Danielle Earley's
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Unit: The Voyage Home
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Comparison between a text book and an Epic Poem
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Comparing Two Genres
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The Epic poem : The Odyssey
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The Website Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
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The text book and The Web site
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The epic poem, The Odyssey by Homer and the Introduction to the Chapter
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One Website Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
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Who is the author?
| David Adams Leeming author of Introduction. Homer recorder of The Odyssey. | Tony Arkwright, Justin Eichenlaub, and John Ramsey are the web authors.
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Style of writing
| Informational writing and Narrative poetry | Informational Writing
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Presentation
| Poems in past presented by an oral storyteller. Now excerpts and Introduction written for text book. | Written in html for the internet
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Internal Links
| Divisions in text book | Under Contents on Home Page
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| | The Odyssey An Introduction | Links to information on the Iliad
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| | Part One: The Wanderings | Links to information on the Odyssey
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| | Calypso, The Sweet Nymph | Links to Etexts
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| | "I am Alerts' Son…." | Links to Homer's Greece
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| | The Lotus Eaters | Links to Comparitive Mythology
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| | The Cyclops | Links to Mailing List
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| | The Witch Circe | Links to References
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| | The Land of the Dead | Links to Feedback
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| | The Sirens: Scylla and charbydis |
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| | The Cattle of the Sun God |
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| | Part Two Coming Home |
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| | The Meeting of Father and Son |
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| | The Beggar and the faithful dog |
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| | The Test of the Great Bow |
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| | Death at the Palace |
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| | Odysseus and Palace |
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Information about Homer
| Homer credited for gathering the stories the Odyssey and the Iliad together. | Homer recorded two poems the Odyssey and the Iliad.
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| | Who was Homer? No one knows who homer was. He is believed to be a blind minstrel who cam to Chios. |
Who was Homer? Two theories found on this page. http;//library.thinkquest.org/19300/data/Hist/slide4.htm
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| | He could be fiction and just be a model for a class of wandering barbs called rhapsodies. |
Tradition says Homer lived same era as Trojan war, in Ionic settlement, such as Chios or Smyrna.
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| Rhapsodies were myth-makers of time and there was no written history in Homer's day. |
Homer was believed to make his living as a court singer or storyteller.
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| | | There is no evidence at all but we can hypothesize
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| Archelogical data shows possible dates of creation to be 8th C or 9th C BC
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Information regarding the epics
| Stories can be traced to historical struggles for control
of the waterway leading from the Aegean sea to the sea of Marmara and the
Black sea | Students will need to find their own relevant
facts when they explore the website. I have begun the list for them
but they must fill in the remaining blocks.
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What was the Iliad about?
| The Iliad tells of the ten year war outside the walls of Troy.
| The Iliad centers around Achilles who is battling his internal battles over the issues of war.
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| | The ruins of troy still found in western Turkey | Main form of battle was one on one challenges.
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| | One cause of the war could be jealousy. Helen abandoned her husband Menelaus, for the prince of troy Paris |
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What was the Odyssey about?
| The Odyssey is about a Greek soilder Odysseus who is trying to get home after the war. | The website provides for the Odyssey a synopsis of each book with sound clips saying the characters names and identities.
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What is an epic?
| Epics are long narrative poems that tell of adventures of heroes who in some way embody values of their civilizations. | Homer used the style of "in media res" where he tells his story from the middle of the action.
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What is a hero?
| A hero in homer's day was a special class of aristocrats. Who placed between gods and ordinary humans. | Odysseus is a Greek hero known for muscle and an inquiring mind. He has prowress and bravery.
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| | Odysseus is a hero in trouble. | Odysseus weaknesses are his pride which he has to much of, he braggs about his exploits which lead to his demise.
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| | Odysseus did not want to go to war and
pretended to go mad in order to draft dodge. They tested his sanity by throwing
his son before a plow and he had to stop the plow. |
Odysseus is a ladies man and this keeps him many years from returning.
Circe added on one extra year, and Calypso added on seven years.
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| | Odysseus thought of the famous wooden horse trick. |
The web site provides two character arcs. One is written by Justin
Eichenlaub and the other by Tony Arkwright. This is a five page analysis
of Odysseus.
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Map of the journey
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Book supplies map on title page of chapter that shows Odyssues route to get home.
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Website provides a visual map with each step of the journey and a synopsis in the section called Travels of Odysseus.
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What was it like to live during the time of Odysseus?
| Violent culture had little reserve. Most men acted like pirates and raided towns. |
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How does the story begin?
| Story begins with Telemachus quest for his father after 20 years which is the end. |
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| | Then story goes to Odysseus after twenty years |
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What is a myth?
| Myths are stories that are fantasy to express ideas about life can not be expressed in realistic terms. |
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| | Relationships between humans and Gods both have similar attributes good and bad |
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What is a literary charateristic of the Odyssey?
| Homeric similes are elaborate comparisons. |
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Evaluation after and during the epic.
| Provides 3 pages of activities to do to integrate each section of the Odyssey | Provides a sheet of questions on the Odyssey
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| | | Provides a 75 page review section of the Odyssey
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Written Text Provided.
| Parts of epic poem listed above in contents. | A complete translation of the Odyssey and the Iliad by Samuel Butler
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Miscellanious features of the text.
| Provides definitions of words on right side of text | Link to the University of Saskatchewan
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| | Writing focus | Project Gutterman (book offered for purchase on Greek Gods)
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| | Provides other poems translated by different authors. |
Provides links to other poems considered epics
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| | Pictures of Art and Homer |
Picture of Art and Homer
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| | a list of people and places in the Odyssey |
A list of people and places in the Odyssey
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Bibliography
| I used this textbook for my comparison | I used this website for my comparison
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| | Daniel, Kathleen. Elements of Literature. Austin: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2000. | Arkwright, Tony; Eichenlaub, Justin;
and Ramsey, John. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
. (Online) Available http://search.britannica.com/frm_redir.jsp?query=the+odyssey&redir
=http://www.velocity.net/~jutman/homer.htm |