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Distributed: 26 Oct. 2016

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Timeline:

Summarizations and Script Writing – Oct. 31st ; Dress Rehearsals – Nov. 9th

Performances beginning Nov. 14

Accruable Points:

A) Book _____ : Summarization(s) of Book(s) ______of the Odyssey — 50 points

B) Honors: Summarization(s) of Chapter(s) ______of Don Quixote— 50 points

C) Adventure(s) of Odysseus ______: Summarization of adventure(s) of Odysseus — 50 points

D) Drama Performance per creative adventure of Odysseus or Odysseus and Don Quixote — 100 points

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Objective; Reading for Meaning-Students will showcase ability to analyze and extend thinking, spiraling beyond rote, to surpass the literal text of the Odyssey and Don Quixote.

Directives:

1. Student chosen groups will compile and creatively provide/present a thorough summarization of assigned Book of the Odyssey.
2. Honors: Student chosen groups will compile and creatively provide/present a thorough summarization per assigned Chapter of Don Quixote.
3. Student chosen groups will compile and creatively provide/present a thorough summarization per assigned Adventure(s) of Odysseus.
4. Student chosen groups will create, compile and perform original script of an adventure that Odysseus did not experience. Odysseus’ new adventure should emulate a subliminal [hidden] theme of the epic poem, or bring to light the character of Odysseus that concurs with student chosen groups’ perspective and perception of Odysseus after reading specific text excerpts.
5. Honors: Student chosen groups will create, compile and perform original scrip of an adventure that Odysseus did not experience and one that Don Quixote did not experience, conjoining the two heroes within the realm of script in a display of creative, unique narrative expression. Odysseus’ and Don Quixote’s new adventure should emulate a subliminal [hidden] theme of the epic poem and the novel, or bring to light the character of Odysseus and Don Quixote that concurs with student chosen groups’ perspective and perception of Odysseus and Don Quixote after reading specific text excerpts.
6. Student chosen groups will provide MLA documentation of any research materials acquired per Odysseus’ initial adventures and Don Quixote. Works Cited will be submitted with script. Please find MLA assistance on page eight.
7. Student chosen groups will memorize lines, provide costumes, props, and any items that will enhance play’s outcome.
8. Student chosen groups will be given an entire class period to present:

A) Summarization of Book(s) of the Odyssey and Chapter(s) of Don Quixote

B) Adventure(s) of Odysseus

C) Original Drama

1. Students will discern beneficial purpose(s) of group work.
2. Students will hone time management, writing skills, critical thinking skills, and auditory skills.

BOOK I -- Drama Group One:

From the Odyssey

1. Island of Ismarus

2. Island of the Lotus - Eaters

First, Odysseus and his men arrive at Ismarus, the land of the Cicones. They sack the city, killing the men and taking the women and treasure as bounty. They are later attacked by the Cicones.
Second, Odysseus and his men arrive in the Land of the Lotus-eaters. Here, his men eat lotus flowers. The flowers cause the men to lose their desire to return home, so Odysseus must force them back to the ship.

From Don Quixote

Chapter I – Don Quixote located on website

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BOOK II -- Drama Group Two:

From the Odyssey

3. Island of Cyclops

4. Island of King Aeolus

Third, at the Cyclops' cave, Odysseus’s men escape being eaten because Odysseus blinds the one-eyed Cyclops, Polyphemus (son of Poseidon). Odysseus tricks the Cyclops by claiming that his name (Odysseus’s) is "No One." When Polyphemus screams, Odysseus says that "No One" is attacked him (the Cyclops), so Polyphemus’ fellow cyclops do not come to his rescue. As a result, Poseidon threatens Odysseus with much suffering and the ultimate loss of his men.

Fourth, King Aeolus gives Odysseus and his men a place to stay for about a month. Upon their departure, Aeolus puts winds in a bag and gives the bag to Odysseus, instructing him not to open it. The crew get close to Ithaca, but while Odysseus sleeps, they open the bag of winds and are flown back toward Aeolia.

From Don Quixote

Chapter II and III – Don Quixote located on website

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BOOK III -- Drama Group Three:

From the Odyssey

5. Island of Laestrygonians

6. Island of Circe

Fifth, at the Land of the Laestrygonians, giant cannibals eat all but one of Odysseus' ships.
Sixth, at Aeaea, the enchantress Circe turns Odysseus's scouting party into pigs. Hermes, the messenger of the gods, gives Odysseus an herb against a similar fate. Odysseus sleeps with Circe and convinces her to turn the pigs back into men. She does so, but only after they have stayed on her island for a year. Circe tells Odysseus that he must go see Tiresias in the Underworld before continuing his journey.

From Don Quixote

Chapter IV – Don Quixote located on website

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BOOK IV -- Drama Group Four:

From the Odyssey

7. Underworld

Seventh, Odysseus meets with the blind prophet Tiresias in the Underworld. He encounters lost family and friends. Tiresias warns Odysseus of the dangers that lie ahead.

