Day 4

The Song of Achilles Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    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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