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World Literature

World Literature. Wednesday November 2 Thursday November 3. Journal Prompt. Have you ever been to a funeral/memorial service? How did it make you feel and why?

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World Literature

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  1. World Literature Wednesday November 2 Thursday November 3

  2. Journal Prompt • Have you ever been to a funeral/memorial service? How did it make you feel and why? • If you have never been to a funeral, what are your expectations for one? Do you think you would find it important to go or would you rather grieve/honor a loved one another way

  3. Today’s Objectives • To analyze the descent stage of the hero’s journey for Odysseus • 2 Pre-Reading strategies • Make a personal connection to literature • Practice close reading by examining a specific section of the text to summarizing before reading the text as a whole

  4. Book 10? • Odysseus leaves the land of the Kyklopes • Divine assistance: He is given a bag of wind to help him sail on, but his shipmates become jealous and tear it open, causing a storm. • Land of Giants: more of his men are eaten, Odysseus’s ship alone escapes • Meets up with beautiful witch/goddess Circe/Kirke-after unpleasantness, he becomes her lover and hangs around for a year • Finally they leave, but Kirke advises them they must go through Hades, the realm of the dead to get home

  5. Groups

  6. PreReading: In your groups • Together, read your assigned lines. • Determine what is learned in the conversation with the dead • do they ask anything of Odysseus? • Do they give him information? • Do they give him advice/prediction? • Choose people to read each character’s lines (Odysseus is narrator of both his and the dead) • Those who do not read will summarize the important points for the class

  7. Book 11: A Gathering of Shades • Odysseus must journey to Hades to seek advice from Tiresias, a dead prophet. • Consider what information Odysseus gets from the inhabitants of Hades • Odyssey Hero’s Journey Illustrations are available at the front if you want to do one today

  8. The women of lines 260-386 • These are ALLUSIONS that Homer’s audience would immediately recognize • Hears the stories of their lives and deaths • Epikaste(Jocaste) wife and mother of Oedipus • Elkmene, mother of Herakles (Hecules) • And many, many more

  9. Evaluate the strategy: • How did thinking and talking about your own experiences with funerals help you in understanding Odysseus as meets the dead? • Compare today’s reading with previous days where Mrs. deVidal read aloud. Did you understand more/less/the same? • Which strategy do you think helped you the most.

  10. Departure • TheCall • Hero receives a call to go on an adventure and often initially refuses • Luke Skywalker meets Obi Wan but doesn’t get that he is also a Jedi • Harry Potter receives the letter that says he is a wizard and doesn’t believe it at first • Something happens that forces the character to accept the call • Luke Skywalker’s aunt and uncle are killed, forcing him to go with Obi Wan • For Harry, Hagrid shows up on his 11th birthday to take him to Hogwarts • Crossing the Threshold • Moving from the known to the unknown • Luke Skywalker goes with Obi Wan to the bar with all the strange creatures • Harry Potter leaves the muggle world to go to Hogwarts • Threshold guardians (obstacles) • Storm Troopers • Fluffy, Draco, etc. • Mentors and helpers • Obi Wan, R2D2, C3PO for Luke • Dumbledore, Hagrid, Ron, Hermione, etc. for Harry

  11. Initiation and Transformation • The Challenges and Trials • progressing in difficulty • Tempters/tricksters make things tough • Descent into Darkness-actual or metaphorical Hell • The biggest challenge-must be faced alone, the hero has to go on without helpers or mentor • Obi Wan dies and Luke has to destroy the death star alone • Harry faces Voldemort by himself (multiple times in the series) • Death and rebirth-spiritual or actual • Luke has a spiritual rebirth. He finds the force. • Harry dies then comes back to life. • Revelation and Reconciliation • Facing fear and flaw • A new self or sense of self • Reconciles with others in life • Luke finds the force, starts to believe he’s a Jedi, finds out who is father is • Harry accepts his role in the prophecy and faces his fear of death but also realizes he has a choice in his destiny

  12. Analyze the hero’s journey • In your journal, consider where Odysseus is on his hero’s journey (you may work with a partner, but both have this in your journal • Give at least 2 examples (from notes of the text of specific parts of his departure (Call, refusal, crossing the threshold) • Give at least 3 examples of Initiation and Transformation (Challenge and Trials< Descent) • When using the text, use line numbers

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