The Epic of Gilgamesh Lesson Plan

Uruk Daily News

Kind of Activity:

Collaborative Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to convey information from the narrative in the form of a Newspaper.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.5

Structure:

A lot has ben going on in and about Uruk throughout the eight tablets we have read so far. As a class, create a local Newspaper that relates all of the major events from the story so far. Each student should choose a particular event from the text to report on.

Some students may want to make contributions that are different than a standard news...