55-character title tag Menelaus & Agamemnon: Call to Troy Lesson Gr 7-12

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The Assembly at Aulis & The Trojan War | Comprehensive ELA Guide for Grades 7-12

What happens to Iphigenia at Aulis? Discover the backstory of Agamemnon and his daughter Iphigenia, as most famously told in Euripides’s Iphigenia at Aulis. The study guide and lesson contained in this educational download enrich the reading experience of epic literature with additional depth and drama. Explore the tragic story and relationship to the Trojan War (and the question of mob mentality and sacrifice) with this ingenious 2-day+ lesson pack.

This Resource Includes the Following Features:

Available as a PDF, Google Slides
1 Teacher Two-day Lesson Calendar (with Extension Activities & Teacher’s Notes)
1 Key Characters and Places Anchor Chart
- Orient your learners by identifying the key characters and the geographical location that situates the drama at the Greek port city of Aulis. Includes a map activity!
Illustrated Reading Card:
- Iphigenia at Aulis
  - Introduction and the Story of Iphigenia
  - Agamemnon and Artemis’s Sacred Grove
  - Telephus’s Wound
  - Orestes and Pylades
  - Conflicting Versions of the Story’s Conclusion
- Includes a Student-Friendly Reading Protocol.
17-Count Question Bank
- Check for understanding with a quick and adaptable question bank.
- Includes a Custom Note-taking template to ensure student accountability!
Frayer Model Vocabulary Cards
- Frayer models are a way to get kids to think about vocabulary visually in a four-section square —- A square for meaning, one for examples, another for non-examples, and a sketch. It is amazing to see the work they produce. A great way to decorate your classroom to showcase your kids’ vocabulary-in-text understanding. The cards can contain terms, geography, challenging words (as well as contextual entries that fit the story).
3-2-1 Exit Ticket
- Exit tickets are a way to get data about your students’ understanding of the lesson right before the class is finished. Collect these exit tickets and quickly see what your students have learned.
Literary Analysis and Research Writing Activity
- Using literary analysis, and research skills, the writing activity is a summative assessment for the lesson, asking students to examine Agamemnon’s tragic decision, using textual evidence, and an anthropological understanding of the myth against the backdrop of ancient Greek culture and history.
1 Further Reading List
- Don’t disregard this further reading list if you think it is merely a bibliography. Share the list with your students or have them do projects based on the available research. Assign different sources to students and organize presentations where learning can go deeper into the story.
Answer Keys for all student-facing documents
- Teachers always ask for answer keys for my products, so I guide you on what to expect from students in their written and oral responses.
- Standards Alignment Chart (Common Core, VA SOL, TEKS)

I created this resource with high school students in mind. It is designed for an English Language Arts Mythology unit —

Encourage students to talk about the limits of democratic decision-making, mob mentality, groupthink, sacrifice, the role of women in mythology, gender roles, war, and the allure of the mythological imagination.
Use this resource as a stand-alone lesson or pair it with a larger unit on The Iliad, Euripides’s play Iphigenia at Aulis, Robert Graves’s Greek Myths, or Edith Hamilton’s Mythology.

Know that this educational digital download supplements a unit on Graeco-Roman Mythology. The lesson does include public domain content, original content, and links to full-text primary resources online; however, it does not include material that would violate the intellectual rights of any author or entity.

Special thanks to the New York Public Library Digital Collections for making a tremendous amount of public domain material available to the general public. You can navigate your web browser to my website, Stones of Erasmus, to follow me on my journey. For questions, to report errata, and to receive help, email support@stonesoferasmus.