Day 5

The Song of Achilles Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Students should read from Chapter Twenty-Eight to the end of the novel.

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3

  3. 3

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1

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 Twenty-Eight

Paris boasts that if any Greek can defeat him in single combat, the war will be over and he will return Helen. Menelaus and Paris duel, and the former has the upper hand until Paris...

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