The Republic teacher pack
Five weeks of lessons on The Republic for ages 14 to 18: a plan, a worksheet and the answers for each week, a final essay with a marking guide, and a reading certificate to print. Free to use in class.
Five weeks, week by week
- Week 1Books 1 to 2
Socrates tests competing accounts of justice and begins an imagined city to examine whether justice benefits people without rewards.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 2Books 3 to 4
Rules for guardians' education lead into Socrates's account of civic justice, proper work, and the happiness of the whole city.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 3Books 5 to 6
Socrates proposes shared guardian life and women's public service, then defends philosophical rule against charges of uselessness and corruption.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 4Books 7 to 8
The cave connects education with governing duty, while political decline reveals how neglected education and ruling desires divide cities.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 5Books 9 to 10
Socrates contrasts tyrannical desire with rational self-rule, challenges imitative poetry, and begins an argument for the soul's immortality.
Plan · worksheet · answers
Assessment
Final essay
Three questions to choose from, 800 to 1,200 words, with a marking guide in four bands.
Quiz bank
The 30 questions and 40 flashcards online, for homework or a quick check in class. Open the quiz
Discussion
Questions for small groups, meeting by meeting. The book club kit
Reading certificate
Certificate of reading
Student's name
has read
The Republic
by Plato
Teacher and class
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