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Charting Alliances
Kind of Activity:
Collaborative Writing
Objective:
Students will be able to connect the complex relationships and alliances in the play
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3
Structure:
As a class, develop a diagram which illustrates the connections between all of the characters in the book so far. Consider the following questions, and how to represent them visually in a diagram:
- What are the book’s most significant relationships? (Besides the obvious Achilles and Patroclus - for example, Patroclus' contentious relationship with Thetis or Achilles' antagonistic relationship with Agamemnon)
- Which relationships change over the course of...
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