The Homeric Epic | Iliad and Odyssey Greek Mythology Units for Grades 7-12 ELA

The Iliad and the Odyssey: Diving into the Homeric Epic Teaching Homer’s two classic epics is no easy feat, even for the seasoned teacher. With these fantastic, easy-to-use unit resources—exploring the wrath of Achilles, the power of Agamemnon, and the journey of Odysseus to reach Ithaca to be with Penelope and Telemachus—becomes a whole lot easier. Students and teachers will appreciate the richly illustrated reading cards, the abundant question sets, writing prompts, and further reading guides.

This all-in-one bundle includes entire units on Homer’s epics The Iliad & The Odyssey, with supplemental lessons on ‘Thetis and Achilles,’ and ‘Athena as Mentor’. The bundle comes chock full with key character profiles, maps, background information, question sets, reading cards, and exciting connections to art and literature. This resource is crafted with love and care for educational use in a classroom setting, so dive in and let your imagination soar!

This Resource Includes the Following Features:

• Homer, Blind Poet
  • Key Characters and Concepts Anchor Chart
  • 2 reading cards (includes reading tasks)
  • 10-count question bank
  • Student choice exit ticket
  • Further reading guides and answer keys
• The Iliad
  • Key Characters Anchor Chart
  • 26 reading cards (with text-dependent questions)
  • 242-count question bank
  • Critical thinking questions
  • Exit tickets
  • Further reading guides and answer keys
• Thetis and Achilles
  • Complete 3-day lesson with reading cards, question sets, and everything you need to supplement your students’ reading of The Iliad.
• The Odyssey
  • Key Characters Anchor Chart
  • 27 reading cards
  • 285-count question bank
  • Critical thinking questions
  • Exit tickets
  • Further reading guides and answer keys
• Athena as Mentor
  • Complete 2-day lesson with reading cards, question sets, and everything you need to supplement your students’ reading of The Odyssey.

Bonus: ‘Iliad’ — Sides of the Trojan War: Achaeans and Allies vs. Trojans and Complete Standards Alignment Chart and Crosswalk (Common Core, VA SOL, and TEKS) 

Integrate your lesson with included question sets, vocabulary materials, writing prompts, art and literature connections, and cool note-taking templates (and more — this resource is incredibly jam-packed!). Note — each lesson pack comes equipped with PDF and Google Workspace

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

• To teach The Iliad and The Odyssey
• For any myth-related unit!
• On characteristics of home, nostos, in medias res, war and peace, The Trojan War, domestic crisis, gods and men, and more.
• Note that this bundle does include full-text, original, and public domain material of the myths and adequate links to a host of access points to external sources of the stories! The resource does not include copyrighted material not belong to Stones of Erasmus.
• Use this resource as a stand-alone unit or pair it with a course on the epic, Robert Graves’s Greek Myths, Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, Virgil‘s Aeneid, or any Greek and Roman mythology unit.