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| a scholar's model of an Ancient Greek boat CLICK ON IT TO ENLARGE IT |
DUE THIS MONDAY:
Based on your reading of the first four books (cantos) of The Odyssey, write an essay about the character Telemachus. Here are some suggestions you may wish to follow:
1. While reading have a pencil handy.
2. Underline or bracket passages you may want to use or return to, and write light pencil notes in the margins about what you think as you read.
3. Carefully read everything Telemachus says. (His words are within quotation marks.)
4. How does Telemachus respond to what he is told?
5. How is Telemachus as a son?
6. What does Telemachus' behavior in Ithaca
7. How has Telemachus been affected by his father's twenty year absence?
8. How does what Telemachus learns about his father Odysseus affect him?
9. What do 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 reveal about him?
10. Write descriptive statements (in sentences) about Telemachus, which you believe to be true.
11. Write down as many adjectives as you can which you believe describe Telemachus.
12. Where in the text, by book and by line number, is there evidence supporting your statements and adjectives? For example: ....." (IV, 290-301)
13. Cross out from 10 and 11 what you cannot find Homeric textual support for.
14. Select, use, and judiously postion meaningful quotations in your essay to support what you write about Telemachus. Use citations after every quotation, e.g., . . . . ." (IV, 290-301).
BE PREPARED ON MONDAY.
I really like the map of ancient Greece. It gives me an accurate picture in my head of how far away and how close to each city-state is to eachother and how their connection to one another. Also, it's interesting how Troy is all the way to the far right of the map where there is a huge body of water seperating them from the rest of Greece.
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