Day 2

The Song of Achilles Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Students should read chapters Eight through Fourteen.

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.6

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.7

  3. 3

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.9

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Chapter Eight

Patroclus is miserable and isolated without Achilles. He impulsively decides to run away and find Achilles. Utterly underprepared, Patroclus fears he is lost - when he discovers Achilles in the woods, with his...

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