What this reading supplies. The prompt, stages and short rubric are in the lesson. The lesson names two full-length works and two vetted secondary sources but hands you none of the passages, no full rubric, and no model of what a paper on the semester’s question looks like. Here you get: key passages from both anchor texts, each located by book or chapter; a note on the two open-access secondary sources that are always available; a model thesis, outline and exemplar paragraphs; the rubric at four levels; and a worked plan for the presentation and the peer evaluations. Editions: Homer, The Odyssey, tr. Samuel Butler (1900), Project Gutenberg 1727, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1727 (prose, no line numbers, cited by book); Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), Standard Ebooks, https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-louis-stevenson/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde/text/single-page (cited by chapter); Stevenson, “A Chapter on Dreams,” in Across the Plains (1892), Project Gutenberg 614, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/614. All retrieved 26 Sept. 2026; wording as in the editions. The models and rubric are SLS original.

1. Key passages, located

These are the passages the model paper below uses. They are examples of the kind of evidence the assignment asks for, not a required list; you may use any passage from the two works, if you cite it accurately.

Odyssey, Book 9: the Cyclops on the gods and the guest

you are a fool, or else you know nothing of this country. Talk to me, indeed, about fearing the gods or shunning their anger? We Cyclopes do not care about Jove or any of your blessed gods, for we are ever so much stronger than they. I shall not spare either yourself or your companions out of any regard for Jove, unless I am in the humour for doing so.

Odyssey, Book 22: Ulysses on rejoicing over the dead

Old woman,” said he, “rejoice in silence; restrain yourself, and do not make any noise about it; it is an unholy thing to vaunt over dead men. Heaven’s doom and their own evil deeds have brought these men to destruction, for they respected no man in the whole world, neither rich nor poor, who came near them, and they have come to a bad end as a punishment for their wickedness and folly. Now, however, tell me which of the women in the house have misconducted themselves, and who are innocent.

Odyssey, Book 22: how the women die

So saying he made a ship’s cable fast to one of the bearing-posts that supported the roof of the domed room, and secured it all around the building, at a good height, lest any of the women’s feet should touch the ground; and as thrushes or doves beat against a net that has been set for them in a thicket just as they were getting to their nest, and a terrible fate awaits them, even so did the women have to put their heads in nooses one after the other and die most miserably.[178] Their feet moved convulsively for a while, but not for very long.

Odyssey, Book 23: Penelope on the suitors

It is some god who is angry with the suitors for their great wickedness, and has made an end of them; for they respected no man in the whole world, neither rich nor poor, who came near them, and they have come to a bad end in consequence of their iniquity;

Jekyll and Hyde, Story of the Door: the price of a scene

If you choose to make capital out of this accident,’ said he, ‘I am naturally helpless. No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene,’ says he. ‘Name your figure.’ Well, we screwed him up to a hundred pounds for the child’s family; he would have clearly liked to stick out; but there was something about the lot of us that meant mischief, and at last he struck.

Jekyll and Hyde, Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case: concealment

Hence it came about that I concealed my pleasures; and that when I reached years of reflection, and began to look round me and take stock of my progress and position in the world, I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life.

Other places to look (SLS original list). Odyssey: Book 1 (Zeus on human folly), Book 9 (the Cyclops), Book 11 (Agamemnon), Book 22 (the killing of the suitors and the women), Book 23 (Penelope’s test), Book 24 (Agamemnon on Penelope). Jekyll and Hyde: Story of the Door, Search for Mr. Hyde, The Carew Murder Case, Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case. These are chapter and book names the reader can find in any edition of the works.

2. Two secondary sources that are always available

The assignment asks for at least two vetted open-access secondary sources. These are two public-domain ones you can start from. They are Butler’s preface to his translation and Stevenson’s essay on dreams, both hosted and vetted in the Lesson 4.2 reading; you still have to say in your own annotation what each contributes and where it is limited. Below is one more passage from Butler’s preface, used in the model paper.

Samuel Butler, preface to the first edition (1900), on the division of the poem

For roughly the Return occupies eight Books, and Penelope and the Suitors sixteen.

3. Model thesis, outline and exemplar paragraphs (SLS original)

Thesis. A person’s community sets the ethical boundaries he will observe only as far as the community can see and enforce them: the Odyssey’s code of hospitality is enforced in public, so it licenses violence when it is broken, while Jekyll’s community demands only respectable appearance, so it produces a man free to do anything out of sight.

