Detailed Lesson Plan in Greek Mythology

I. Objectives
a. Determine the significance of each story in real life situation
b. Cooperate and share ideas in classroom discussion
c. Perform and construct effective sentence in relation to the Iliad and the Odyssey

II. Learning task

Topic: The Iliad and The Odyssey
Reference/s: www.gradesaver.com/the-iliad/study-guide/summary
www.gradesaver.com/the-odyssey/study-guide/summary
Material/s: Cartolina, Manila Paper, Laptop, SMART TV

III. Procedure
Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity
A. Routinary Activities
1. Prayer
“Let us all stand and _____ kindly lead the
prayer.” Good morning ma’am!
2. Greeting
“Good morning class!”
3. Classroom Management
“Okay, before you sit down please pick up all of
the pieces of trash under your chairs arrange it
and sit properly.”
4. Checking of Attendance
“Group leaders! Who are the absentees in your
group?” None ma’am!
“Group 1? 2? 3? 4? 5?”

II. Lesson Proper

Activity
“Before we proceed to the lesson, let’s have an
activity first. I have here five (5) pictures on the
board and on the other side of the board, I will
post sets of words related to the pictures. The
following words describe the picture being
posted. I will call five (5) students to attach the
words on its corresponding pictures.”

Sets of words

Zeus
*God of the sky
*God of lightning and
thunder
*God of law, order
and justice
*Achilles
*Hero of the Trojan
War
*shot with an arrow in
the heel
 *Hephaestus
*God of fire
*God of metal
working, stone
masonry
*Apollo
*God of music
*God of poetry and
arts
*God of archery
*Agamemnon
*King of Mycenae
*Commander-in-chief
of Achaeans

Analysis

“Did you enjoy our game?” “Yes Ma’am@”

“Now, we are going to tackle about the Iliad and
the Odyssey by Homer.”
“But who is Homer?”
“He was blind, from the Island of Chios.
-He earned money singing at festivals.
-In the 1920's speculated that Homer composed
orally according to Milman Perry
-The Iliad and the Odyssey are the oldest
surviving works of Greek Literature.
- Composed in 8th Century B.C”

“Let’s now proceed to the story”

In the tenth and final year of the Trojan
War, Chryses, a priest of Apollo, attempts to
ransom his daughter from Agamemnon,
commander-in-chief of the Achaeans, who has
taken her captive while on a raid. When
Agamemnon treats him roughly and refuses the
ransom, Apollo is angered and brings plague on
the Achaeans. The Achaean prophet Calchas
correctly identifies the cause of the problem, and
he suggests giving the girl back with gifts to
Apollo. Agamemnon demands that he be
compensated for the loss of the girl, and Achilles,
the greatest Achaean warrior, objects. The two
men quarrel viciously. Agamemnon says he will
take back Briseis, a captive woman who was
given to Achilles as a prize for valor. Horribly
dishonored, Achilles returns to his ships and
refuses to fight. Agamemnon has Briseis taken
from Achilles, and he returns Chryses' daughter to
him. Achilles asks his mother, the goddess Thetis,
to prevail on Zeus, king of the gods, to bring ruin
on the Achaeans as long as Achilles does not fight
for them. Zeus is indebted to Thetis, and he grants
her request.
With Achilles out of the way, Hector,
champion of the Trojans, drives the Achaeans
back to their beached ships. The Achaeans build
fortifications, but at the urging of the chieftains
Agamemnon sends and embassy to ask Achilles
to return to battle. Agamemnon offers rich prizes,
but Achilles refuses the offer and remains
withdrawn from battle.
The Achaean fortifications are breached,
and many of the the greatest remaining Achaean
warriors are wounded. Achilles beloved
companion, Patroclus, begs Achilles to do
something to help their fellow soldiers. He asks
that he be allowed to put on Achilles' armor, so
that the Trojans will think that Achilles has
returned. Achilles grants the request, but warns
Patroclus to return once he has driven the Trojans
back from the ships. Patroclus drives the Trojans
back all the way to their own city walls, but there
Hector kills him with the help of Apollo. Hector
strips his armor and puts it on himself, and the
Achaeans barely manage to save Patroclus' body
from desecration.
Achilles goes berserk with grief and rage.
Thetis warns him that if he kills Hector, he will
die soon afterward. Achilles accepts his own life
as the price for revenge. He reconciles himself to
Agamemnon, receives new armor, via his mother,
forged by the smith of the gods, Hephaestus. He
charges into battle, slaughtering Trojans left and
right, routing the Trojan army almost single-
handedly. He meets Hector, chases him around
the city, and kills him easily. He then drags the
body from the back of his chariot, running laps
around the city of Troy so that the Trojans can
watch as their champion's body is horribly
desecrated.
Achilles returns to the Achaean camp,
where he holds magnificent funeral games for
Patroclus. He continues to abuse Hector's corpse.
Zeus sends Thetis to tell Achilles that he must
accept the ransom that Priam, king of Troy and
father of Hector, will offer in exchange for
Hector's body. Priam himself comes to see
Achilles, the man who has slaughtered so many of
his sons, and Achilles suddenly is reminded of his
own father who, as Priam has, will outlive his
most beloved son. He understands what he has
done, and his rage and grief give way to
compassion. He returns the body and offers a
cease-fire so that the Trojans can bury Hector.
With the word of Achilles as their guarantee, the
Trojans take eleven days to give Hector a proper
mourning and funeral. As the epic ends, the future
is clear: Achilles will not live to see the fall of
Troy, but the city is doomed nonetheless. All but
a handful of her people will be slaughtered, and
the city will be wiped off the face of the earth.”
“Do you understand the story of Iliad?”

