Title of the resource
Title of the resource in english
Publisher
Dislessia.net
Original language
Target and Age Group
Children and teens with Special Education Needs (SEN)
Link to resource
Author of the Entry:
Alessia Borriello, Bologna University, alessia.borriello2@studio.unibo.it
Peer-reviewer of the Entry:
Ayelet Peer, Bar- Ilan University, ayelet.peer@biu.ac.il
Second Peer-reviewer of the Entry:
Lisa Maurice, Bar-Ilan University, lisa.maurice@biu.ac.il
Dislessia.net
Dislessia.net is an online community of both amatorial and professional practitioners in education of young students with Special Education Needs (SEN). Its purpose is to collect didactic material as study aid for young students with learning disabilities. Members are able to publish exclusively first-hand original material.
Contents & Purpose
The narration of the Odyssey tells the story of the Homeric poem in a simplified and approachable manner, illustrated with cartoon drawings, and is addressed to children and teenagers with Special Education Needs (SEN).
The material is composed of illustration sheets accompanied by brief captions.
The illustrations introduce the Homeric characters beforehand, through cards with a character’s thumbnail and their name on each page. In a separate file of eleven pages, the characters interact and perform the poem’s events through cartoon sketches explained by short captions.
Only a few episodes are selected: Odysseus and the Phaeacians; Odysseus and Polyphemus; Ulysses’ Odysseus’ return to Ithaca. The major focus is on the encounter with Polyphemus, described in six pages.
Further comments
The slideshows of the Odyssey are in the schede didattiche section, for the category: scuola media, prima media, italiano, epica. The content is suitable for multimedia interactive whiteboards.
