For 3000 years, artists have been inspired by Homer's Odyssey and retold its hero journey in countless ways. Now it's our students' turn, as artists with their own individual talents, to continue the tradition of retelling The Odyssey.

The culminating project of the reading of Homer's Odyssey will be the Mosaic Retelling Project. Each class will split up the important plot events of the entire Odyssey, analyze their parts closely, and then create pieces of art that retell these parts of The Odyssey in whatever way the students are inspired.

In the end, the class will assemble all its artistic retellings into a mosaic for an evening presentation of The Odyssey to the school community.

How the students retell their section of The Odyssey is entirely up to them; any art form is acceptable: drama, music, poetry, painting, sculpture, animation, comics, puppetry, film, radio, dance, the list goes on. Student imagination sets the limits of what is possible.

 

Subject Area(s): Language Arts, Visual and Performing Arts

 

Teaching Days to Complete: 8+ weeks

 

Keywords  What's this?

Odyssey, oral storytelling, Homer, Greeks, ancient literature, hero journey

 

Outcomes  What's this?

 

21st Century Leadership Skills  What's this?

Communicate Effectively and Persuasively, Manage Projects Effectively, Express Creatively

 

Graduation Portfolio Tasks  What's this?

Literary Analysis, Creative Expression, Multimedia Project, Public Speaking