Description

Looking for a creative way to pair Homer’s The Odyssey with the epic poem or the film adaptation? This literary project can be used alongside The Odyssey and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey to help students explore characters, events, conflicts, choices, themes, and the journey from Troy to Ithaca.

Create the Ultimate Odyssey Tour!

14 Stops • 20 Years • 1 Epic Journey

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Take The Odyssey on tour with this engaging, creative literary project designed to bring Homer’s epic journey to life!

With Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film adaptation of The Odyssey now bringing Homer’s epic to a new generation of audiences, this tour book makes a perfect companion to the novel/epic poem and Nolan’s film adaptation.

As students travel with Odysseus from Troy to Ithaca, they document the people he meets, the challenges he faces, the choices he makes, and the lessons he learns along the way. The unique concert-tour format gives students a creative way to demonstrate their understanding of The Odyssey while practicing important literary analysis skills.

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Students visit 14 stops on Odysseus’s epic journey, including the Land of the Cicones, the Lotus-Eaters, the Cyclopes, Aeolus’s island, the Laestrygonians, Circe’s island, the Underworld, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Helios’s island, Calypso’s island, the Phaeacians, and Ithaca.

At each tour stop, students explore characters, conflicts, important events, choices, consequences, themes, and lessons from the text through a collection of creative activities.

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What’s Included:

15-Page Student Tour Book

• Cover
• 14 individual tour-stop pages
• Final Tour Awards page

Student Sample / Teacher Model

• Completed sample pages provide students with a model for the project
• Can also serve as a teacher reference or key where appropriate

Student Directions

• Illustrated directions for the static elements on each page

Teacher Directions

• Clear, step-by-step directions for introducing and completing the project

Scoring Rubric

• Ready-to-use rubric for assessing student understanding, textual evidence, completion, creativity, and presentation

Bonus: Page to Screen Short Essay Question

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A Creative Way to Explore The Odyssey

This project gives students an opportunity to show what they understand about the text in a creative and meaningful way. Instead of simply answering traditional comprehension questions, students become the creators of an Odyssey tour book as they follow Odysseus’s journey across the Mediterranean.

The project can be used while reading, after completing the epic, or as a culminating literary project. It can also provide a fun framework for discussing similarities and differences between Homer’s Odyssey and Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation.

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Perfect For:

✔ Grades 7–10

✔ Middle & High School ELA

✔ The Odyssey Companion

✔ Movie Companion for: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

✔ Greek Mythology Units

✔ Literary Analysis

✔ Creative Literary Projects

✔ Culminating Activities

✔ End-of-Unit Projects

✔ Text-to-Film Connections

✔ Independent, Partner, or Small-Group Work

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Send your students on the ultimate literary adventure!

Troy → The Mediterranean → Ithaca

14 Stops. 20 Years. 1 Epic Journey.

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