YOU CAN ONLY USE Fagles translation of The Odyssey WHICH I WILL ATTACH for part 1. Also see the other attachments I attach for guidelines on how to quote properly and the leadership rubric
Part 1: ANSWER THE 2 PARTS BELOW IN 400 WORDS
DB Forum: In the short interval that Eumaeus is away, Odysseus must not only convince his son Telemachus that he is his father, but prepare a young man who has never fought in a battle to join him in fighting 108 seasoned warriors who want nothing more than to kill both father and son so they can seize the kingdom.
Part 1: Using the Fagles translation of The Odyssey, pages 346–48, explain how Odysseus prepares Telemachus for their upcoming confrontation with the 108 suitors. Include at least one quotation in your post to support your observation. Please refer to the “Quick Study for Quotations” link below the rubric for help with quotation formats.
Part 2: In giving Telemachus instructions to fight the suitors, what leadership qualities does Odysseus demonstrate? Please refer to the “Leadership Rubric” link below the rubric to assess Odysseus’ leadership qualities.
Guidelines:
• For help with quotation formatting, please click the link below, “Quick Study for Quotations.”
• Remember that we use present-tense verbs to describe actions that we see unfold before us in the text. Use past-tense verbs to describe actions that happen before the story begins (e.g., Odysseus kills [present-tense verb since we see the action] the suitors because they had abused [action that happened in the past] his family and household servants for nearly 4 years and plotted to kill Telemachus).
Review:
In Book 16, Odysseus returns secretly to Ithaca via the Phaeacians’ magic ship after a 20-year absence (10 years fighting at Troy and 10 years trying to get back to Ithaca). On the shore, Athena welcomes Odysseus, confirming that he has indeed landed on Ithaca. She helps him to hide his Phaeacian gifts in a cave, disguises him as an old beggar, warns him not to reveal his identity to anyone, and assures him that great suffering from the suitors awaits him at his palace. Odysseus takes refuge in Eumaeus’ hut, gathering as much information as he can about the situation on Ithaca.
Two days after his father’s secret arrival, Telemachus returns to Ithaca, having completed his 35-day journey visiting King Nestor at Pylos and King Menelaus at Sparta. With Mentor’s (Athena’s) help, he has evaded the suitors lurking in their ship off the Ithacan coast, hoping to intercept his ship and kill him. Rather than going to the palace to see his mother, Telemachus goes straight to Eumaeus’ hut, where he encounters an old beggar.
When Eumaeus leaves to deliver a swine to the palace for the suitors’ banquet and to give Penelope the message that Telemachus is home, Odysseus, at Athena’s prompting, sheds his beggar’s disguise and identifies himself to his startled son. For a few minutes Telemachus stares at his father in disbelief, denying that this is true. Finally, Odysseus convinces Telemachus that he truly is his father. After weeping in each other arms, the two devise a plan to defeat the suitors.
Part 2: 2 paragraphs
M3 Blog (Mini-Research Project with 2 Sources)
Blog Topics: We’ve been reading about a fascinating Ancient Greek culture, so writing a blog gives you a chance to research a topic that interests you. You might want to know more about Athena, Hermes, Zeus, Helen, Menelaus, Troy, Pylos, Sparta, sports, Greek Olympics, education, food, trade, ships, Greek weddings, Greek men, Greek women, transportation, occupations, life spans, agriculture, and the like. You need to find only two articles on your topic. Summarize each article in a paragraph. Please follow the guidelines below.
Researching the Blog:
Make sure your article is from a reliable source. Also, avoid using Wikipedia or other online summaries such as Spark Notes or Shmoop as a research tool. Do not include information from the text that we already know. If you can’t find much data on your topic, it’s best to change topics. Your objective is to learn something new about the culture we are studying.
Writing the Blog: (Two parts: Citations and Works Cited)
1. Citations: Start your first sentence of each paragraph by identifying the author and title of your article. If you do this, no reference note is required at the end of the sentence. Should the author’s name not be given, start with the title of the article. You just need (1) the author’s name and/or (2) the title of the article. We put website titles in the Works Cited entry.
a. Summarizing your article means using your own words to convey the essence of a source, using just enough information to record the points you want to emphasize. If you include some of the author’s words, enclose them in quotation marks.
2. Works Cited: In English and humanities classes, we use the MLA (Modern Language Association) system for documenting sources, so please do not use the APA system. The Works Cited is the section at the end of your blog where we put information about each article and source links or URLs for the articles.
A. Writing the Works Cited Entry: A possible seven (7) items
1. Start with the author’s last name, then first name followed by a period. (Brown, James)
Make sure to alphabetize the two authors’ names.
2. The title of the article in quotation marks followed by a period follows.
3. The website title is italicized and followed by a comma.
4. The sponsor of the website is followed by a comma.
5. The date of the article should be written in this order: day month year (14 May
2021) followed by a comma. If your article does not have a date, then insert
the access date after the URL.
6. The URL is the link to the article. Start the URL with just the “www.”
7. Insert an Access Date if your article does not have a date. Example.
www………….. Accessed 15 Sept. 2021.
B. Works Cited Format
1. Make sure the first line is flush with the left margin.
2. Indent the second and subsequent lines of each entry by five spaces so that your first line
is the most prominent. This will distinguish each entry so that no numbers or bullets are necessary.
Student Blog Model (Citations are highlighted in aqua; Access date in the Works Cited is highlighted in orange.
Ancient Greek History
In his article, “Ancient Greece,” Joshua J. Mark describes Greece’s history. He explains how in the Greek language, Greece is known as “Hellas”or “Ellada.” The name “Hellas” derives from the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha. These mythical characters appear in Ovid’s tale of the Great Flood. Ovid was one of the most prolific writers of the early Roman Empire. Deucalion was the son of the fire-bringing Titan Prometheus. Deucalion was the savior of the human race from the Great Flood like Noah from the biblical tale. In the Great Flood, he and his wife Pyrrha repopulate Greece after the floodwaters have receded by casting stones which become people, the first being their son Hellen.
In a different article entitled, “Ancient Greece,” we learn that people lived scattered throughout Greece in small farming villages. They developed individual governments that governed their citizens according to some sort of constitution or set of laws. They raised armies and collected taxes as well. Every one of these city-states was said to be protected by a particular god or goddess. Most overthrew their hereditary kings until they were ruled by a small number of wealthy aristocrats. These people monopolized political power and the best farmland. Some even claimed to be descended from the Greek gods. This caused conflict between the nobles and the common people for a very long time.
Works Cited
“Ancient Greece.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 5 Mar. 2010,
www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/ancient-greece.
Mark, Joshua J. “Ancient Greece.” Ancient History Encyclopedia,
www.ancient.eu/greece/. Accessed 15 Sept. 2020.
*Typing Tip: To indent 5 spaces for the 2nd and 3rd lines of each Works Cited entry, click RETURN/SHIFT at the end of the first line of each entry and then use the space bar to space in 5 spaces. Tabbing doesn’t work here.
