Lesson plan

Teacher notes analyze the characters, plots, and themes of the Oresteia trilogy.

Thirteen days of lesson plans guide a class through Greek drama and the Oresteia.

Lesson plan for Durant's essay on the conditions of civilization, with study questions and answers.

Lesson plan on the history of the epic, its discovery, the Sumerians, and the folk epic.

Lesson plan for the first part of the epic, with study questions and answers.

Lesson plan on the death of Enkidu, the search for everlasting life, and the Flood.

Lesson plan on the return and death of Gilgamesh, with analysis questions on Sumerian civilization.

Lesson plan for the day of the Durant and Gilgamesh test.

Lesson plan on allusion and its function in poetry, with Robinson's "Miniver Cheevy" and Cummings's "in Just-."

Lesson plan for analyzing the Yeats and Updike poems in the comparison essay prompt.

Plan for the day students write a timed essay on "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."

Lesson plan on the speaker, the listener, and the dramatic irony of Browning's "My Last Duchess."