A2: Looks Funny to Me
Lawrence Scott Ondovchik
February 14, 2013
“The Judgment of Paris and the Trojan War”
A2: Looks Funny to Me
Story
Target Curriculum and Audience
The target curriculum is 9th Grade Literature and Composition. The audience is the students
enrolled in the class.
Georgia Performance Common Core State Standards
ELACC9 – 10RL1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the
text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
ELACC9 – 10RL2: Determine a theme or central idea of text and analyze in detail its
development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and
refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
ELACC9 – 10RL3: Analyze how complex characters (e.g. those with multiple or conflicting
motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance
the plot or develop the theme.
ELACC9 – 10RL5: Analyze how an author’s choice concerning how to structure a text, order
events within it (e.g. parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g. pacing, flashbacks) create
such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
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ELACC9 – 10RI1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the
text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
ELACC9 – 10RI2: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the
course of a text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details;
provide an objective summary of the text.
ELACC9 – 10RI3: Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events,
including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed,
and the connections that are drawn between them.
ELACC9 – 10SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions
(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts,
and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
ELACC9 – 10SL2: Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or
formats (e.g. visually, quantitatively, and orally) or evaluating the credibility and accuracy
of each source.
ELACC9 – 10SL5: Make strategies use of digital media (e.g. textual, graphical, audio, visual,
and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning,
and evidence and to add interest.
Characters
Paris, Prince of Troy Athena, Goddess of Wisdom Hera, Goddess of Women and Marriage
Aphrodite, Goddess of Love and Beauty
Menelaus, King of Sparta
Helen of Sparta
Zeus, King of the Gods
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Eris, Goddess of Discord
Odysseus, a great Greek Warrior
Day 1: The Marriage of Peleus and Thetis
The goddess of discord was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. She was very
irritated by her lack of invitation and showed up to the wedding anyway. There she threw
into the festivities, a golden apple. Inscribed on the apple, it said “for the fairest.” Hera,
Athena, and Aphrodite all three claimed the apple for herself.
Dialogue
Eris: “Not invite me to the wedding? I’ll show them”
“this is for the fairest of them all!”
Hera: “It is mine; I am the queen of the gods”
Athena: “It belongs to me; I am the goddess of wisdom”
Aphrodite: “Nonsense, it is mine; I am after all the goddess of love and beauty”
All three: “Zeus, you decide!”
Day 2: Paris and Mt. Ida
Zeus claims that Paris, a Trojan man will decide. He sends the three goddesses to find him
on Mt Ida.
There Paris is faced with deciding between the three goddesses and what each one has to
offer!
Dialogue
Zeus: “It is not for me to decide- go see Paris on Mt. Ida, he will decide”
Hera: “Paris, I will make you king of Europe and Asia”
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Athena: “I will give you wisdom and skill in battle”
Aphrodite: “I will give you the most beautiful woman in the world!”
Paris: “hmm, who should I choose?”
Day 3: Helen of Sparta
Paris chooses Aphrodite and she in turn tell him that Helen of Sparta is the most beautiful
woman in the world. Paris travels to Sparta where he is greeted as a guest. As soon as
King Menelaus leaves, Paris steals Helen and takes her to Troy.
Dialogue
Paris: “I choose Aphrodite”
Aphrodite: “Good choice, the most beautiful woman in Helen, she lives in Sparta”
Menelaus: “You are welcome here in my home”
Paris: “thank you, your wife is really hot!”
Menelaus: “I must leave you for a few days and travel”
Paris: “Come on Helen, lets go back to my place”
Helen: “What should I do?”
Day 4: The Trojan War
Helen decides to go with Paris because Aphrodite has caused Helen to love Paris. Menelaus
returns home to find Helen missing and goes after Paris. He calls on all the Greeks to
support him in his journey to Troy.
Dialogue
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Helen: “Yes I’ll go with you Paris”
Menelaus: “Where is my wife? I’ll get you Paris”
Menelaus: “Fellow Greeks, help me defeat Troy and get my wife back?
Greeks: “We support you Menelaus; We will launch a thousand ships to get her back!”
Day 5: The Trojan War cont.
Menelaus and the Greeks arrive at Troy; they battle for 10 years and lose many lives
including Achilles. They find the walls impenetrable.
Dialogue
Greeks: “We will destroy the Trojans”
Greeks: “We can’t get through the walls of Troy”
Achilles: “Owe, my heel”
Menelaus: “Achilles is dead!”
Odysseus: “I have an idea to defeat the Trojans!”
Day 6: The Trojan Horse
Odysseus tells them of his Trojan horse idea. The build the Trojan horse and deliver it to
the Trojan, the Trojans fall for it and the Greeks defeat the Trojans. Everyone begins to sail
home but Odysseus gets lost on the way home.
Dialogue
Greeks: “Trojans, we give up, accept this horse as our gift, we are leaving now!”
Greeks: “We win!! Victory for Greece.”
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Odysseus: “I am ready to go home, I hope I don’t get lost…”
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