1. Warm Up: Thursday, Oct. 12th Unscramble these events on your timeline (back of notes packet) based on how Odysseus lived them and create a hashtag for each stop.
King Alcinious
Lotus Eaters
Troy
Underworld
Scylla and Charybdis
Bag of Wind
Cyclops
Helios’ Island
Calypso
Circe
Sirens
Cicones
Return to Ithaca

2. Linear Timeline “In Media Res” Start of Story King Alcinous
Flashback to tell story to King
Freed from
Calypso
3 years at sea
7 years with Calypso
Ithaca
Troy
Book 9 10 11
Book 12
Book 5
*Zeus sends Hermes to free Odysseus
*Calypso tries to convince him to stay, but he makes the decision to go home
*builds raft and leaves
STORM
*Falls overboard and swims to shore
*end of war
*Ciconian Army
*Lotus Eaters
*Sirens
*Sylla and Charbdis
*Helio’s Cattle
*Calypso
*the Cyclops (Polyphemus)
*travels to Underworld (prophecy)
*Circe (witch) – turns men into pigs