The Odyssey: A Collection of Reader's Theater Script-Stories

Are you looking for a more engaging way to teach the Odyssey? These five 40-minute script-stories bring Homer's epic to life by allowing your students to inhabit the classic characters. Although dialogue and touches of humor have been added to increase engagement, the adaption is incredibly faithful to the original epic.

Included in this 73-page download are five script-stories and two handouts designed for grades 7-12:

"Searching for Odysseus" (script-story)

"On Calypso's Isle" (script-story)

"In the Cave of the Cyclops" (script-story)

"Circe the Witch" (script-story)

"Return to Ithaca" (script-story)

"The Lotus-Eaters and the Sirens" (handout)

"Scylla and Charybdis and the Cattle of Helios" (handout)

Each script-story has a 2-page teacher guide providing story summary, relevant background information, anticipatory questions, connections, recall questions, and teachable terms.

Note: This material is excerpted from Reaching Olympus: The Saga of the Trojan War by Zachary Hamby.

Want to learn the backstory of the Odyssey? Check out our script-story collection based on the Trojan War: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Trojan-War-A-Collection-of-Readers-Theater-Script-Stories-4838651

Looking for a game or culminating activity based on the Odyssey? Check out our Odyssey Puzzle Challenge here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Odyssey-Escape-Room-Puzzle-Challenge-6343325