01 Friday Dec 2017
Posted in agenda, Antigone, direct instruction, film viewing
learning goal: how did Antigone create empathy in its original audience?
hand-outs: empathy article, K. Armstrong excerpts
mark a sentence on each side of the K. Armstrong sheet
watch opening of Oedipus film (1957, Sir Tyrone Guthrie)
29 Wednesday Nov 2017
Posted in Antigone, assessment, email, feedback
By the start of your Fri/Mon class, please have replied to the email instructions you received shortly after the discussion with Dr. Pendrick earlier this week.
Thank you.
29 Wednesday Nov 2017
Posted in agenda, Antigone, discussion
learning goal: I used to think ______ about the play, but now I think ________
membean 15′
other Antigone questions
time to discuss ANTIGONE with Dr. Pendrick
follow-up exercise
27 Monday Nov 2017
Posted in agenda, Antigone, discussion, email
learning goal: which one of these questions draws me in more than the others? why?
20-20-20
20 reading/reviewing last 500 lines
20 small-group discussion of the Kendrick questions
20 to compose email described below
In an email to bill.brown@hies org (subject line: “current thoughts about ANTIGONE”),
explain your current thinking about one or more of the questions below,
remembering that the email will be assessed for its clarity, specificity and development.
In other words, how clearly does it express its ideas and how well does it develop those ideas with specific references to lines of the text (with line numbers cited)
QUESTIONS (from Mr. Jerry Pendrick)
17 Friday Nov 2017
Posted in Antigone, discussion, general information
Some questions/comments from Mr. Jerry Pendrick, Classics Scholar, who will visit our classes after Thanksgiving. Consider these questions about Antigone. If these give rise to others, great! Bring your ideas and questions back to school. Mr. Kendrick is excited to discuss Sophocles’ play with you. BTW, he has read it in the original Greek.
“Most modern readers sympathize strongly with Antigone. In democratic Athens, how would the audience feel about Antigone — who is essentially a princess and daughter of the (former) king, a sort of Ivanka Trump figure, a member of the “1%” of Athenian society — asserting her right to disobey laws she happens to disagree with?
What exactly are Antigone’s motives for disobeying Creon’s edict? Are they religious, as her famous speech at lines 450–457 suggest? Or are they purely personal, as her speech at 920ff suggests? Is she a consistent character who operates from consistent principles/motives?
The plot of the play proves that Creon was ultimately in the wrong. Does it also prove that Antigone was ultimately in the right? Why or why not? A related question is: what actually does it mean to be an Athenian tragedy?
This should provide enough fodder for discussion.”
15 Wednesday Nov 2017
Posted in Antigone, homework, reading, Uncategorized
. . . and if you have not already, see this post about post-Thanksgiving discussion of the play
13 Monday Nov 2017
Posted in agenda, Antigone, direct instruction, reading
learning goal: by mid-play, how has the central conflict intensified? what is the central conflict?
scene sheet distributed and added to
reading together aloud
09 Thursday Nov 2017
Posted in agenda, Antigone, direct instruction, reading
learning goal: using Sophocles’ play as a test, how does the basic dialogue form intensify conflict, especially in lines 364-804?
OCC demo and assignment (maybe next week?)
intro to notes on balance and energy (TBA)
PDF due next Poetry Day (W/Th Nov 15/16): on either of the two poems left after your first PDF
reading aloud together: today’s (ambitious) goal is line 804
praise of man, man’s laws (obedience) vs. gods’ laws (justice), emotion in tyrants (Kreon), sister joins sister late, me/my/mine (ll.578, 591-2), ping-pong dialogue,
07 Tuesday Nov 2017
Posted in agenda, Antigone, direct instruction, listening, reading
learning goal: what scene stays in my memory most? why?
start reading Antigone together aloud, aiming to reach line 363 by the end of this class
31 Tuesday Oct 2017
Posted in agenda, Antigone, direct instruction, reading
learning goal: what are the several basic differences between short stories and plays?
clarify Empathy Essay timeline
intro to Sophocles’ play Antigone
brief background
mechanical exercise
reading time
