The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

1. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. Alice Walker

2. Gildo Rey Pen Pals Fifth Period Sixth Period

3. Hi Honey, I’m home • Only four words can be spoken: Hi Honey, I’m home. • Actors will receive cards with those words and a brief scenario. Each will make an entrance saying only the four words and using appropriate gestures and movements to convey the situation. • Actors should be aware of their face. Facials should reflect the emotion of the scenario on the card and wear it during the entrance. • Keep your scenarios a secret from other students. • You will watch each enactment and try to guess what the scenario is by observing the actor’s movements and listening to his/her voice.

4. March 20th Back on that Springboard grind: get your books, sit with table groups Page 276-278 Complete the charts for your table’s three characters • Today’s objectives • Apply concepts of justice to a new text • Infer motives of characters and predict events of plot • Choose reading strategies for difficult text

5. Zeus Poseidon Heracles Achilles Odysseus The Titans Atlantis Pegasus Saturn Hermione Percy Jackson

6. Today’s objectives • Plan and deliver a presentation that contextualizes a drama • Clarify and identify characters and their relationships • Examine performance elements of Greek tragedy March 21st • Four groups –one person from each table • One category –Tragedy, Greek Theater, Sophocles, Antigone & Family • One musical production that presents information from pages 279-281 to the rest of the class. • Songs may have familiar melody, but must have original lyrics. • Songs should have at least two verses and chorus needs to repeat three times. • Think about how you are going to perform this for your peers (a’capella, instruments, download instrumental),consider all roles • Pick a song every one knows well • Start with original lyric s and modify them as fits your needs. • Performance start Monday.

7. Today’s objectives • Plan and deliver a presentation that contextualizes a drama • Clarify and identify characters and their relationships • Examine performance elements of Greek tragedy March 25th • Musical Performances • Jeopardy Review • Jeopardy for fun? • Start reading play tomorrow –parts preview

8. Today’s objectives • Identify and apply elements of Greek Theater • Analyze character • Recognize themes within a text March 25th • If you get to a word you don’t know, just do your best and keep going. • Parts have been assigned, but can be switched if both parties agree. • First name is lead reader. Second name is understudy. • As you read, mark the text for examples of justice/injustice. P5

9. Today’s objectives • Identify and apply elements of Greek Theater • Analyze character • Recognize themes within a text • If you get to a word you don’t know, just do your best and keep going. • Parts have been assigned, but can be switched if both parties agree. • First name is lead reader. Second name is understudy. • As you read, mark the text for examples of justice/injustice. March 25th P6

10. . I know that. , Now, dear Ismene, my own blood sister, ? What is it? - Look-what’s Creon doing with our two brothers?

11. March 25th Fold a paper into 8 squares WORD Definition Symbol or Picture Intro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTIHbqo_wRw Greek Chorus (Oedipus) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD8rmXwG9ZQ Zero to Hero http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRq7lLawQB4 National Theater (3:00) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSRLK7SogvE Modern Interp of Chorus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtcZ7WIsKXs • Today’s objectives • Register for next year’s classes • Review Greek theater elements • Build vocabulary

12. March 31st • Finish reading Antigone • Creon’s Changing Character pages 327-329 on vellum paper • Antigonein-class write tomorrow • Antigone exam (MC, T/F, matching, etc) Wednesday • Outside reading journal exchange & conference prep Thursday BRING YOUR BOOK • Outside reading conferences Friday • Today’s objectives • Analyze and evaluate major characters development • Create masks, an element of ancient Greek theater

13. April 3, 2014 • Sit with your book group. • Exchange double entry journals –don’t respond yet. • We’ll go over roles for tomorrow. Each of you will have a different task. • You will move again to a groups with others who have the same task. THIS is when you’ll respond to the journals. • Mini Socratic seminars on your book tomorrow.

14. Discussion Leader: Your job is to develop a list of questions you think your group should discuss about the assigned section of the book. Use your knowledge of levels of questions to create thought-provoking questions that encourage your group to consider many ideas. Help your group explore important ideas and share their reactions. You will be in charge of leading the group’s discussion. Diction Detective: Your job is to be carefully examine the diction (word choice) in the novel. Search for words, phrases, and passages that are especially descriptive, powerful, funny, thought-provoking, surprising, or even confusing. List the words or phrases and explain why you selected them. Then, write your thoughts about why the author might have selected these words or phrases. What is the author trying to say? How does the diction help the author achieve his or her purpose? What tone do the words indicate? Bridge Builder: Your job is to build bridges between the events of the book and other people, places, or events in school, the community, or your own life. Look for connections between the text, yourself, other texts, and the world. Also, make connections between what has happened before and what might happen as the narrative continues. Look for the characters’ internal and external conflicts and the way that these conflicts influence their actions. Reporter: Your job is to identify and report on the key points of the reading. Make a list or write a summary that describes how the writer develops the setting, plot, and characters in a section of the book. Consider how characters interact, major events that occur, and shifts in the setting or the mood that seem significant. Share your report at the start of the conference to help your group focus on key ideas presented in the reading. Like that of a newspaper reporter, your report must be concise, yet thorough. Artist: Your job is to create an illustration related to the reading. It can be a sketch, cartoon, diagram, flow chart, or other depiction. You can choose to illustrate a scene, an idea, a symbol, or a character. Show your illustration to the group without any explanation. Ask each group member to respond, either by making a comment or asking a question. After everyone has responded, you may explain your illustration and answer any questions that have not been answered.