QR Challenge: The Odyssey Books 10-12

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A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa ) onto their mobile devices
Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

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1. Aeolus thinks the gods meant for Odysseus to lose the bag of winds, which otherwise ensured him a safe voyage. He thinks only the gods could be behind Odysseus’s misfortune and that his punishment was meant to be. Aeolus rationalizes that if the gods are against him, he must be evil [since they are divine and all-powerful]. He turns Odysseus away to support the will of the gods and keep harm from coming to him.	Why does Aeolus consider Odysseus an "evil man"? How is this conclusion logical and why does it justify his turning Odysseus away?
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3. Fearful of death and the underworld, Odysseus also is moved by his encounters with the dead ghosts of his unmourned comrade, Elpenor; his mother Anticleia, who died of heartbreak over him; and the blind prophet Teiresias, who tells him of his future, fate, and ultimate death. Adjusting to these supernatural experiences—while guarding his sacrifice and listening to the sad stories of the undead—was truly overwhelming, even for a hero such as Odysseus.	Why is Odysseus’s experience at the House of Hades profound for him? Explain.
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5. Eurylochus appears to be Odysseus’s second-in-command. He leads a company of men to Circe’s house and returns to tell Odysseus of the spell she cast upon his men, turning them into pigs. Eurylochus’s role is significant because he openly opposes Odysseus’s judgment at times—first by trusting Circe, then by harvesting the sacred cattle on the isle of Helios. His influence over Odysseus’s starving men on Helios is what causes Zeus to kill all of them at sea. It also leads to Odysseus’s years of imprisonment on Calypso’s island.	Who is Eurylochus? Why is his role significant?
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7. Odysseus’s adventures in this selection include: the confrontation with the Laestrygonians; the undoing of Circe; the first mortal voyage to the house of Hades; the bypassing of the singing Sirens; the narrow escape from the monster Scylla and the sucking whirlpools of Charbdis; and the temptation of Helios’s sacred livestock. Students may also note Odysseus’s misfortunes with Aeolus’s bag of winds and his shipwrecked exile on Calypso’s island.	Which of Odysseus’s adventures is most interesting to you? Why? Explain.
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9. The island and inhabitants are unknown. Antiphates and thousands of other Laestrygonians started chasing and killing them. They eat three of Odysseus’s men and throw rocks at Odysseus’s ship as it leaves the harbor.	The Laestrygonians.
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11. Circe is a goddess who drugs the food of some of Odysseus’s men, sedating them before magically turning them into pigs. Odysseus becomes angry and takes on the goddess himself, to force her to undo her spell and free his men.	Circe
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13. No mortal has ever entered Hades, the land of death. The screaming ghosts pose a threat, wanting to feed on Odysseus’s bleeding sacrifice. He has to fend them off with a sword until he has heard his prophecy from Teiresias.	House of Hades
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15. Sailing past Scylla, the six-headed monster, without being eaten alive. No ship has ever passed her without having some men devoured.	Scylla
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17. Sailing past this giant, spewing whirlpool without losing their ship and being sucked underwater.	Charybdis

The Odyssey Books 10-12: QR Challenge

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