Paragraph 1. The Odyssey’s code of hospitality is a public institution, and the poem lets the public enforce it. The Cyclops announces that his people do not care about Jove or any of your blessed gods (Butler, Book 9), and that announcement is the poem’s own account of why his cave is a place where the code has failed. The household’s judgment on the suitors is voiced afterward by Penelope, who says they respected no man in the whole world, neither rich nor poor, who came near them (Butler, Book 23). The community is behind the killing. But the same public support is what makes the cruelty possible, because it removes the check that a private conscience would supply. Ulysses tells Euryclea that it is an unholy thing to vaunt over dead men (Butler, Book 22), and in the same scene Telemachus decides the women will not die a clean death. The code restrains the boast and licenses the hanging. Butler’s division of the poem, which he admits scholars do not share, is disputed, but the arithmetic is his: the Return occupies eight Books, and Penelope and the Suitors sixteen (Butler, preface). Whatever one thinks of the theory, twice as many books go to the household’s judgment as to the journey.

Paragraph 2. Jekyll’s London works the other way: it demands an appearance and asks for nothing else. In the story of the trampled child, the witnesses fix a price for the family, and Hyde accepts it with No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene (Stevenson, Story of the Door). The scene is settled by paying, not by asking what Hyde is; the boundary is drawn around the embarrassment. Jekyll’s own statement shows the same rule from inside. He says he concealed my pleasures until he stood committed to a profound duplicity of life (Stevenson, Full Statement). A community that only checks appearances trains its members to keep the appearance and move everything else out of sight, which is exactly where a drug that produces a second body is most useful.

Paragraph 3 (disagreement). Stevenson, in an essay about his own composition, gives the moral of the tale wholly to himself: The meaning of the tale is therefore mine (Stevenson, A Chapter on Dreams). I grant what he claims. The design is deliberate, and I am not arguing that his dream-helpers wrote it. But the claim understates what the tale itself shows. The pattern in Jekyll’s statement is a response to what his world expects of him, and Jekyll himself gives that pressure as the reason he hid. The meaning of the tale is Stevenson’s; the constraint that produces Hyde is the community’s. A reader who takes his sentence as the whole account loses that second half.

Conclusion sentence. To the extent a person’s community determines his limits in a crisis, it does so through what it can see: where the code is public, the community sets the limit and enforces it, sometimes past the point of cruelty; where the community sees only appearances, it sets no limit at all on what is done out of sight.

Works Cited (MLA, SLS original). Butler, Samuel. Preface to First Edition. The Odyssey, by Homer, translated by Samuel Butler, 1900. Project Gutenberg, www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1727. Accessed 26 Sept. 2026. Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Samuel Butler, 1900. Project Gutenberg, www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1727. Accessed 26 Sept. 2026. Stevenson, Robert Louis. “A Chapter on Dreams.” Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays, 1892. Project Gutenberg, www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/614. Accessed 26 Sept. 2026. Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 1886. Standard Ebooks, standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-louis-stevenson/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde. Accessed 26 Sept. 2026.

What the exemplar does not do. It is about 520 words, well under the 1,200 to 1,500 the assignment requires, because it shows three paragraphs, not the whole paper. Your paper needs a longer introduction, at least one more body paragraph, and a second secondary source. The paper you write must be your own; copying this exemplar is a breach of the academic honesty section of the prompt.

4. Rubric at four levels (SLS original)

5. The presentation, worked (SLS original)

The visual that passes the test. A matrix that the presenter does not read aloud cell by cell. The audience reads it while the presenter says the claim.

A four-minute plan. (1) 20 seconds: state the essential question and the claim. (2) 60 seconds: the matrix, with the presenter naming only the last row. (3) 60 seconds: the strongest passage, quoted and analyzed. (4) 60 seconds: the objection you took most seriously (the Stevenson paragraph above) and your answer. (5) 20 seconds: the answer to the question. Timing is about 150 words a minute, so the spoken script is about 600 words.

The transcript. Your transcript is your script with the on-screen text and the slide changes marked in brackets. It is submitted with the recording, and is acceptable as your captions.

6. Peer evaluation, worked (SLS original)

Sample. Persuasive: the matrix made the difference between the two communities visible before you spoke about it, so I understood your claim in ten seconds. Improvement: your strongest passage, the Book 22 hanging, was read aloud and then left; say what it shows about the code, not only what happens. If you add one sentence there, the objection that follows will land more clearly.

A weak evaluation says “good job” or “needs more evidence.” A strong one names an element, says why it worked, and names one change the student could make in the next hour.