Teach Plato’s Allegory of the Cave in Plain Language —“the prisoner who escaped and learned the truth about reality” — with an engaging, fully editable 60-minute Google Slides deck for middle and high school.
What’s Included:
- 1 PDF Container with Teacher’s Notes
- 1 Standards Aligned Slide Deck
- Essential Question with Student-Facing Do Now
- Introducing Terms
- Gist Summary Activity
- Illustration of the Cave
- Reading Comprehension — Pair Work
- Whole Class Discussion
- Interpreting the Allegory
- Media and Personal Reality
- Plato’s Two World Theory
- Plato’s Divided Line
- Extensions and Connections
- Standards Map
- Suggested Use
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