Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

5 minBellwork

5 minBellwork

5 minBellwork

5 minBellwork

5 minBellwork

20 minlesson:
Introduction to
the Iliad
Lecture on
Ancient
Greece and
background

25 minLesson: What
makes
someone a
hero?

25 minLesson: Heroic
Flaws (see full
lesson plan)

20 minlesson:
Modern and
Ancient
Heroes (see
full lesson
plan)

20 min- group
talk on
readings

10 min- begin
reading the
Iliad aloud as
a class and
assign
homework
Homework:
read Iliad
books 1-3

10 minIntroduce the
cumulative
project
requirements
and answer
questions

15 minstudents begin
working on
Facebook
profiles
Homework:
read books 78

5 min-assign
book talk
groups (4
students) and
have each
student serve
one job for
Day 5
(summarizer,
illustrator,
vocabulary,
discussion
leader)

15 mingroups write
plays

10 min- whole
group
discussion
Homeworkread books 1112

10 mingroups
present plays
Homework:
read books 910
Hero Facebook
Profile

Homework:
read books 4-6

Day 6
5 minBellwork

Select a hero
for the
cumulative
project
Day 7
5 minBellwork

Day 8
5 minBellwork

Day 9
5 minBellwork

Day 10
5 minBellwork

30 min
Lesson: The
Journey of the
Hero (see full
lesson plan)
10 minbrainstorming
for hero story
Homework:
read books 1314

5 min- Review
of Journey of
the Hero
(YouTube
Video)
35 minstudents work
independently
on their hero
stories

Outline of
story

Homework:
read books 1516

Day 11
5 minBellwork

rough draft of
short story
Day 12
5 minBellwork

35 min- Peer
review with 2
peers.
Homework:
read book 21
Edit rough
draft

20 min lesson:
The anti-hero
10 minstudents fill in
a character
profile of the
anti-hero
Homework:
read book 22

20 min lesson:
Heroic
revisions (how
to revise)
20 minstudents work
independently
on their hero
stories

20 min lesson:
Character
Development
in Writing

20 min- group
talk on
readings
20 min- class
discussion

20 min- Peer
review
Homeworkread books 1920

Homeworkread books 2021

Edit rough
draft

Edit rough
draft

Day 13
5 minBellwork

Day 14
5 minBellwork

Day 15

40 minWriting
Conferences
with teacher
and
independent
work time

40 minWriting
Conferences
with teacher
and
independent
work time

Homeworkread books 1718

rough draft of
short story

Homeworkread books 2324

Complete
Writing
Assignment
due
45 minSocratic
Seminar on
The Iliad