An Iliad - Day 3

You'll start the day in partners, completing the work you started on Tuesday. When you are finished, please submit your work to turnitin.com.

Next, we'll work together as a class to explore your responses.

1. Clarify who is on the different sides
1. Achaeans: Achilles, Agamemnon, Menelaus, Odysseus, Thersites
2. Trojans: Hector, Priam, Paris, Chryseis
3. Helen?
2. Discuss which character has the most power
3. Learning from the voices in the story

For the last 15 minutes of class, you'll write and submit a journal response, using this prompt:

• An Iliad - submitted journal response #1

If there is time left, we'll discuss this statement from Pandarus: “It’s a question you could think about for a thousand years and you would never find an answer: Is it permissible to do a vile thing if by doing so you can stop a war?” (28). 

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Homework: Read & annotate p. 41-54