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The Iliad

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Achilles
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.

by Kate Mills, Buckinghamshire

Last Updated: 4 Feb 2010


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