Greek Myth Comix TEACHER/CLASS Revision notes for Odyssey Books 9, 10, 19, 21 OCR GCSE

INTRODUCTORY AND USEFUL NOTES FOR TEACHING THE ODYSSEY SET BOOKS!

Students - please look for the STUDENT version which is priced lower for one print.

FOR TEACHERS:

Designed for GCSE Classical Civilisations Homeric World Odyssey study - a booklet of notes that will streamline your students' Odyssey revision and give them context for the set books in the wider poem. You can print this PDF for your whole class, repeatedly! 

(NB: this is the same as the student price version but with no email stamp and there are no printing restrictions, so this PDF at this price represents an infinite printing license.)

The Booklet contains:

- Structure of the plot

- Structure of the Odyssey, chronologically

- Overall details of the Odyssey in sections

- Breakdown of the text sections and set text

- Need to know: Descriptive techniques and how they work

- Need to know: Effective storytelling techniques and how and why they work

- Need to know: Themes of the text

- Setting the scene: Book 1’s opening lines: invoking the muse, exposition

- Comic helpers: comics that explain…

       o Xenia— hospitality

       o Nostos—the need to return home

       o Fate and Fortune—the reasons why things happen

       o Kudos and Aidos—reputation, both good and bad, and how you get it

       o Epithet—what is one and how does it work?

       o Formula (example: arming formula)

       o Simile—when something is ‘like’ or ‘as’ something else

- A full breakdown of the text, chapter by chapter, with emphasis on the set chapters

- Vocabulary for the set books (and a few others) and techniques

Good luck with your teaching!

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