The Odyssey Worksheet | Crash Course The Odyssey | Teaching The Odyssey

Teaching The Odyssey to 9th graders and looking for fun activities for teaching The Odyssey?  Sick of boring lesson plans for The Odyssey? Check out this engaging The Odyssey worksheet to accompany the Crash Course Literature episode by John Green about Homer's epic poem.

This The Odyssey teaching resource has been created to pair with the Crash Course The Odyssey videos by John Green (season 2, episode 1).  The worksheet includes a student worksheet of scaffolded notes and a set of teacher notes to accompany the free YouTube videos. They’re great to use as part of pre-reading activities for The Odyssey or to review the novel.

The videos and worksheets 

• include a summary of The Odyssey by Homer 
• explain how The Odyssey relates to Homer’s The Illiad
• describes the historical background of The Odyssey
• explains genre conventions of epic poems and Greek heroes
• investigates themes such as the effects of war, heroism, and gender-based double standards of behavior

This Crash Course Literature worksheet makes teaching The Odyssey easy and fun because it is so flexible.  This teaching resource for The Odyssey can be used in so many ways, including

• as part of your pre-reading activities for The Odyssey
• to leave for a substitute lesson - no prep and less behavior follow-up for you because students are engaged
• as a homework task students won’t complain about
• to cover the text quickly in a time crunch 
• to cover the main ideas in The Odyssey quickly so you can have more time to do close readings of specific passages
• as an easy ‘catch-up’ task for students who have missed lots of class time while you’ve been  teaching The Odyssey
• as one of many The Odyssey activities on a choice board  
• as a The Odyssey introduction activity or review activity

You’ll love this The Odyssey worksheet because it is an engaging way to scaffold student note-taking for the Crash Course Literature video about the novel.  The worksheet helps students to keep track of the main information from the video while encouraging student ownership over their notes by enabling creativity.

Not only do the video and worksheet give students a summary of The Odyssey, but they are also the perfect print-and-go activity for the text.  So stop wondering how to teach The Odyssey, just load the Crash Course Literature The Odyssey video, print the worksheet, and enjoy teaching The Odyssey.

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