Hook, Housekeeping, & Homework MONDAY

1. Hook, Housekeeping, & Homework MONDAY Welcome Back! How was your break? What did you do? Did you attend Palmer’s play and complete the extension activity? Place it in the basket. Homework: INDEPENDENT NOVEL • MAJOR WORKS INFORMATION ORGANIZER • CONSIDER KEY PASSAGE • PREPARE YOUR PRESENTATION • Read Oedipus Rex

2. Past, Present, FutureMONDAY • Timed Writing on Poetry! • Models & Self-assessment • Drama: The Classic Tragic Figure • Pre-Reading + Read Oedipus Rex (first play of Oedipus Cycle) • INDEPENDENT NOVEL • MAJOR WORKS INFORMATION ORGANIZER • CONSIDER KEY PASSAGE • PREPARE YOUR PRESENTATION • Read Oedipus Rex • In-class timed writing on Independent Novel • PREPARE YOUR PRESENTATION; they start Wednesday • Quotes Quiz (Character ID) on Oedipus Rex

3. Activities: Develop & Apply Please use today’s class time to quietly work on one of the following: • INDEPENDENT NOVEL • MAJOR WORKS INFORMATION ORGANIZER – “models” available • CONSIDER KEY PASSAGE – “models” available • You may only use your MWIO (and a copy of the novel) during the in-class assessment • PREPARE YOUR PRESENTATION • Read Oedipus Rex - Note-taking sheet available • Whoare the characters? How are they “related”? • What are they like (personality traits)? How do you know (say, do, react)? • How do they interact? Consider memorable quotes (like we do on MWIO) • What is the setting? What is significant about the opening scene? • What is the conflict? • What is the resolution? What is significant about the closing scene?

4. Activity: Let’s get started right away!Tuesday Purpose: to show what you know about your novel/play and practice writing for Question 3 of the AP Literature timed exam Tasks: Independent Reading Novel/Play Key Passage (In-class Timed Writing) • Have out your MWIO and 2-3 sheets of notebook paper • Write a proper heading and center the title “Independent Reading Timed Writing” • Read through the prompt sheet • You have this class period only to… • Dissect the Prompt • Write an Introductory Paragraph • Write Body Paragraphs • Follow PIE • DON’T FORGET: Concluding Sentence = consider the passage’s relevance to the work as a whole • Next SliceS of PIE… and then… • Occasionally STOP and re-re-read your own thesis and writing. Are you still on track? Note the time, too! • Write a Concluding Paragraph • SAVE TIME to re-read, edit, etc. • Outcome: Staple together: Back-side of this sheet facing up, your written essay beneath it, your MWIO on the bottom (last). HOMEWORK: Are you presenting your novel/play tomorrow? Have you read Oedipus Rex?

5. Hook, Housekeeping & Homework WEDNESDAY Are you presenting your novel today? If so, get ready! Bring up anything (slide show, sound, etc.) you need to now on the computer and minimize it at the bottom of the screen. Homework: Have you read and reviewed Oedipus Rex?! Read Antigone for Friday! When is your novel presentation? Be prepared to do a 5-minute presentation of the following: • Attention Grabber (song or other art) • Brief Plot Summary • 3 Essential/Inquiry Questions – What big questions does your work seem to answer or respond to? • Statement of Theme/Universal Understanding (hopefully “in response” to one of your essential questions) • 1 AP Question 3 & Why/How (this novel would be appropriate to use in response to the prompt) • Who should or would enjoy reading this text and why? Did you enjoy reading this novel? Why or why not?

6. Past, Present, FutureWEDNESDAY • Work Time • INDEPENDENT NOVEL • Read Oedipus Rex • In-class timed writing on Independent Novel • Independent Novel PRESENTATIONS • Read Antigone (last play of Trilogy) for Friday • Quotes Quiz (Character ID) on Oedipus Rex • Characterization

7. Presentations Audience: please clear your desks and listen respectfully and attentively • Keep in mind, you will be selecting 2 more AP novels/plays for Semester 2, so pay attention to ones you might be interested in reading and/or present similar ideas Presenters: Let’s DO this! • 5-minute presentation • Attention Grabber (song or other art) • Brief Plot Summary • 3 Essential/Inquiry Questions – What big questions does your work seem to answer or respond to? • Statement of Theme/Universal Understanding (hopefully “in response” to one of your essential questions) • 1 AP Question 3 & Why/How (this novel would be appropriate to use in response to the prompt) • Who should or would enjoy reading this text and why? Did you enjoy reading this novel? Why or why not? • Read Antigone for Friday! + Returns

8. Hook, Housekeeping & Homework THURSDAY Are you presenting your novel today? If so, get ready! Bring up anything (slide show, sound, etc.) you need to now on the computer and minimize it at the bottom of the screen. While you wait … Solve the Riddle of the Sphinx • Version #1 "A thing there is whose voice is one; Whose feet are four and two and three. So mutable a thing is none That moves in earth or sky or sea. When on most feet this thing doth go, Its strength is weakest and its pace most slow.” • Version #2: "What is that which has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed?” • Version #3: What goes on four feet in the morning, two feet at noon, and three feet in the evening?" •  “Man” • "a pastoral society” How is this riddle tied to our play?!

