The Epic of Gilgamesh Lesson Plan

Students read Tablet XI

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1
   Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.9
   Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.1
   Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the informa

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