Song of Roland Lesson Plan

For this section, students should read Laisses 1-58 of The Song of Roland.

Common Core Objectives

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2. 2

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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

Laisses 1-58

In the first section of the text, we are introduced to the landscape of the poem and its characters. After seven years of constant warring, the Frankish king Charlemagne (literally, "Charles the Great") has conquered virtually all of Spain. Only the city of Saragossa*,...