A Demonstration Lesson Plan in World Literature

I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
- Identify the specific key plot events in The Odyssey
- Analyze the characters including their traits, motivations and conflicts
- Value the character traits that are associated in the story

II. Subject Matter

“The Odyssey”
Reference: World Literature (The Literary Masterpieces of the World), PP. 39-42
Materials: Visual aids, laptop, power point presentation

III. Procedure

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

Preliminary Activities
1. Greetings
Good morning class. Good morning ma’am.

2. Classroom Management
Kindly pick up the pieces of trash (Students pick up the pieces of paper and
under your chairs and check your arrange their chairs.)
alignment.

You may now take your seat.

Thank you ma’am.

3. Checking of attendance
Ms. Secretary, may I know who is
absent today? No one is absent today ma’am.

Very good. I’m glad to hear that.

4. Vocabulary Drill

Before we start with our lesson, let us

first have a vocabulary drill.

Please check under your arm chairs for

pieces of papers.
Those pieces of papers have words that
we are unlocking today.

To those students who have papers please

come in front.
The mechanics for our game is using a
dart pin, aim for your desired vocabulary
drill.
 5. Recall
Let us have a short recap about what
we have learned last meeting. What was
our topic yesterday?

Very Good. Let us see if you all

remember the story well.

Our topic is about the story Iliad.

6. Motivation

Before we start with our lesson, I would

like to ask, what does loyalty mean to
you?

Yes, very good.

If two people were in a committed Ma’am loyalty is the ability of a person to

relationship and agreed to remain loyal to stay true or faithful whatever the
each other, what does it mean? circumstances may be.

Very good.

It means that they agree to stick together

whether they are experiencing good or
Okay class we will be having a short
bad situations. They try to protect their
activity.
 relationship.

Please stand and fall in line. I will be

giving you situations and scenarios and
you have to go to the line where your
answer corresponds with. Your answers
would either be a YES, NO, or MAYBE.
(The students will go and gather in front
for the activity)
The first situation:

1. I know what it’s like to be away from

someone I care about.
2. It’s hard to be away from someone you
care about for an extended period of time.
3. If I had to be away from the person I
cared most about for a month, (this could
be a boyfriend/girlfriend/best friend)
without any contact (no email, no phone
calls, no letters) I would remain loyal to
them.
4. If I had to be away from the person I
care about most for 10 years, I would
remain loyal to them.

Okay class, thank for participating. You (The students will fall in line to their
may now take your seat. respective answers)

Processing activity:
 What did you notice about
yourself during this activity?

 By then end of this activity most

of you were standing much more in the
“no” area, why do you think someone
wouldn’t remain loyal to someone else
after being separated for ten years?

Okay, excellent. What else can you add?

 Very good. Thank you for your answers.

 The story we are going to explore

today is about a King and Queen who
were separated for twenty years and the
way their loyalty was tested.

Most of us have answered No to the last

A. Lesson Proper
last series of situations.

Do you have any idea what our topic will

Being loyal to someone is hard especially
be today?
if you have been separated for a long
time. People who are engage in a
romantic relationship finds it hard to stay
(Present pictures and characters that true and faithful to the other person
would symbolize the journey of maybe because of the lack of
Odysseus.) communication.

Yes, very good.

Are you familiar with the story?
Who is the main character in the story?
In a romantic relationship, it is very
important that they both have assurance
about their relationship. If they have
problems, they should talk about it.How
can their relationship prosper if they lack
the basic component in being in a
relationship which is communication.

(Play the power point presentation with

the story of the journey of Odysseus)

Please read the first route of the long

journey of Odysseus.
…...second route, please read.

Ma’am, our topic will be about The

Odyssey.
….…third

Yes ma’am.
….….fourth
The main character in the story is
Odysseus.

….….fifth

In the Island of Cicones, after leaving

Troy, they stop to raid this island for
supplies. The Cicones attack on
…...sixth horseback, and Odysseus lost 72 of his
men.

Odysseus sends his men out to search for

food, and has to recover them when they
eat the Lotus Flower.

Here, Odysseus and his men find a

Cyclops’ cave, lured by his cheese and
 wine. The cyclops, Polyphemus, traps
them inside the cave. Odysseus and his
men blind the cyclops, and then sneak out
under his heard of sheep.
….…seventh

Aeolus, the god of the winds, gives

Odysseus all the bad winds, so he can
safely sail home. Odysseus’ men go
against his orders and open the bag, and
all of the winds escape.
…..eighth

The Laestrygonians, a race of cannibals,

eat the Greeks. Only the men on
Odysseus’ ship and himself survive.

Circe turns Odysseus’ men to swine, but

Odysseus is protected from her magic
with the help of Hermes, who gave him a
…..ninth magical herb called Moly. Odysseus ends
up staying there for what seems like a
short time, but ended up being a couple
of years. Before Odysseus departs, Circe
finally tells him that he needs to find the
blind prophet Teiresias in the
Underworld.

Odysseus consults the prophet Teiresias

to ask how he can get home, and finds his
mother there, who has committed suicide
in depression.

