1. Project Ideas & Effective Rubrics The Odyssey

2. Sample Project Ideas  Create an amusement park based on one of the places Odysseus went.  Compare and Contrast “TO” and “O Brother Where Art Thou”  Create a soap opera  Create a travel brochure of the Lotus Island  Create a ship log for Odysseus  Sketch a character from the epic poem and modernize him/her  Modernize the language from “TO”  Retell the story (or part of the story) from another character’s point of view

3. Effective Rubrics  Use online resources to create rubrics that fit your project.  Good rubrics are very specific, not general  Avoid categories that assume automatic points.  In order to create a rubric, you need a project idea first. To create a project, you need to finish reading the text.