The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Lesson Plan

Discussion: The Root of All Evil

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will broaden their knowledge about the themes of the text.

Common Core Standards:

N/A

Structure:

This activity has two parts. In the first part, the teacher should have students watch the following video together as a class:

1. Why Did Sauron Turn Evil? | LOTR Lore – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5RhieGEB4s

Once the class has finished reading, the teacher should hand out a worksheet with the following questions to each of the students, and then break them up into groups so that they can work together to answer them.

1. Who was Sauron, originally? What were his original...