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Summary:
Students will read excerpts from Homer's Odyssey and use the information to recognize choices in their own life's odyssey, as well as the lives of others.
Materials:
Excerpts of Homer's Odyssey (available in most ninth grade literature books)
Media Center
Computer
Background For Teachers:
Knowledge of Homer's Odyssey
Intended Learning Outcomes:
Students will research and write a biographical essay focusing on the major turning points in that person's odyssey through life. Instructional Procedures:
As a class, discuss the importance of the choices people make.
Read excerpts from Homer's Odyssey.
Discuss the significance of the choices Odysseus made in his journey.
Students will select a historical figure to research.
Students will research their selected figure, focusing on choices (turning points) in that persons life.
Students will outline their essays.
Students will write their essays.
Extensions:
Rather than writing about a famous person, students could write about themselves, a friend or relative, or a fictional character, such as a Greek god.
Assessment Plan:
Students could share their writing with each other and do peer evaluations.
Bibliography:
Adventures in Reading (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, )
Zimmerman, J.E. Dictionary of Classical Mythology (Bantam, )
Adventures of Odysseus (, )
Author:
DEBORAH GREENWELL
Created Date :
Jun 09 1997 09:27 AM
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