9. Past, Present, Future • Work Time: INDEPENDENT NOVEL + Read Oedipus Rex • In-class timed writing on Independent Novel • Independent Novel PRESENTATIONS • Independent Novel Presentation(s) • Oedipus Rex • Quiz • Characterization – I DO STEAL • Read Antigone for Friday! • Antigone • Characterization – WE DO STEAL

10. Drama: The Classic Tragic Figure Standard 2: Reading for All Purposes 1.Literary criticism of complex texts requires the use of analysis, interpretive, and evaluative strategies Objectives: You will be able toexamine characterization. • Analyze and explain the purpose and effect of characters’ roles: traits perspectives, dilemmas and decisions, and how these impact and support theme Inquiry/Essential Questions: • How are characters developed? What can we learn about a character through what he/she says, does, reacts/interacts with others, is associated with and/or appears? • Why do the characters make the decisions they do? Do the characters in this play act out a sense of pride? Justice? Authority? Personal needs? What happens as a result?Why is their need to act the way they do so important to them? • Thematic Topics: What do these plays and their characters “say” about…? Fate vs. Free will - Pride/Hubris – Justice – Wisdom – Morality – Integrity – Dilemma – Tolerance

11. Activity: QuizInstruction: Obtain Purpose: to practice a close reading ritual through the lens of characterization and its impact on the meaning of the work as whole Tasks: • Complete your characters Quotes Quiz (1 OR 2) – Turn in BOTH • As you finish, grab the 2 sheets about Characterization and start to read through the one on “Types of Characters in Fiction” • Circle the Wagon - Large group instruction – Characterization of Oedipus in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles • You will examine Antigone in the same way Oedipus at Colonus(summary – or feel free to read it) Homework: Finish reading the play Antigone (last in The Oedipus Cycle) by Friday and use the sticky notes to mark the text for STEAL.

12. Themes • How much control does one have over his/her destiny (or are there larger powers that we should not question)? No one can run from fate; however, humans still have some free will . (Dog on a chain) • Even the good and mighty can fall; it is the gods who are in charge of our destiny. • Is there justice in a world where the worst can happen to the best? • Humans are essentially powerless, however, we do have the power to seek the truth. • Some of the most important attributes we can possess (strength, courage, loyalty to self , others, and society) and be our downfall and ruin. • The pursuit of knowledge and truth and can be a powerful tool but can also lead to understandings that we are not capable of handling. Honesty and truthfulness are not necessarily good. We often only see what we want to see. “The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.” • Guilt can be a driving force to our own destruction and the destruction of others. • We often desire the truth and yet desire to avoid it in order to put off the inevitable or reality. We often ignore the most obvious signs.

13. AP = Ambiguity Possible Address the Prompt Analysis, Please Always Poetry Alternative Perspectives Also Prose Applied Practice “Anything’s” Possible? Absolute Paradise

14. Hook, Housekeeping & Homework FRIDAY Are you presenting your novel today? If so, get ready! Bring up anything (slide show, sound, etc.) you need to now on the computer and minimize it at the bottom of the screen. While you wait … • Write your first & last name on the slip of paper • Then write a # corresponding to the statement that best represents you: #1 Read, Understand, & Could Do Well on a Quiz on Antigone #2 Read & Understand Antigone #3 Quickly Read Antigone #4Read Some to Most of Antigone #5 Read Parts of Antigone and/or Tried to Use Other Sources About It, But Don’t Really Know Much #6 Did Not Read Antigone; Don’t Have a Clue About It TURN THIS SLIP INTO THE BASKET UP FRONT AND GRAB A NEW BLUE SHEET AND START READING & ANOTATING IT!

15. Past, Present, FutureFRIDAY • In-class timed writing on Independent Novel • Independent Novel PRESENTATIONS • Oedipus Rex – Quiz + Characterization – I DO STEAL • Independent Novel Presentation(s) • Antigone– Characterization • We Do STEAL + Prep for Monday assignment • Antigone • Creative Characterization assignment (due by end of class)

16. Drama: The Classic Tragic Figure Standard 2: Reading for All Purposes 1.Literary criticism of complex texts requires the use of analysis, interpretive, and evaluative strategies Objectives: You will be able toexamine characterization. • Analyze and explain the purpose and effect of characters’ roles: traits, perspectives, dilemmas and decisions, and how these impact and support theme Inquiry/Essential Questions: • How are characters developed? What can we learn about a character through what he/she says, does, reacts/interacts with others, is associated with and/or appears? • Why do the characters make the decisions they do? Do the characters in this play act out a sense of pride? Justice? Authority? Personal needs? What happens as a result?Why is their need to act the way they do so important to them? • Thematic Topics: What do these plays and their characters “say” about…? Fate vs. Free will - Pride/Hubris – Justice – Wisdom – Morality – Integrity – Dilemma – Tolerance

17. Activity: QuizInstruction: Obtain Purpose: to practice a close reading ritual through the lens of characterization and its impact on the meaning of the work as whole Tasks: • Using your handouts on characterization, complete a STEAL chart for Antigone. Your group may select either Antigone or Creon to examine. • Make sure your include a variety of characterization illustrations ( e.g. S, E, A of STEAL) • Try to complete at least 6 entries that cover the beginning, middle, and end of the play. • Turn this chart in on Monday after/when you complete the Outcome (see next) Homework: Prepare ideas for your Creative Characterization of Antigone Outcome:Creative Characterization of Antigone due by the end of class Monday

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19. Themes • How much control does one have over his/her destiny (or are there larger powers that we should not question)? No one can run from fate; however, humans are able to use free will in how we respond to fate • Even the good and mighty can fall; it is the gods who are in charge of our destiny. • Is there justice in a world where the worst can happen to the best? • Humans are essentially powerless, however, we do have the power to seek the truth. (Dog on a chain) • Guilt can be a driving force to our own destruction and the destruction of others. • Some of the most important attributes we can possess (strength, courage, loyalty to self , others, and society) and be our downfall and ruin. • The pursuit of knowledge and truth and can a powerful tool but can also lead to understandings that we are not capable of handling. Honest and truthfulness are not necessarily good. We often only see what we want to see. “The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.” • We often desire the truth and yet desire to avoid it in order to put off the inevitable or reality. We often ignore the most obvious signs.

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