The Aeneid Lesson Plan

Film Screening: The Avenger

Kind of Activity:

Technology

Objective:

Students will draw lessons by comparing and contrasting the text with an adaptation in a different medium.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.6

Structure:

For this exercise, students should watch the first 50 or so minutes of The Avenger, a 1962 adaptation of The Aeneid (watchable here on Dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4f0e75)

Before beginning, the teacher should discuss the genesis of the film during the Motion Picture Production Code period of Hollywood (that is, when there was strict censorship of what could...