Name: Book Summarized: # The Odyssey: Book Summary Charts
Directions: As we read The Odyssey, use the chart below to keep track of the most important literary details from each book (aka chapter). Please keep track of the amount of book summary charts that you complete as we read. You must create a book summary chart for at least 8 of the books/chapters that we read (no more than 4 summaries can be from Part One, so you will need to have several from Part Two as well).
Focus:
Notes:
Figurative Language
(Record any allusions, Homeric similes, and epithets that you identify in the book/chapter. You must provide a parenthetical citation for each fig. language find.)

1 Sentence Summary
(Boil down the major plot developments into a one- sentence summary)

Odysseus’ Character Development
(Analyze how Odysseus’ character develops over the course of the text --
Is he strong/weak, selfless/selfish, brave/cowardly? etc.)

Theme (s) + Analysis:
(Identify which of the following provided themes are present in this book AND describe how each theme is being represented in the plot.)
(NOTE: you can discuss more than 1 theme)
Coming of Age, Hospitality, Role of Women, Perseverance, Fate vs. Free Will, Importance of Loyalty
Theme Related Quote
(Record one quote that represents a major theme from The Odyssey (you must include the line number(s) where this quote can be found in a parenthetical citation or you will receive NO CREDIT)
Example: “Quote” (Rouse 55). Coming of Age