The Odyssey

Almost three thousand years ago, people who lived in the starkly beautiful part of the world we now call Greece were telling stories about a great war. The person credited with later gathering all these stories together and telling them as one unified epic is a man named Homer (Homēros, in Greek). Homer's great war stories are called, in English, the Iliad and the Odyssey. (In Greek, the Iliad is Ilias and the Odyssey is Odysseia.)

You are about to take the same journey that Odessesus took to experience what he went through by interacting with the text.

I am Homer the Storyteller of the Odyssey.

Use your graphic organizer that is based on The Odyssey by me, "Homer."  As you read, record what happens to Odysseus at each step of his odyssey, and the price he pays along the way. For example identify whether or not he overcomes his challenges and at what price.

You will start from Troy and tke the journey of Odysseus to each island and discover what amazing issues and hardships the he and his men faced as well as discover why this turn into an epic journey for them.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/odchoice.htm