Project Exchange
INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES
Book Kick-Off: In Medias Res
Show the opening clip of the film Star Wars (up to the moment that Darth Vader appears through the blasted door). Ask the students, "Is this the begin...
Reading The Odyssey
Allow roughly four weeks for the reading of the epic. Plan to use significant chunks of classtime to read important sections aloud in class. (A sample...
Project Kick-Off
A week or two into the reading, introduce the Mosaic Retelling Project itself. A good time to do it is immediately after reading Book IV. Play the son...
Proposal
Although students may choose to work alone on their art piece, this is a group project: each block (or class) is the group. As a class, the retelling ...
Art Piece
Allow two weeks for students to complete their work of art, ideally happening in concurrent fine arts classes. To keep students on track, require the...
Memorized Passage
A significant feature of The Odyssey is that it was created, memorized, and performed as a song long before it was ever written down. In the spirit ...
Literary Analysis
The Mosaic Retelling Project is designed to engage students with a difficult text to a level that will lead to complex literary analysis, and give the...
Exhibition Night: The Mosaic Retelling
On exhibition night, each block of students retells the Odyssey by presenting their art works to the school community. When MSAT did this project, we...