…...tenth Odysseus and his men will pass here, an

island with women singing their luring
songs, trying to reel in sailors. So they do
not hear, Odysseus fills his men’s ears
with beeswax, and he has them tie him to
the mast.

Odysseus chooses to sail for Scylla, a six-

headed sea serpent, rather than the
 Charybdis, a giant whirlpool. He did this
because he knew that if he went to
Charybdis, the whole ship would be
destroyed. However, if he went towards
Scylla, six men would die. A sacrifice the
….…eleventh brave Odysseus decided to make.

They stop here, and Odysseus falls asleep

praying to Athena. While sleeping, his
men once again go against his orders and
eat Helios’ cattle. This outrages the god
and he threatens never to rise again. As a
punishment, Zeus throws a bolt of
lightning at the ship, and turns it to
splinters. Only Odysseus survives.

Odysseus finds this island after drifting in

the sea. It is an island of women, with a
…..twelfth nymph named Calypso, with whom
Odysseus has a seven-year affair with.
After seven years, Hermes convinces
Calypso to let Odysseus build a new ship
so he could sail home.

The Phaecians accept Odysseus, and he

….…thirteenth explains hid ten- year journey to them
during a feast. They happily give him a
ride home on one of their magical ships.

Odysseus finally arrives home, and sees

his son, Telemachus, for the first time in
15 years. He and Telemachus kill all of
the suitors, and Odysseus takes his place
as king, once again, alongside his wife
Penelope.

None ma’am.

Do you have any questions?

B. Application

If you have no questions let us have a

game. We will be having a Quiz Bee.
I need you to form 3 groups with 3
members each.

The mechanics of the game. I will be

giving a set of questions. The first group
who can answer three questions correctly
will be declared as the winner.

To those group who wants to answer the

question, you will have to race in front
and get the bottle.

You can go in front after I said ready, set,

go.

Are you ready?

Yes ma’am.

1. How many men did Odysseus lost in

Cicones Island? (72 men)

2. What is the name of the cyclops who

traps Odysseus and his men inside the (Polyphemus)
cave?

3. Who is the god of wind that gave

Odysseus a bag of bad winds so he could
sail home?
(Aeolus)

4. These are a race of cannibals that eat

the Greeks.
5. Circe turned Odysseus men into what (Laestrygonians)
kind of animal?

6. It is a six headed serpent.

(Swine)

7. How many years did Odysseus and

Calypso had an affair?
(Schylla)

8. It is the giant whirlpool.

(7 years)

9. In the underworld, who did Odysseus

consult to be able to go home?

(Charybdis)
10. It is also known as Calypso’s Island.

(Teiresias)

Okay class, the winner is group _______.

Let us give them a round of applause.
(Ogygia)

C. Generalization

Again, how will you describe the journey

of Odysseus?

The long journey of Odysseus symbolizes

What does the long journey symbolizes?
Yes, correct. Very good.
and reminds us that sometimes we have
to fight for the things we value the most.
Like in the case of Odysseus, he fought
and persevered throughout his long
journey for the sake of his family.
What have you learned from the different
characters in the story?

I have learned a lot of things form the

What have you learned about Penelope? characters in the story.

Penelope is the wife of Odysseus and

even though she was left behind without
any assurance that Odysseus will be back
again, she remained loyal to him.

How about Calypso?

I have learned from Calypso that even
though she had an affair with Odysseus,
she still chooses the right path and it is to
let go of the person she loves.

D. Valuing

Heroes should be a natural leader.

As we go back and recall the story, I
wanted to ask everyone of you, what
makes a great hero? What qualities
should you possess in order to be a hero?

Yes, correct.Very good.

What else?

What do they all have in common?

Defeats monsters and bad guys.

Yes. Good. Any other answers?

Fights battles and usually wins at the end
of the story.
Does a hero have to be always strong? No ma’am. Most heroes have their
weaknesses like Achilles who was killed
because he was shot by an arrow in his
heel.

No ma’am. Having weakness is not a sign

Do you think having these weaknesses
can make you a less of a hero?
of defeat. It signifies that as a person, we
all have weaknesses that could make us
vulnerable in certain situations, but it is
up to us how we can cope up with these
weaknesses and move forward.

Excellent!

IV. Evaluation

Give important details in the story. You

can write the things that you have
learned. Using 140 characters, pin small
strips of paper to the twitter board in
front.

V. Assignment:

Create a travel brochure featuring some of the locations and characters Odysseus had
encountered. Use a white printer paper and fold it into thirds, brochure style. Each
location and creature required a trivia or test question about it on the back of the
brochure.

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

Are there any questions? None sir.

Are you sure? Yes sir.

If that is so, would you please arrange the

chairs and clean our classroom before
you leave.

Let us call it a day.

Good bye class. Good bye and thank you teacher. See you
tomorrow.

Prepared by:
_________________

Jenny Lynn O. dela Rosa

Student Teacher

Checked by:
_______________

Maureen Fernandez

Cooperating Teacher
 Noted by:

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Nilo C. Balangon

TEP Program Coordinator