(Above) I told this thinking map, because it tells the whole story of The Odyssey. It goes from beginning to end of everything that happens in The Odyssey, which is a good thing to have in a thinking map AKA flow map. I really enjoyed the story and reading The Odyssey, so this thinking that is a very good thing to look at to understand the main idea.
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(Below) These questions are from the Socratic seminar about the Odyssey which I created as discussion director. These questions are all about what happens in The Odyssey and how people would handle the situation. They are questions that are very outreaching when it comes to ideas, because is what they know and they think about the situations at hand in the Odyssey.
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1. What would you do if you landed on the Cyclops island?
2. Come up with your own way to defeat the Cyclops.
3. How would you escape the cyclops lair if there were no sheep?
4. Why does Circe turn men into pigs?
5. Who would you talk to if you went to the land of the dead? Why or why not.
6. Why do the Siren’s songs make people desire to approach them?
7. How do you think they felt, when they approached Charybdis and Scylla?
8. What would you do if your whole crew started eating the sun god’s oxen?
9. What do you think Odysseus felt like when Athena came up to him in the middle of the night?
10. Would you have accepted hospitality from the old man who barely owns anything?
2. Come up with your own way to defeat the Cyclops.
3. How would you escape the cyclops lair if there were no sheep?
4. Why does Circe turn men into pigs?
5. Who would you talk to if you went to the land of the dead? Why or why not.
6. Why do the Siren’s songs make people desire to approach them?
7. How do you think they felt, when they approached Charybdis and Scylla?
8. What would you do if your whole crew started eating the sun god’s oxen?
9. What do you think Odysseus felt like when Athena came up to him in the middle of the night?
10. Would you have accepted hospitality from the old man who barely owns anything?