The Odyssey Ultimate Bundle / 27 resources / 130 pages / 200 questions

In preparing to teach freshman for the first time in many years, I cracked into our textbook to find an inaccessible and incomplete version of Homer's The Odyssey. Knowing that I would need to teach The Odyssey as my first unit, I got to work putting together a side-by-side version of The Odyssey with text on the left and guiding questions and activities on the right.

I also included prompts for students to Notice and Note specific text details and moves. That does mean I have changed some words, eliminated some gods, and deleted some portions. But that also means I have created questions and activities to guide students through the entire text. These questions and activities cover a variety of skills, including making inferences, connections, and predictions. I included content-specific questions about plot structure, characterization, and basic figurative language.

But I knew I would also need paired texts to use with The Odyssey. That's where the synthesis bundle comes in! This bundle includes 9 poems across 40+ pages. Each poem comes with 5+ multiple choice questions and activities! The questions cover nearly every CCSS ELA standard, including inference, characterization, figurative language, tone, context clues, point of view, and allusion. The bundle also includes 15 additional synthesis prompts and a rubric! These resources are available in both .pdf and a Google Slides.

Plus, this resource also includes my Crash Course Literature: The Odyssey Listening Guide. This tool is a good way to help students practice active listening skills.

In addition, I have designed 16 journal prompts specific to The Odyssey. These prompts help students connect the poem to their own lives and to the real world!

Over the years, I have also added an anticipation guide, listening guide for the Ted-ed Everything You Need to Know to Read Homer's Odyssey, and a unit planner/pacing guide.

To buy The Odyssey Bundle and The Odyssey Synthesis Bundle with the journal prompts and listening guides separately would cost $58.00, but buying them together is only $48.99. This would be the same as getting 5 of the poems for FREE! That takes half the price off The Odyssey Synthesis Bundle!

The Odyssey Bundle Includes 50+ pages and 150+ questions

*2 bonus activities*

Part 1: The Poet Prays

Part 2: Calypso

Part 3: Odysseys Speaks/Lotus Eaters

Part 4: Cyclops

Part 5: Circe

Part 6: Land of the Dead

Part 7: Circe's Warning

Part 8: Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis

Part 9: Helios' Blessed Cattle

Part 10: Odysseus' Homecoming

Part 11: Penelope's Suitors

Part 12: Penelope

Part 13: The Contest

Part 14: Odysseus' Revenge

Part 15: Penelope's Test

The Odyssey Synthesis Bundle includes:

*15 bonus synthesis prompts and writing rubric*

-"Ithaka" by C.P. Cavafy

-"Odysseus" by W.S. Merwin

-"Calypso" by Suzanne Vega

-"Penelope" by Dorothy Parker

-"Siren Song" by Margaret Atwood

-"Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

-"Penelope to Ulysses" by Meredith Schwartz

-"The Cyclops in the Ocean" by Nikki Giovanni

-"An Ancient Gesture" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Since these are Google resources, when you purchase this resource, TPT will create a file in your Google Drive where you will find the fillable .pdf, Google Forms, and Google Slides.

***This is a HUGE bundle, so I totally understand if you don't need everything I've included here. That's why Moore English also offers Custom Bundles. With Custom Bundles, you can choose which short stories you would like to teach and design the bundle of your dreams! Read more here.***

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