Expectations
•Make Predictions
•Notes on conflict
•Analyze character of Odysseus and
take notes on the Epic Hero
•Infer
•Discuss foreshadowing
•Discuss/identify literary elements
•Epithets-take notes
•Notes about Culture and Society of
Ancient Greeks as we make inferences
•PAY ATTENTION and PARTICIPATE in
discussions.
Vocabulary-for each word, define it, write the
part of speech and then use it in your own
sentence as the correct part of speech. Your
sentences must reflect an understanding of the
word.
• Adversary
• Appalled
• Avenge
• Disdain
• Entreat
• Formidable
• Guile
* ponderous
* whim
* indifferent
Epic Hero
• “that man skilled in all ways of
contending, the wanderer, harried for
years on end.”
• notes• “Weathered many bitter nights and days
in his deep hear at sea, while he fought to
save his life, to bring his shipmates
home.”
• notes-
Conflict
• What types of conflict are introduced?
Epic Hero
• “I am Laertes’ son, Odysseus. Men hold
me formidable for guile in peace and war:
this fame has gone abroad to the sky’s
rim.”
• Notes-
Epithet
• Circe of Aeae, the enchantress
Internal Conflict
• “But in my heart, I never gave consent.
Where shall a man find sweetness to
surpass his own home and his parents?
In far lands he shall not, though he finds a
house of gold.”
• Notes-
Conflict
• “What those years of rough adventure,
weathered under Zeus? I might have
made it safely home, that time, but as I
came round Malea, the current took me
out to sea, and from the north a fresh
gale drove me on, past Cythera. Nine
days I drifted on the teeming sea before
dangerous high winds.
• Notes-
Conflict
• How are the lotus eaters a
threat to Odysseus and his
men?
Infer
• “In the land we found were
Cyclopes, giant, louts, without a
law to bless them.” What does
this mean?
• Why doesn’t Odysseus respect
the Cyclopes?
• What do we learn about Ancient
Greek civilization here?
Cont. Infer
• Notes• What else do we discover about Ancient
Greek values from Odysseus’ view of the
Cyclopes?
Epic Hero
• “Old shipmates, friends, the rest of you
stand by; I’ll make the crossing in my own
ship, with my own company, and find out
what the mainland natives are for they
may be wild savages, and lawless, or
hospitable and god-fearing men.”
• Notes-
Epic Poem
• Find the example of personification.
• Notes-
Infer
• Infer what the Greeks valued about themselves,
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based on Odysseus’ description of the Cyclopes.
“He slept in this cave alone, and took his flocks
to graze afield-remote from all companions,
knowing none but savage ways, a brute so
huge, he seemed no man at all of those who eat
good wheaten bread; but he seemed rather a
shaggy mountain reared in solitude.”
Foreshadowing
• What does Odysseus mean when he says, “Yet,
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I refused, I wished to see the caveman, what he
had to offer-no pretty sight, it turned out, for my
friends.”
What does Odysseus mean when he says, “no
pretty sight, it turned out for my friends?”
Why does Odysseus refuse his men’s “sound”
request?
Inferring
“We would entreat you, great Sir, have a
care for the gods’ courtesy; Zeus will
avenge the unoffending guests.”
Why does Odysseus emphasize the social
custom of giving hospitality to strangers
and mentions the possible wrath of Zeus if
the Cyclopes do not receive them
hospitably?
Inferring pg. 902
• What is the Cyclopes attitude
towards the gods?
• Why do you think Odysseus lies
about his ship?
Similes pg. 903
• The Cyclopes “Caught two (men) in
his hands like squirming puppies.”
• “Then he dismembered them and
made his mean-crunching like a
mountain lion.”
• What do these two similes
emphasize?
Pg. 903
•Why doesn’t Odysseus kill
the Cyclopes at this time?
Simile pg. 903
•“the Cyclopes reset the
stone as one would cap a
quiver.”
•What does this simile
mean?
Pg. 904 Summarize to Clarify
• What are the main points of Odysseus’
plan?
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Make A Prediction
pg. 904
•What do you think will
happen next and why?
