Goals

 

Details

Duration: N/A

Assessments: Performance/presentation (i.e. speech, play)

 

Description

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 did five separate shows for five blocks, spread over two nights. Each show lasted about an hour.

Each student had five minutes to present. During the five minutes, the student had to do the
following:

1. Contextualize the scene for the audience



2. Recite his ten lines from memory



3. Present his work of art and, if applicable, explain how it was made



4. Explain how the work of art interprets, expands upon, or illuminates Homer's original poem

The students presented their works of art in the narrative order of the poem.

Attached are the programs for the five blocks that presented in 2004, which gives a good idea of the possible range of art work.

Block A Program
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Block B Program
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Block C Program
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Block D Program
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Block E Program
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Scylla and Charybdis: a retelling
An exemplary project by Anthony Antonaros ('07), using animation art to re-tell this portion of The Odyssey. (Note: cl...
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Student Artwork Sampler
Brief slideshow highlighting students' artistic interpretations of events from The Odyssey....
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Author Reflections

The show must be carefully orchestrated and rehearsed. We asked the audience to save applause to the very end, to emphasize that these works of art represented a continuous story. Transitions between students must be seamless. Lighting design will facilitate this.