Antigone Unit Overview
HE9 ¤ Hamilton ¤ 2017
1.30Due: All Oedipus notes.
Antigone set-up
HW: Read and notes Antigone lines 1-525 / 1.31
Antigone
1-525
HW:
Read and notes Antigone lines 526-929 by Thursday. / 2.1
ethos, logos, pathos / 2.2
Antigone
526-929
HW: Read and notes Antigone lines 930-end by Monday. / 2.3
TBA
2.6
Antigone
930-end
HW: / 2.7
Working towards the Oedipus &/or Antigone
paper
HW: / 2.8
Working towards the Oedipus &/or Antigone
Paper
Conference Sign-Up / 2.9
LAB 40
Work time on paper
HW: Monday….
· your paper is due for conference.
· Test: Oedipus & Antigone / 2.10
TBA
2.13
Due: Oedipus &/or Antigone paper.
TBA / TEST
Oedipus & Antigone
Conferences begin again Monday 2/13
Antigone Unit Expectations:
ü Complete ALL reading response notes. You will have open note quizzes.
ü Take and keep in-class notes.
ü Written responses.
ü Vocabulary.
Antigone Unit Assessment:
We will be studying TWO of Sophocles’ plays in succession: Oedipus the King & Antigone. After we have studied BOTH plays, expect the following:
1. TEST –
Ø Character identification, short passage response, thematic development, key vocabulary.
Ø You will need to know the eight characteristics of a TRAGEDY.
2. ESSAY – You will be writing a multi-page ARGUMENT essay.
Ø You will choose an inquiry question from a list that we generate in-class.
Ex. Which is more powerful: ignorance or knowledge? Is Antigone a hero? Can rebellion be just leadership? Can a leader work in his or her own best interest and be a just hero?
Ø You will define the key term(s) in your essay.
Ø Based on the definition of your key terms, you will argue a point.
Ø You will examine the validity of at least two different points of view in your argument.
To do well on the final test and essay, it will be extremely important that you keep good notes during class.Antigone
Characters to know & watch
o Creon (kree - on)
o Antigone (an – tig – o - nee)
o Ismene (izh – meh – nee)
o Eteocles (ee – tee – awk – lees)
o Polyneices (pol – uh – nahy – seez)
o Haemon (hay – mon)
o Teiresias (tah – ree – see – us)
Notes starters
1-525· How does Creon define justice? Why? What is his context?
· How does Antigone define justice? Why? What is her context?
· How do the sisters Antigone & Ismene view one another? What contexts influence these perceptions?
“You have a warm heart for such chilly deeds”
526-929
· Haemon is a powerful rhetorician. How does the way he speak (the words he says and the order he says them in) respond to the context or situation he is in and still help him to achieve his purpose? If you need help thinking about this question, consider how Haemon uses ethos (credibility), logos (logic), and pathos (appeal to emotion) in his speech?
CREON: My enemy is still my enemy, even in death.
ANTIGONE: My nature is to join in love, not hate.
930-end
· What truths does Tiresias bring this time? And for whom?
“All men
Can make mistakes; but, once mistaken,
A man is no longer stupid nor accursed
Who, having fallen on ill, tries to cure that ill,
Not taking a fine undeviating stand.
It is obstinacy that convicts of folly.”
Key Ideas: honor, loyalty, obedience, rebellion, pride, family