The Iliad
Lesson Plan
By Kate Mills, Buckinghamshire, published 11th January 2011
The aims of this Iliad lesson for year 4/5 children are:
- to develop an understanding of the weapons and tactics used in ancient Greek warfare
- to be able to read and understand a challenging text and extract information from it.
Literacy objectives are to develop the children's skills in:
- extracting information from a narrative poem
- re-structuring the poem
- writing poems in different forms.
(These resources are attached below)
Attached files:
- The Iliad Teachers Notes
83 KB PDF document - The Iliad Resources
14.8 KB PDF document - The Iliad Pupils Work
23.5 KB PDF document