“Before we continue to our new story which is

connected to the Iliad, Let us meet the set of
characters to our next story.”

 King of Ithaca
 One of the
great heroes
who join the
Greek
Odysseus expedition to
Troy
 Wife of
Odysseus
 Who loyalty
waits for
Odysseus to
Penelope come back
 Nymph
 Lives on the
island of Ogyia
– where
Odyssey was
Calypso washed up and
kept for 7 years
 The son of
Odysseus
 He was still a
baby when
Odysseus left
Telemachus but an adult
when the story
started
 The Sea God
who hates
Odysseus and
impedes/hinder
him from
Poseidon getting back to
Ithaca
 The Poseidon’s
son
 One of a
mythical race
of one eyed
Polyphemus man eating
giants
 A whirlpool in
a narrow
channel of
water who suck
sea water and
Charybdis spew it out 3
 times a day
 A sea monster
with six hands

Seylla
 Magical
females who
entrap and
destroy sailors
with the power
The Sirens of the songs
they sings
 Witch who turn
some
Odysseus’ men
into pigs

Circe

(The Odyssey)
“Ten years after the fall of Troy, the
victorious Greek hero Odysseus has still not
returned to his native Ithaca. A band of rowdy
suitors, believing Odysseus to be dead, has
overrun his palace, courting his faithful -- though
weakening -- wife, Penelope, and going through
his stock of food. With permission from Zeus, the
goddess Athena, Odysseus' greatest immortal ally,
appears in disguise and urges Odysseus' son
Telemachus to seek news of his father at Pylos
and Sparta. However, the suitors, led by
Antinous, plan to ambush him upon his return.
As Telemachus tracks Odysseus' trail
through stories from his old comrades-in-arms,
Athena arranges for the release of Odysseus from
the island of the beautiful goddess Calypso,
whose prisoner and lover he has been for the last
eight years. Odysseus sets sail on a makeshift raft,
but the sea god Poseidon, whose wrath Odysseus
incurred earlier in his adventures by blinding
Poseidon's son, the Cyclops Polyphemus,
conjures up a storm. With Athena's help,
Odysseus reaches the Phaeacians. Their princess,
Nausica, who has a crush on the handsome
warrior, opens the palace to the stranger.
Odysseus withholds his identity for as long as he
can until finally, at the Phaeacians' request, he
tells the story of his adventures.
Odysseus relates how, following the
Trojan War, his men suffered more losses at the
hands of the Kikones, then were nearly tempted to
stay on the island of the drug-addled Lotus Eaters.
Next, the Cyclops Polyphemus devoured many of
Odysseus' men before an ingenious plan of
Odysseus' allowed the rest to escape -- but not
before Odysseus revealed his name to
Polyphemus and thus started his personal war
with Poseidon. The wind god Ailos then provided
Odysseus with a bag of winds to aid his return
home, but the crew greedily opened the bag and
sent the ship to the land of the giant, man-eating
Laistrygonians, where they again barely escaped.
On their next stop, the goddess Circe
tricked Odysseus' men and turned them into pigs.
With the help of the god Hermes, Odysseus
defied her spell and metamorphosed the pigs back
into men. They stayed on her island for a year in
the lap of luxury, with Odysseus as her lover,
before moving on and resisting the temptations of
the seductive and dangerous Sirens, navigating
between the sea monster Scylla and the
whirlpools of Charybdis, and plumbing the depths
of Hades to receive a prophecy from the blind
seer Tiresias. Resting on the island of Helios,
Odysseus' men disobeyed his orders not to touch
the oxen. At sea, Zeus punished them and all but
Odysseus died in a storm. It was then that
Odysseus reached Calypso's island.
Odysseus finishes his story, and the
Phaeacians hospitably give him gifts and ferry
him home on a ship. Athena disguises Odysseus
as a beggar and instructs him to seek out his old
swineherd, Eumaeus; she will recall Telemachus
from his own travels. With Athena's help,
Telemachus avoids the suitors' ambush and
reunites with his father, who reveals his identity
only to his son and swineherd. He devises a plan
to overthrow the suitors with their help.
In disguise as a beggar, Odysseus
investigates his palace. The suitors and a few of
his old servants generally treat him rudely as
Odysseus sizes up the loyalty of Penelope and his
other servants. Penelope, who notes the
resemblance between the beggar and her
presumably dead husband, proposes a contest: she
will, at last, marry the suitor who can string
Odysseus' great bow and shoot an arrow through
a dozen axe heads.
Only Odysseus can pull off the feat.
Bow in hand, he shoots and kills the suitor
Antinous and reveals his identity. With
Telemachus, Eumaeus, and his goatherd
Philoitios at his side, Odysseus leads the massacre
of the suitors, aided only at the end by Athena.
Odysseus lovingly reunites with Penelope, his
knowledge of their bed that he built the proof that
overcomes her skepticism that he is an impostor.
Outside of town, Odysseus visits his ailing father,
Laertes, but an army of the suitors' relatives
quickly finds them. With the encouragement of a
disguised Athena, Laertes strikes down the
 ringleader, Antinous' father. Before the battle can
progress any further, Athena, on command from
Zeus, orders peace between the two sides.

