Excerpt from "The Odyssey"

This list is based on Tony Kline's translation of Book IX of Homer's epic poem, in which Odysseus tells the tale of his encounter with the Cyclops named Polyphemus.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 8 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: A Wrinkle in Time, The Drummer Boy of Shiloh, The Odyssey, A Man, Soldier home, Sonnet 116, Where I Find My Heroes, White House Funeral Sermon, O Captain! My Captain!, Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, A Definition of a Gentleman