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Tuesday 16 th March 2021 Odysseus Challenge: Can you improve the paragraph using adjectives and L. O: To understand the myth of Odysseus and the Cyclops. ambitious punctuation?

Tuesday 16 th March 2021 Odysseus Imagine that you have just finished fighting in the Trojan War. Describe how you would be feeling. Include ‘because’ and ‘in addition’ to your explanation. Challenge: Can you include a simile to describe how you would be feeling? L. O: To understand the myth of Odysseus and the Cyclops.

Tuesday 16 th March 2021 Odysseus 1. What does the word ‘perils’ suggest about their journey? 2. Why did Odysseus choose to go the island with the bleating goats? L. O: To understand the myth of Odysseus and the Cyclops. Challenge: Can you spot the grammar error in paragraph 2 and correct it? Explain why you made the correction.

Tuesday 16 th March 2021 Odysseus The sight of him brought the Greeks to fullest attention. He was as big as a barn, with a single glaring eye in the middle of his forehead. He was one of the Cyclopes, giant blacksmiths who had built Olympus for the gods. This particular Cyclops was named Polyphemus. He and his neighbors lived like hermits with their flocks. If the Greeks were shocked, Polyphemus was pleasantly surprised. For here before him at his own hearth was a treat that would nicely vary his diet. Taking care to roll a boulder into the mouth of the cave—a stone so huge that even a full crew of heroes could not stir it—he promptly snatched up the nearest two of Odysseus’s men, bashed out their brains on the floor and popped them into his mouth. Then with a belch he curled up in a corner and drifted happily to sleep. Odysseus naturally was beside himself with concern. What had he led his men into? There was nothing for it, though, but to wait out the night in terror, for the boulder blocked the door. In the morning the Cyclops rolled the massive stone aside, called his goats together and let them out, some to pasture and others to the pen in the yard. Then he sealed the entrance again. That night he had more Greeks for dinner. 1. Why did the Cyclops get the Greeks’ attention? 2. How did Odysseus feel about what the Cyclops had done? How do you know? Support with reference to the text. L. O: To understand the myth of Odysseus and the Cyclops.

Tuesday 16 th March 2021 Odysseus Desperate, Odysseus conceived a plan. To begin with, he offered the Cyclops wine. This was especially potent wine, which he and his men had brought ashore in skins. The Greeks customarily mixed water with their wine to dilute its strength. But the Cyclops had never drunk wine before, diluted or not, and it went straight to his head. Before he conked out, he asked Odysseus his name. “Nobody, ” replied the hero. “Well, Mr. Nobody, I like you, ” said the Cyclops drowsily. “In fact, I like you so much that I’m going to do you a favour. I’ll eat you last. ” With these encouraging words he fell fast asleep. Odysseus jumped up and put his men to work. They put a sharp point on the end of a pole and hardened it in the fire. Then, with a mighty “heave-ho”, they rammed it into the Cyclops’ eye. In agony Polyphemus groped about blindly for his tormentors, but the Greeks dodged him all night long. “Help, come quickly!” he shouted at one point, and his fellow Cyclopes came running. “What’s the matter? ” they called in at the mouth of the cave. 1. What is the importance of blinding the Cyclops? 2. Why do you predict that Odysseus said his name was ‘nobody’? L. O: To understand the myth of Odysseus and the Cyclops.

“I’m blinded and in agony, ” roared Polyphemus. “Whose fault is it? ” they shouted back. “Nobody’s, ” said Polyphemus. “Well in that case, ” responded the Cyclopes as they departed, “you’ve got a lot of nerve bothering us. ” In the morning, as usual, Polyphemus called his flock together and rolled the boulder aside to let them out. He planted himself in the door to bar the Greeks’ escape. Muttering at great length to his ram, he sought sympathy for his affliction. “Whatever you do, ” he told the beast, “don’t trust Greeks. ” So saying, he stroked the animal’s wooly back and sent him from the cave. Little did he know that Odysseus himself clung to the ram’s belly. And, in a similar fashion, his shipmates had escaped beneath the rest of the flock. When Polyphemus realized the deception he rushed to the seaside, where Odysseus and his men were rowing hard for safety. The hero could not resist a taunt. “Just to set the record straight, the name’s Odysseus, ” he called across the water. “But you have Nobody to thank for your troubles — nobody but yourself, that is. ” With a mighty curse Polyphemus threw a boulder which almost swamped the ship. But the rowers redoubled their efforts. They left the blinded Cyclops raging impotently on the shore. L. O: To understand the myth of Odysseus and the Cyclops. Explain how Odysseus’ plan of saying ‘nobody’ was his name had worked out.

Tuesday 16 th March 2021 Odysseus Produce a recall of the myth of Odysseus and the Cyclops in your own words: Ø Who was Odysseus? Ø Why were they travelling? Ø What was the cyclops? Ø What was the problem and how did they overcome it? Odysseus was… Although the Trojan War had come to an end… The cyclops… Odysseus used his cunning nature to… L. O: To understand the myth of Odysseus and the Cyclops. What does the myth teach us about self control?

Tuesday 16 th March 2021 Odysseus What knowledge have you learnt today? What skills have you learnt or developed today? How has your previous learning helped you with today’s lesson? L. O: To understand the myth of Odysseus and the Cyclops.