From Don Quixote

Chapter V and VI – Don Quixote located on website

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BOOK V -- Drama Group Five:

From the Odyssey

8. Island of Sirens

Eighth, Odysseus and his men sail past the Sirens, who sing songs to lure passing crews and ships to their deaths. Odysseus orders his men to fill their ears with wax and to tie him to the mast of the ship so that he may hear the songs, but will not be able to succumb to their seduction.

From Don Quixote

Chapter VII – Don Quixote located on website

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BOOK VI and VII -- Drama Group Six:

From the Odyssey

9. Scylla and Charybdis

10. Island of the Sun

Ninth, Odysseus must choose between sailing by either Scylla, (pronounced Silla) a six-headed monster, or Charybdis (pronounced Car ib dis), a giant whirlpool. Taking Circe's advice, Odysseus sails by Scylla, who devours only six of his men, which allowed Odysseus and his crew to pass.
Tenth, Odysseus goes to Thrinacia (pronounced Thrin a sia or Thirn a kea), the home of the sacred cattle. Before docking the ship, he forces his men to swear an oath, forbidding them from eating the cattle. However, after the food supply depletes, the men begin to kill and eat the sacred cattle. Angered, the gods punish Odysseus and his men. After this adventure, Odysseus is the last man standing and must float away on the branch of a fig tree, for his men and ship were all destroyed by the gods.

From Don Quixote

Chapter VIII – Don Quixote located on website

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BOOK VIII -- Drama Group Seven:

From the Odyssey

11. Island of Calypso

12. Island of Scheria and Odysseus kills the suitors

Eleventh, Odysseus goes to Ogygia (pronounced Oh-GIDG-ah or O gig g ah ), home of Calypso. Calypso keeps Odysseus captive for seven years, giving him a raft but it is soon destroyed by Poseidon, who is still angry with him because of the death of his cyclops son.
Twelfth, Odysseus floats to Scheria (pronounced Scare-e-uh), where he is taken in by the princess and eventually the king and queen. Odysseus tells the king and queen his story, and they agree to help him, providing him with one of their best ships to return to Ithaca. Odysseus finally returns home only to find that his house has been invaded by suitors, vying for his wife. Odysseus must prove himself and soon, after his victory against the suitors, must show his identity.
From Don Quixote

Chapter IX and X – Don Quixote located on website

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STEP ONE:

Every script should consider what happens before Odysseus begins to tell his tale to thePhaeacian King and Queen, Alcinoüs and Aretē, respectively, in Book VIII.

At the onset of the Trojan War, Athena and Poseidon helped the Greeks [Akhaians—Odysseus, Nestor, Agamemnon, Menelaus]; however, the Greeks’ victory was also the cause of their destruction. Cassandra, one of the daughters of king Priam, was a prophetess. She warned the Trojans that the Greeks were hidden inside the wooden horse, but they didn't believe her. When the Greeks sacked the city, Cassandra went to the Temple of Athena, seized the cult statue of the goddess and implored Athena’s protection. Ajax the Lesser had rushed into the temple of Athena in the Homer’s Illiad, where Cassandra had taken refuge; she was embracing the statue of the goddess in supplication (appeal; petition; prayer). Ajax violently dragged her away to the other captives. According to some writers, he even assaulted Cassandra inside the temple. Odysseus, at least, accused him of this crime, and Ajax was to be stoned to death, but saved himself by establishing his innocence with an oath. The whole charge was sometimes said to have been an invention of Agamemnon [Menelaus’s brother], who wanted to have Cassandra for himself. Whether or not the accusation that Ajax assaulted Cassandra was true, Athena still had cause to be indignant, as Ajax had dragged a supplicant (petitioner) from her temple. According to the Bibliotheca (of the Bible; a collection of written books), no one was aware that Ajax had assualted Cassandra, until Calchas, the Greek seer, warned the Greeks that Athena was furious at the treatment of her priestess and she would destroy the Greek ships if they didn't kill Ajax the Lesser, immediately. Despite this warning, Ajax managed to hide in the altar of an unnamed deity where the Greeks, fearing divine retribution should they kill him and destroy the altar, allowed him to live. When the Greeks left without killing Ajax, , Athena, despite their sacrifices, became so angry that she persuaded Zeus (some manuscripts do not include Zeus in Athena’s rant against the Greeks)and her uncle Poseidon to send a storm that sank many of the Greek ships. The wrath of Athena was without limits. She sought Poseidon, and said: “ I ask your help for my revenge!” she said. “Give to the Greeks a very bitter return to Greece. Shall the waters wave in wild turmoil under their ships! Shall the dead flood the bays and pile on the beaches and on the reefs!”Athena took revenge on all of the Akhaians (Greeks), including Odysseus. Poseidon promptly agreed to fulfill the wish of Athena. The terrible storm that fell over the Greek fleet returning to Greece destroyed the great majority of the ships. Odysseus and his crew were blown off course, which started a decade-long series of adventures for the great Greek chief.In the Odyssey Athena recanted her decision, and attempted to help Odysseus return home to Ithaka.

