts with the letter of the alphabet that deals with the Greeks, Romans, gods, legends, or mythology. (You may add as we read the introduction today.) You must end up with at least 26 total examples, so you can skip X and Q if you cannot think of an example. You may list multiple for others. Give yourself a bonus point for each extra example over 26.

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Examples for A – Achilles, Agamemnon, Apollo,Athens, Athena…