World Literature- The Odyssey
Google Lit Trip Adventure
CO State Standard:
4.1: Informational materials, including electronic
sources, need to be collected, evaluated, and analyzed
for accuracy, relevance, and effectiveness for answering
research questions.
Topic/Task:
Find information related to the
Odyssey and discuss the
mythological, historical and
geographical influences on the
text.
MYP Criterion B: Organizing
1. Employ organizational structures that serve the context and intention.
2. Organize opinions and ideas in a sustained, coherent and logical manner.
3. Use referencing and formatting tools to create a presentation style suitable to the context and intention.
Criterion Description
Task-Specific Clarifications
3.5
4.0
The student:
– Makes sophisticated use of
organizational structures that serve the
context and intention effectively.
– Effectively organizes opinions and
ideas in a sustained, coherent and
logical manner with ideas building on
each other in a sophisticated way.
– Makes excellent use of referencing and
formatting tools to create an effective
presentation style.
Integrate and synthesize information from different
sources to research and complete a project
Integrate information from different sources to form
conclusions about an author’s assumptions, biases, credibility,
cultural and social perspectives, or world views; student will
use Google Lit Trips to discuss and analyze the
historical, mythological and geographical influences on
the text.
Judge and analyze the usefulness of information based
on relevance to purpose, source, objectivity, copyright
date, cultural and world perspective and support the decision;
students discuss and analyze whether this lit trip is useful in
examining Odysseus’ route home and in understanding the
obstacles he encountered along the way.
2.5
3.0
– Makes competent use of
organizational structures that serve the
context and intention.
– Organizes opinions and ideas in a
coherent and logical manner with
ideas building on each other.
– Makes competent use of referencing
and formatting tools to create a
presentation style suitable to the context
and intention.
Integrate information from different sources to
research and complete a project
Integrate information from different sources to form
conclusions about an author’s assumptions, biases, credibility,
cultural and social perspectives, or world views ; students will
use Google Lit Trips to discuss and summarize the
historical, mythological and geographical influences on
the text.
Judge the usefulness of information based on relevance to
purpose, source, objectivity, copyright date, cultural and world
perspective (such as editorials), and support the decision;
students discuss whether this lit trip is useful in examining
Odysseus’ route home and in understanding the obstacles he
encountered along the way.
1.5
2.0
– Makes adequate use of organizational
structures that serve the context and
intention.
– Organizes opinions and ideas with some
degree of coherence and logic.
Integrates some information from different sources to
research and complete a project
Summarizes information from different sources to form
conclusions about an author’s assumptions, biases, credibility,
– Makes adequate use of referencing and
formatting tools to create a presentation
style suitable to the context and intention.
.5 1.0
0
cultural and social perspectives, or world views
Sometimes discusses the usefulness of information based on
relevance to purpose, source, objectivity, copyright date,
cultural and world perspective (such as editorials), and
support the decision
– Makes minimal use of organizational
Does not meet standard.
structures though these may not always
serve the context and intention.
– Organizes opinions and ideas with a
minimal degree of coherence and
logic.
– Makes minimal use of referencing and
formatting tools to create a presentation
style that may not always be suitable
to the context and intention.
The work does not reach a standard described by the descriptors.
CO State Standard:
Topic/Task:
Google Lit Trip of the Odyssey
3.1: Literary or narrative texts develop a controlling
idea or theme with descriptive and expressive language.
MYP Criterion C: Producing Texts
1. Produce texts that demonstrate insight, imagination and sensitivity while exploring and reflecting critically on new
perspectives and ideas arising from personal engagement with the creative process.
2. Make stylistic choices in terms of linguistic, literary and visual devices, demonstrating awareness of impact on an
audience.
3. Select relevant details and examples to develop ideas.
Criterion Description
Task-Specific Clarifications / Comments
3.5
4.0
2.5
3.0
1.5
2.0
The student:
– Produces texts that demonstrate a high
degree of personal engagement with the
creative process; demonstrates a high
degree of insight, imagination or
sensitivity and perceptive exploration of
and critical reflection on new perspectives
and ideas.
– Makes perceptive stylistic choices in
terms of linguistic, literary and visual
devices, demonstrating good awareness
of impact on an audience.
– Selects extensive relevant details and
examples to develop ideas with
precision.
– Produces texts that demonstrate
considerable personal engagement with
the creative process; demonstrates
considerable insight, imagination or
sensitivity and substantial exploration of
and critical reflection on new perspectives
and ideas.
– Makes thoughtful stylistic choices in
terms of linguistic, literary and visual
devices; good awareness of impact on an
audience.
– Selects sufficient relevant details and
examples to develop ideas with
precision.
– Produces texts that demonstrate
adequate personal engagement with the
creative process; demonstrates some
insight, imagination or sensitivity and
some exploration of and critical reflection
on new perspectives and ideas.
– Makes some stylistic choices in terms
of linguistic, literary and visual devices;
adequate awareness of impact on an
audience.
– Selects some relevant details and
examples to develop ideas.
Write answers that enhance and develop real or imagined experiences
or events using consistently effective technique, well-chosen details, and
well-structured event sequences.
i. Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation,
or observation, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and
introducing a narrator and/or characters; create a smooth
progression of experiences or events.
ii. Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build
on one another to create a coherent whole.
Incorporates 3 + facts or details that have not been mentioned
elsewhere in the story or in class for each place Odyssey
journeys to on his way home.
Write narratives that enhance and develop real or imagined
experiences or events using consistently effective technique, well-chosen
details, and well-structured event sequences.
i.
Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation,
or observation, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and
introducing a narrator and/or characters; create a smooth
progression of experiences or events.
ii. Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build
on one another to create a coherent whole.
Incorporates 3 facts or details that have not been mentioned
elsewhere in the text or in class for each place Odyssey visits on
his way home.
Write narratives that sometimes capture real or imagined experiences
or events using some effective technique, well-chosen details, and wellstructured event sequences.
i.
Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation,
or observation, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and
introducing a narrator and/or characters; create a smooth
progression of experiences or events.
ii. Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build
on one another to create a coherent whole.
Incorporates fewer than 3 facts or details that have not been
mentioned in class. Yu may only discuss some of the places
Odyssey visits on his journey home to Ithaca
.5 1.0
0
– Produces texts that demonstrate
limited personal engagement with the
creative process; demonstrates a limited
degree of insight, imagination or
sensitivity and minimal exploration of
and critical reflection on new perspectives
and ideas.
– Makes minimal stylistic choices in
terms of linguistic, literary and visual
devices; limited awareness of impact on
an audience.
– Selects few relevant details and
examples to develop ideas.
The work does not reach a standard described by the descriptors.