The Iliad Trojan War Sides Chart | Achaeans versus Trojans ELA Grades 6-12

Engage Your Students with the Trojan War Sides Chart

Bring the epic clash of the Achaeans and Trojans to life in your middle and high school ELA or Humanities classroom! This vividly designed Sides Chart, drawn directly from Homer’s Iliad, helps students track the alliances of gods and mortals throughout the Trojan War. 

Why Teachers Love It

• Instant Visual Reference: Hang it as a classroom poster or slip it into student packets for quick, on-the-fly checks of who’s fighting for whom. 
• Deepen Mythological Understanding: Clarify Hera’s fierce loyalty to the Greeks, Zeus’s puzzling neutrality, and the shifting allegiances of heroes like Achilles and Hector. 
• Flexible Classroom Use: Use it as a study guide, formative-assessment tool, or discussion prompt—whatever best fits your lesson plan. 
• Built-In Memory Game: Reinforce learning with an interactive Google Slides game. Students match deities and warriors to their sides, turning review into play. 

What’s Included

• High-resolution Sides Chart (printable PDF) 
• Editable Google Slides™ memory game 
• Teacher tips for differentiation and quick formative assessments 

Whether you’re launching a thematic unit on the Trojan War or reinforcing epic-literature terminology, this chart puts clarity—and a bit of fun—right at your students’ fingertips.

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