Journey Sequencing

Students reconstruct Aeneas’s journey by numbering ten scrambled events from first to last. They must recall major plot points-Carthage, the funeral rites for Anchises, the descent to the underworld, the storm sent by Juno, the war in Italy-and place them in accurate chronological order. The task builds timeline reasoning and helps students see cause-and-effect chains across the epic. Learners practice citing memory or notes to justify why one episode precedes another. The focus on sequence also prepares students for summarizing long texts succinctly. Finishing the ordering gives a coherent overview of Books I-XII that supports later analysis and writing.

Curriculum Matched Skills

English Language Arts – Reading Literature: Key Ideas and Details (sequence of events)

English Language Arts – Reading Informational Text: Chronological Structure

English Language Arts – Writing: Research and Use of Evidence (justify sequencing)

Social Studies – Historical Thinking: Chronological Reasoning (transferrable skill)

This worksheet is part of our Aeneid collection.