The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Lesson Plan

Discussion: Tolkien and the Great War

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will broaden their knowledge about the themes of the text.

Common Core Standards:

N/A

Structure:

This activity has two parts. In the first part, students should organise themselves into groups of 2-3 people, and the teacher should have them read the "Postscript" of John Garth's book Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth.

Once the class has finished reading, the teacher should hand out a worksheet with the following questions to each of the students, and then break them up into groups so that they can work together to answer them.

1. What was the...