Notes – from Monday
1. Ithaca and Troy
1. Menelaus and Agamemnon take Odysseus to fight in Troy.
2. Athena wants Odysseus to be immortal
3. Achilles and Odysseus fight and Achilles dies in year 7
4. Odysseus builds the Trojan Horse
5. Divine Intervention – Poseidon kills Lancoon with a sea
serpent to protect the Greeks in the Trojan Horse
6. Hubris – Odysseus says he does not need the Gods. This
angers Poseidon.
2. Ismarus – skip
3. Lotus Eaters – skip
Vocabulary
 Ego Inflation -
Formative
 Part 1 of The Odyssey – October, 14, 2014
a. Athena
b.Achilles and Athena
c. Telemachos
d.Telemachos and Penelope
a.Athena
b. Lancoon
c.Poseidon
d.King Priam
a. He will not be granted divine
intervention
b. He will be forever lost at sea
c. He will no longer be king
d. He will become mortal
a. The Greeks lost the war
b. Odysseus made the Trojan
Horse
c. Odysseus displays hubris
d. Athena helps Odysseus
Notes – for Tuesday
4. Cyclops
1.
Odysseus and his men
2. Polyphemos
3. Divine Intervention –
4. Hubris 5. Aeolis
1.
Aeolis
2. Odysseus
3. Divine Intervention –
6. Laestrygoinans – skip
7. Circe
1.
Odysseus’ men
2. Circe
3. Odysseus
4. Divine Intervention -
Vocabulary

Underworld, Hades
Formative
 Part 2 of The Odyssey – October, 15, 2014
a. Son of Poseidon
b. God of the sea
c. King of Sparta
d. Achilles’ cousin
a. Sea
b. Love
c. War
d. Wind
a. Odysseus traps Polyphemos
in the cave
b. Odysseus says his name is
“Nobody”
c. Odysseus kills Polyphemos
d. Odysseus tells Polyphemos he
is friends with Poseidon
a. Odysseus can use it to kill
enemies
b. Odysseus can give it to the gods
for help
c. Odysseus can use it to travel
home
d. Odysseus can use it to make a
whirlpool
a. She tortures Odysseus
b. She alters time
c. She send Odysseus home
d. She marries Odysseus
Notebook check
 Take out your movie notes from
yesterday.
 As I check your notes, you may use
them to complete the formative.
 You will have 5 minutes.
Notes
–
from
Tuesday
4. Cyclops
1.
2.
3.
4.
Aeolis
5.
1.
2.
3.
6.
7.
Odysseus and his men find a cave with food which is the home of the
cyclops (Polyphemos)
Polyphemos eats Odysseus’ men
Divine Intervention – Polyphemos prays to his father, Poseidon, to
avenge him
Hubris - After blinding and defeating the cyclops, Odysseus reveals
his real name
Aeolis is the god of wind
Odysseus is stranded from Ithaca when his men open the bag of
wind
Divine Intervention – Aeolis gets revenge on Poseidon by giving a bag
of wind to help get Odysseus home
Laestrygoinans – skip
Circe
1.
2.
3.
4.
Odysseus’ men are turned into animals by Circe
Circe uses the lotus flower to weaken the men and hold them captive
Odysseus realizes he has been on her island for 5 years
Divine Intervention – Hermes gives a plant to Odysseus to help him
climb the mountain to reach Circe
Notes – for Wednesday
8. The Underworld
1. Tiresias
2. Anticlea (Odysseus’ mother)
9. Sirens – skip
10. Scylla
1. Odysseus and his men
11. Charybdis
1. Odysseus and his men
12. Sun God/Cattle – skip
13. Calypso –
1. Odysseus
2. Calypso
3. Divine Intervention - Hermes
Formative
 Part 3 of The Odyssey – October, 16, 2014
a. Antinoos
b. Poseidon
c. Telemachos
d. Lancoon
a. He tells him he is fated to die
b. He tells him how to get back to
Ithaca
c. He says that Odysseus will be
unable to communicate with
the dead
d. He says Penelope has
remarried
a. She weaves a burial
shroud
b. She undoes the burial
shroud each night
c. She hides from Antinoos
d. She poisons Antinoos
a. She marries Odysseus
b. She holds Odysseus
captive
c. She shows Odysseus how
to get home
d. She kills Odysseus’ men
a. She drowns herself
b. She sails to find Odysseus
c. She uses divine
intervention to get
Odysseus home
d. Antinoos kills her
Notes – for Wednesday
The Underworld
8.
1.
2.
Tiresias tells Odysseus how to make it through Scylla and
Charybdis to get back home
Anticlea (Odysseus’ mother) tells Odysseus to get back home
because his home is being invaded and Penelope is still waiting
9. Sirens – skip
10. Scylla
1.
Odysseus and his men are attacked by Scylla, some of the men
die
11. Charybdis
1.
Odysseus and his men fall into the whirlpool of Charybdis and
everyone dies except Odysseus
12. Sun God/Cattle – skip
13. Calypso –
1.
Odysseus is held captive on Calypso’s Island for 2 years
2.
Calypso offers to make Odysseus immortal if he stays with her
3.
Divine Intervention – Hermes tells Calypso she must let
Odysseus go (double standards)
Notes – for Thursday
14. The Phaeacians
1. King Alcinous –
2. Odysseus –
15. Ithaca
1. Odysseus 2. Telemachos 3. Penelope 4. Antinoos 5. Divine Intervention - Athena
Vocabulary
 Interpret, inference, infer
Formative
 Part 4 of The Odyssey – October, 17, 2014
a. Kill the suitors
b. Find Odysseus
c. Find a suitor for his
mother
d. Become King of Ithaca
a. She can live with Odysseus
forever
b. She can become Queen of
Ithaca
c. She must let Odysseus leave
d. She must kill Odysseus
a. Poseidon
b. Calypso
c. Telemachos
d. The Phaeacians
a. as Achilles
b. as an old man
c. as Telemachos
d. as a woman
a. Odysseus is the only one who
can string his bow
b. It is a good weapon to use to
kill Antinoos
c. None of the other men can
string a bow
d. Antinoos is the most skilled at
aiming the bow