Introduction
Welcome to The Odyssey Webquest. You will learn about Homer and Gods/Goddesses that play or role in the story. Also you will get to play The Odyssey Game at the end of your quest.
Write out your answers in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper in order to get full credit.
Have fun!
Task
TASK 1 Who was Homer?
Write a summary of each section:
Homer’s History
http://www.biography.com/people/homer-9342775
1. Who was Homer?
2. Where did he live?
3. What was he like?
4. What is his legacy?
TASK 2 Write a one or two sentence definition for each of the following using the following link:
http://www.pantheon.org/main/search.html
Aeolus_____________________________________________________________ Apollo_____________________________________________________________ Athena____________________________________________________________ Helios_____________________________________________________________ Muses_____________________________________________________________ Poseidon___________________________________________________________ Zeus______________________________________________________________
HUMANS
Laertes____________________________________________________________ Nausicaa___________________________________________________________ Odysseus__________________________________________________________ Penelope___________________________________________________________ Telemachus________________________________________________________ Tiresias___________________________________________________________
Task 3
Write a one or two sentence definition for each of the following using the following link:
SUPERNATURAL BEINGS
Calypso___________________________________________________________ Charybdis_________________________________________________________ Circe______________________________________________________________ Cyclops/Polyphemus_________________________________________________ Scylla_____________________________________________________________ Sirens_____________________________________________________________
TASK 5
Play the Odyssey game!
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/odchoice.htm
Choose your character, and begin your adventure. Summarize in one paragraph what happens on your QUEST!