Inferring pg. 904
• Consider the characteristics of both menOdysseus and the Cyclopes; Why does
Odysseus seem to insult him while he is
trying to get him to drink the wine?
• “Cyclopes, try some wine. Here’s liquor to
wash down the scraps of men. Taste it,
and see the kind of drink we carried.”
Inferring/Predicting
pg. 904
• Why does Odysseus offer the
Cyclopes the drink of wine?
Inferring pg. 906
• Cyclops, you ask my honorable
name? Remember the gift you
promised me, and I shall tell you.
My name is Nohbdy; mother,
father, and friends, everyone calls
me Nohbdy.”
• What might Odysseus be
planning?
Make A Prediction pg. 906
• What will happen to Odysseus
and his men after the Cyclops is
blinded? Explain how he will
escape from the cave.
Inferring pg.
907
•What do the
•other Cyclopes
•assume to be the
• source of Polyphemus’
pain?
Inferring pg. 907
• Does Odyssues seem to be
enjoying what he is doing?
How do you know?
Summarize to Understand
pg. 908
•How are the men
escaping from the cave?
Epic Hero pg. 908
•What does this say about
Odysseus as an Epic Hero?
Suspense pg. 908
• “Sweet cousin ram, why lag behind the rest in
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the night cave? You never linger so, but graze
before them all, and go afar to crop sweet
grass, and take your stately way leading right
along the streams, until at evening you run to
be the first one in the fold. Why now so far
behind? Can you be grieving over your master’s
eye?
Explain how Polyphemus’ speech to the ram
beneath which Odysseus hides adds suspense to
the passage.
Tone pg. 908
•How does Polyphemus’
tone change at the end of
his speech?
Making Predictions pg. 910
• “O Cyclops! Would you feast on my
companions? Puny am I, in a Caveman’s
hands? How do you like the beating that
we gave you, you damned cannibal?
Eater of guests under your roof! Zeus and
the gods have paid you!”
• Predict what you think will happen next.
Epic Hero
pg. 910
• “The blind thing in his
doubled fury broke a
hilltop in his hands and
heaved it after us. Ahead of our black prow
it struck and sank whelmed in a spuming
geyser, a giant wave that washed the ship
stern foremost back to shore.”
• Notes about Odysseus’ Character:
Inferring/Epic Hero pg. 910
• How does the crew’s plea
compare to the advice they gave
earlier in the episode? (lines 126130)
• What does this tell us about
Odysseus?
Epic Hero pg. 911
• Why does Odysseus reveal so much
about himself?
• “Cyclops, if ever a mortal man inquire
how you were put to shame and
blinded, tell him Odysseus, raider of
cities, took your eye: Laertes’ son,
whose home’s on Ithaca!”
Irony pg. 911
• Recall: What was the prophecy
that Polyphemus heard a long
time ago?
• What is ironic
about the prophecy
That Polyphemus
remembers?
Epithet pg. 912
•What is the Epithet in this
third stanza?
•(It was mentioned earlier
as well on the pg. prior.)
Making Predictions pg. 912
•“In these words he prayed,
and the god heard him.”
•Predict what this statement
suggests about he fate of
Odysseus and his men.
Interference of the gods
• How do the gods interfere?
Writing Assignment: With a partner, answer the
questions on pg. 914
1, (2nd Question), 4, 5 and Literary Analysis
Answer #1: What is your general impression of Odysseus,
based on his adventures with the Cyclops?
Answer 2nd Question: What does Odysseus think of the way
the Cyclopes live?
Answer # 4: Do you consider Polyphemus a villain? Do
Odysseus’ actions toward him seem justified? Explain.
Answer #5: From the characterization of Polyphemus, what
conclusions can you draw about the qualities that ancient
Greek society considered barabaric or uncivilized? Use
specific examples from the poem to support your ideas.
Do the Literary Analysis Chart
Study Your Vocabulary
• Do the VOCABULARY IN ACTION on pg.
915
• Do Exercise A: 1-5
• Do Exercise B: 105
Don’t forget to do your
journaling!
• Cyclops