Language Arts 9 assignment
Due Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Mrs. Marston

The Odyssey Book 5-12
Writing assignments must be handwritten and may be illustrated.
We have read about the following sites so far:
Ithaca (#17)
Calypso’s Island (#15)
The island of the Phaeacians (#16)
Troy (#1)
Ismarus (#2)
The Land of the Lotus Eaters (#4)
The Island of the wild goats and the Cyclops’s cave (#5 and #6)
The Isle of Winds - Aeolia (#7)
Cannibal Island (#9)
Circe’s Island (#10)
The Land of the Dead (#11)
The Sirens (#12)
Schylla and Charybdis (#13)

Choose at least four of the above events and write responses in the voice of one of the characters who was there.
• These responses should be written from the perspective of the chosen character (first person point of view), and should involve some sort of reflection or reaction to the event they link up with on the map of the world as the ancient Greeks perceived it.
• You could think of them as artifacts. They could be in the form of poems, songs, diary entries, and could include additional drawings
• You could present them as if the characters themselves wrote them and then they were discovered centuries later by explorers who happen upon the location.
• They could be recordings of the characters’ thoughts, as if overheard by some invisible god nearby.
• You may create more than four responses for super extra bonus credit.

Writing tips:
Make the paragraph the unit of composition Use the active voice.
Put the statements in positive form. Use definite, specific, concrete language.
Omit needless words. Avoid a succession of loose sentences.
Express coordinate ideas in similar form. Keep related words together.
In summaries, keep to one tense. Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end.