Here's a review quiz for completion of The Odyssey, the questions were taken from Teaching Literature in the Grammar Grades and High School, Bolenius
1. Where was Ulysses home?
2. Why was Ulysses forced to take these long journeys?
3. What are the most thrilling scenes?
4. What characters do you like the best?
5. What was the cause of the Trojan War?
6. Whose side are you on?
7. How did the gods and goddesses side?
8. What is your idea of a hero?
9. Who in The Odyssey comes closest to your idea of a hero?
10. What monsters did you meet?
11. Which of the women do you like best?
12. What was the Greeks idea of heaven and hell? _
13. Compare Helen and Penelope:
14. Compare Ulysses with our modern idea of a hero:
15. How did Ulysses fall short of a hero?
16. What did you learn of home life of the Greeks?
17. What was their social life like?
18. What amusements did they enjoy?
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Michelle,
It looks like you are moving through Omnibus at a slower pace than we are. Are you going to take more than 1 year to complete? We eliminated most of the secondary readings and are not even doing all the primary readings (for example, reading books 1 and 7 of Herodotus, not all 9). We're ahead of you now, but I will still be checking your blog for good ideas. Thanks for creating it.
Hi, reader mom. I think we got bogged down in The Odyssey. I have a slow reader, so we slowed down to a book of The Odyssey per day. We're finally finished. Now they are reading A Day in Old Athens, which is on the Well Trained Mind recommendations. I thought they needed a break from serious lit. We should be finished with that after next week and will go on to Herodotus. I think we'll only read Books 1,2 & 7.
We'll cover the Omnibus in one yr. I plan to skip a few primary readings and we're reading all of the C. S. Lewis from the secondary readings. I teach that in a co-op class.
Thanks for stopping by!
Michelle
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