World LiteratureWednesday November 2Thursday November 3

Journal PromptO Have you ever been to a

funeral/memorial service? How did it make you feel and why?

O If you have never been to a funeral, what are your expectations for one? Do you think you would find it important to go or would you rather grieve/honor a loved one another way

Today’s ObjectivesO To analyze the descent stage of the

hero’s journey for OdysseusO 2 Pre-Reading strategies

O Make a personal connection to literature

O Practice close reading by examining a specific section of the text to summarizing before reading the text as a whole

Book 10?O Odysseus leaves the land of the KyklopesO Divine assistance: He is given a bag of wind to

help him sail on, but his shipmates become jealous and tear it open, causing a storm.

O Land of Giants: more of his men are eaten, Odysseus’s ship alone escapes

O Meets up with beautiful witch/goddess Circe/Kirke-after unpleasantness, he becomes her lover and hangs around for a year

O Finally they leave, but Kirke advises them they must go through Hades, the realm of the dead to get home

GroupsGroup 1 Lines 54-90 (p186-7)Elpenor-a crew member who died on Kirke’s island

Group 2Lines 100-179(p 188-190) TeireisiasTheban prophet foretells future for Odysseys

Group 3Lines 94-99; 170-255(P187, 190-192) AntikleiaOdysseus’ mother

Group 4Alkinoos (not dead but back to the present on Phaikiaia)386-449 (p 195-197)

Group 5Agamemnon449-546 (p 197-200)On wives

Group 6AchillesOn war and his son, Neoptolemus547-642(p. 200-203)

Group 7648-716(p 203-4)Other images of the dead:Aiax, Orion, Tityos

Group 8694-716(P 204-5)Tantalos and Sisyphus

PreReading: In your groups

O Together, read your assigned lines.O Determine what is learned in the

conversation with the deadO do they ask anything of Odysseus?O Do they give him information?O Do they give him advice/prediction?

O Choose people to read each character’s lines (Odysseus is narrator of both his and the dead)

O Those who do not read will summarize the important points for the class

Book 11: A Gathering of Shades

O Odysseus must journey to Hades to seek advice from Tiresias, a dead prophet.

O Consider what information Odysseus gets from the inhabitants of Hades

O Odyssey Hero’s Journey Illustrations are available at the front if you want to do one today

The women of lines 260-386

O These are ALLUSIONS that Homer’s audience would immediately recognize

O Hears the stories of their lives and deaths

O Epikaste (Jocaste) wife and mother of Oedipus

O Elkmene, mother of Herakles (Hecules)

O And many, many more

Evaluate the strategy:O How did thinking and talking about

your own experiences with funerals help you in understanding Odysseus as meets the dead?

O Compare today’s reading with previous days where Mrs. deVidal read aloud. Did you understand more/less/the same?

O Which strategy do you think helped you the most.

DepartureO The Call

O Hero receives a call to go on an adventure and often initially refusesO Luke Skywalker meets Obi Wan but doesn’t get that he is also a JediO Harry Potter receives the letter that says he is a wizard and doesn’t

believe it at firstO Something happens that forces the character to accept the call

O Luke Skywalker’s aunt and uncle are killed, forcing him to go with Obi Wan

O For Harry, Hagrid shows up on his 11th birthday to take him to HogwartsO Crossing the Threshold

O Moving from the known to the unknownO Luke Skywalker goes with Obi Wan to the bar with all the strange creaturesO Harry Potter leaves the muggle world to go to Hogwarts

O Threshold guardians (obstacles)O Storm TroopersO Fluffy, Draco, etc.

O Mentors and helpersO Obi Wan, R2D2, C3PO for LukeO Dumbledore, Hagrid, Ron, Hermione, etc. for Harry

Initiation and TransformationO The Challenges and Trials

O progressing in difficultyO Tempters/tricksters make things tough

O Descent into Darkness-actual or metaphorical HellO The biggest challenge-must be faced alone, the hero has to go on without

helpers or mentorO Obi Wan dies and Luke has to destroy the death star aloneO Harry faces Voldemort by himself (multiple times in the series)

O Death and rebirth-spiritual or actualO Luke has a spiritual rebirth. He finds the force.O Harry dies then comes back to life.

O Revelation and ReconciliationO Facing fear and flawO A new self or sense of selfO Reconciles with others in life

O Luke finds the force, starts to believe he’s a Jedi, finds out who is father isO Harry accepts his role in the prophecy and faces his fear of death but also

realizes he has a choice in his destiny

Analyze the hero’s journey

O In your journal, consider where Odysseus is on his hero’s journey (you may work with a partner, but both have this in your journal

O Give at least 2 examples (from notes of the text of specific parts of his departure (Call, refusal, crossing the threshold)

O Give at least 3 examples of Initiation and Transformation (Challenge and Trials< Descent)

O When using the text, use line numbers