1. Honors English 9 Feb 17 – 18 Heroes and Responsibility: The Odyssey  Bell Ringer: Interpret the Text  Books I – IV QUIZ Mon/Tues, 20 pts.  Review Notes:  Odysseus  Conflicts  Epic, Epithet, Epic Simile  GROUPS: Timeline Review

2. Bell Ringer: Interpret the Text Fold a page in the Class Assignments section of your notebook lengthwise to form two columns. Copy the lines below on the left side of the page. Who is speaking about whom? On the right side of your paper, rewrite your own version of each line to show your understanding of the text. 1. In former days this house bade fair to be wealthy and esteemed, so long as he were here... 2. but the hard-purposed gods then changed their minds and shut him from our knowledge more than all men beside. 3. For were he dead, I should not feel such grief, if he had fallen among comrades in the Trojan land, or in the arms of friends when the skein of war was wound.

3. Books I – IV QUIZ Monday, Feb. 22, 20 points Know: Characters and Events Athena, Zeus, Odysseus, Penelope, Telemachus, Antinous, Nestor, Menelaus, Helen Conflicts New Literary Terms – Epic, Epithet, Epic Simile Interpret Text

4. Epic! epic An epic is a long narrative tale of the deeds of gods or heroes. epic poems (verse) “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” are epic poems (verse). Two literary techniques specifically found in epic verse are: An epic simile is an elaborate comparison of two subjects. Epic similes usually include two or more lines of description. An epithet is a word or an appositive phrase that is used to describe a person or thing. These techniques help readers understand characters, setting, and action. 2A 3A Feb 12 2B Feb 16 (4B Feb 11?)

5. Epic Simile – The Odyssey... under her feet she bound her beautiful sandals, immortal, made of gold, which carry her over the flood and over the boundless land swift as a breath of wind.... Clear-eyed Athena passed away, even as a bird – a sea-hawk – takes its flight. It was like a mast, a lugger of twenty oars, broad in the beam – a deep sea-going craft might carry; Just so that eyeball hissed around the spike.

6. Epithet I am Laertes’ son, Odysseus... Circe of Aeaea, the enchantress,... Zeus, the lord of cloud... At evening came the shepherd with his flock... (Polyphemus) Odysseus, raider of cities...... blue girdler of the islands (Poseidon)

7. Group Challenge: Timeline As a group, write to create a timeline for Books I – IV List a series of 4 key events for each book for a total of 16 events Include the page number for each event