The war and his troubles at sea kept Odysseus away from his home, Ithaca, for twenty years. In his absence, his son, Telemachus, grew into a man, and his wife, Penelope, was besieged by suitors who assumed Odysseus was dead. Penelope remained faithful to Odysseus, but the suitors feasted at her house all day and lived off her supplies. She held them off by promising to marry after she finished weaving a shroud for Laertes, Odysseus’s father. Every night she secretly undid the day’s work, leaving the job perpetually unfinished. One day, near the end of Odysseus’s voyage, the suitors discovered Penelope’s ruse and became more dangerously insistent.

Athena’s anger subsided and her old affection for Odysseus renewed, so she decided to set things right. While Poseidon, still angry with Odysseus, was away from Olympus, she convinced the other gods to help Odysseus return home. In disguise in Ithaca, Athena convinced Telemachus to search for his father. Telemachus went to Pylos, the home of Nestor, who sentTelemachus to Menelaus in Sparta. Menelaus said that he {Menelaus] captured Proteus, the shape-shifting sea god, and Proteus reported that Odysseus was being held a prisoner of love by the sea nymph Calypso.

Hermes was sent to Calypso and relayed Zeus’s command that Odysseus be allowed to leave Ogygia, Calypso’s lair. Odysseus set sail on a makeshift raft and was in sight of land when Poseidon caught sight of him, unleashing a storm that again wrecked the homesick Greek. The kind goddess Ino swept down and gave Odysseus her veil, protecting him from harm in the water. After two days of swimming, Odysseus reached the land of the Phaeacians and their kind king, Alcinoüs. The king’s daughter, Nausicaä, found Odysseus, naked and filthy from sleeping on the ground, and led him to the king. Received warmly, Odysseus told the story of his wanderings, his adventures.

SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on Mythology.” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. 2007. Web. 1 Oct. 2013.

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STEP TWO-A: NOTE that MLA 7 is utilized to create Works Cited entries.

Create a Works Cited entry for each source utilized while researching assigned adventures per the Odysseyand Don Quixote (honors).

Odysseytext utilized in class—MLA 7 is as follows:

Homer. Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1998. PAGE NUMBERS ARE PLACED NEXT—UTILIZE THE TEXTS IN CLASS FOR SPECIFIC PAGE NUMBERS. Print.

Don Quixote text utilized in class-MLA 7 is as follows:

Saavedra, Miguel De Cervantes. "Don Quixote." Project Gutenberg. David Widger, 27 July 2004. Web. 26 Oct. 2016.

STEP TWO-B:Works Cited

1)Open Noodletools

2)Open up a NEWPROJECT

3)Name the project “Odyssey Script”

4)Select Works Cited to commence placing information from sources into Noodletools in order to generate a Works Cited

5)How many Works Cited entries must appear on the Works Cited? At LEAST TWO (2), text of Odyssey and Don Quixote.

STEP TWO-C: What information should be posted in Noodletools to assist in generating additional MLA 7 Works Cited sources? See website tab MLA PROTOCOL for assistance.

The following are MLA 7 examples that might be commonly sourced:

How do I cite a YouTube video in MLA 7?

The MLA does not specifically address how to cite a YouTube video. This has, it appears, led to some confusion as to the best method for citing YouTube videos in MLA. Based on MLA standards for other media formats, the following format is the most acceptable for citing YouTube videos:

Author’s Name or Poster’s Username. “Title of Image or Video.” Media TypeText. Name of Website. Name of Website’s Publisher, date of posting. Medium. date retrieved.

(NOTE THAT THIS ENTRY AND ALL OTHER SUBSEQUENT ENTRIES ARE DOUBLE SPACED AND UTILIZE HANGING INDENTATION—THE SECOND LINE OF THE CITE IS INDENTED ONE TAB, OR 5 SPACES)

EXAMPLE: Shimabukuro, Jake. "Ukulele Weeps by Jake Shimabukuro." Online video clip.
YouTube. YouTube, 22 Apr. 2006. Web. 9 Sept. 2010.

How do I cite a website in MLA 7?

Basic Style for Citations of Electronic Sources (Including Online Databases):

Here are some common features you should try and find before citing electronic sources in MLA style:

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• Author and/or editor names (if available)
• Article name in quotation marks (if applicable)
• Title of the Website, project, or book in italics. (Remember that some Print publications have Web publications with slightly different names. They may, for example, include the additional information or otherwise modified information, like domain names [e.g. .com or .net].)
• Any version numbers available, including revisions, posting dates, volumes, or issue numbers.
• Publisher information, including the publisher name and publishing date.
• Take note of any page numbers (if available).
• Medium of publication.
• Date you accessed the material.
• URL (if required, or for your own personal reference; MLA does not require a URL).

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Citing an Entire Web Site in MLA 7

It is necessary to list your date of access because web postings are often updated, and information available on one date may no longer be available later. If a URL is required or you chose to include one, be sure to include the complete address for the site. (Note: The following examples do not include a URL because MLA no longer requires a URL to be included.)

Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date is given.

Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access.