Abstraction

“Do you understand the two epic poems?”

1. Who are the main characters of the story "The
Iliad?
*Who are the main characters of the story
Odyssey?

2. On the scene from the story of Odyssey : The

wind god Alios gave Odysseus with a bag of
winds to aid his return home, but the crew eagerly
opened the bag and sent the ship to the land of
giant . What can you say about the characteristics
of the crew? How can you relate this scene to real
life?

3. Another scene from the story Odyssey: Resting

on the island of Helios, Odysseus' men disobeyed
his orders not to touch the oxen that are why Zeus
punished them. In this scene, what part of the
scene you can relate to real life? Why?

4. From the story of The Iliad: Agamemnon and

Achilles quarrel viciously. Agamemnon says he
will take back Briseis, a captive woman who was
given to Achilles as a prize for valor. Horribly
dishonored, Achilles returns to his ships and
refuses to fight. For you, what characteristics that
Achilles show in this scene?

5. What is the moral lesson of the story entitled

The Iliad? The story Odyssey?

Application

“Class, I think everybody already know our topic

today, let us have a group activity.”

“I will divide you into 2 groups. Please get your

activity cards here.”

“Any representative from the group that will read

the task assigned to them.”

Group – 1 The Limelight

“Summarize the Iliad based on your own
understanding by a role play. In the end of the
play, present your realizations about the story.”
Group – 2 Lights, Camera, Action
“Summarize the Odyssey based on your
understanding by role playing. In the end of the
play, present your realizations about the story.”
 “I will give 5 minutes to brainstorm and decide of
the characters.”

“For evaluation of your outputs, here are the

criteria in grading.”

Creativeness – 20 percent
The students showcase their uniqueness when it
comes on making a concept and neatness in their
output.
– 5 points
The students are able to speak clearly and interact
with audience for them to understand the task
given to the group.
Fidelity of Content to the Topic – 40 percent
The students show the relation of their
presentation to the topic, so that the ideas will be
not shuffled.
Presentation – 40 percent
The students able to perform the play according to
the sequence of the events

“You have 10 minutes to brainstorm and finalize

the specific tasks given. Is that clear?”

“Okay start doing it now.”

“Time is up. Leaders, please pick a number to

know who will be the first to perform.”

“Okay who got number one?”

“You may start now.”

“Give yourself a round of applause.”

III. Evaluation
“Get ¼ sheet of pad paper and answer the
following.”
Directions: Identify if the statement is True or
False. Write T for TRUE and F for FALSE.

__F__1. Penelope married one of his suitors.

__T__2. Circe tricked Odysseus’ men and turned them
into pigs.
__T__3. Achilles is the Greatest Achaean Warrior.
__F__4. During the battle, Patroclus betrayed Achilles
by exposing himself to Hector.
__T__5. Achilles held a magnificent funeral for
Patroclus.
__T__6. Achilles and Priam, the Father of Hector,
reconciled and returned Hector’s body.
__F__7. Telemachus despises his father for leaving
him.
__F__8. Athena favored Odysseus and his father
Laertes and later on battled with the ringleader.
__F__9. Odysseus betrayed Penelope with Calypso and
never came back again.
__T__10. The Sea God – Poseidon hindered Odysseus
expedition in returning to Ithaca.

V. Assignment

“For your assignment, Read the story all about the

Jayson and the Argonauts and make a 200 word
reflection. Write it on a bond paper.”

Prepared by:

Dela Calzada, Charmine

Pel, Ma. Charlota
Ramos, Johnell