The Song of Achilles Lesson Plan

Charting Alliances

Kind of Activity:

Collaborative Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to connect the complex relationships and alliances in the play

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3

Structure:

As a class, develop a diagram which illustrates the connections between all of the characters in the book so far. Consider the following questions, and how to represent them visually in a diagram:
- What are the book’s most significant relationships? (Besides the obvious Achilles and Patroclus - for example, Patroclus' contentious relationship with Thetis or Achilles' antagonistic relationship with Agamemnon)
- Which relationships change over the course of...