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ANTIGONE:
A TENTATIVE SCHEDULE/SYLLABUS
This
schedule/syllabus is subject to change or revision.
A dictionary to look up vocabulary word homework
Day
One of Antigone Unit
A) Pretest of Unit (30 minutes)
B) PowerPoint about
Ancient Greece and background for Antigone Unit (20 minutes, with discussion/talk
about slides)
(20-
minutes)
C) We read Antigone,
first section, pages 672-677 in the classbook, Lines 1-410 in the paperback
copy of Antigone , from the Richard Emil Braun translation from Barnes and
Noble. (paperback copy of Antigone is not required). We are reading until
the sentry leaves Creons (sp - needs an apostrophe) audience after being in
danger for his life. See the class website for additional links and help on
the readings and/or Antigone Unit.
(20
minutes)
We
will break into our new groups today, depending on time. The groups will answer
the study questions that we will discuss tomorrow.
Today:
We have an overview of Ancient Greece, Sophocles, Greek culture, their gods
and goddesses, mythology, Greek theater in a PowerPoint presentation.
About
the Antigone Folder: Each student
will have an Antigone Folder. The Antigone Folder is to be kept with (1) Notes
from Class (2) Group notes (3) Assigned reflections/writing (4) Flyers from
the Unit. See below for how the folder is to be organized.
The
folder will be a one inch to two inch folder (depending on how big the chosen
student projects will be) that the students will decorate this week and on
the weekend. Judging of folders will take place next Friday. Students will
be judged for originality, balance of composition, use of color and design,
etc. The cover of the folder should say Antigone Folder. Inside, divisions
will be made with dividers. The dividers will say:
Students
will make a cover page and a Table of Contents for their folder. After the
folder is completed, students will number the pages by hand in the lower middle
part of each page.
Corrected
assignments and tests will be kept in the folder. It will be up to each student
to keep his or her folder neat and organized. Completed folders will be graded
for neatness, completeness, quality of note-taking, and organization. This
folder activity will be part of the Personal Growth Plan, and help with class
material organization.
(10
minutes)
Pre-test
The
pretest on Day One of the Unit will measure each studentÕs understanding of
Greek theater, the Freytag Pyramid, Greek mythology, and some vocabulary words.
This pretest will not be graded. It will see where the students are as far
as their prior knowledge of this unit.
We
read Antigone today and answer the first Study Guide question in new groups
today if time permits. Students will bring the completed Study Guide to class
to hand in at the beginning of class for a grade.
Pretest
Questions:
choragus,
chorus, doddering, sententious, anarchist, tragedy, sultry, Mt. Olympus, Niobe,
compulsive, transcend, deference, subordinate, malicious, anarchy slacken,perverse,
Maenad, Mount Parnassos, Pluto, Athena, lamentation, dirge, civic, submission,
rash (adj)
Overview
from the Classzone site:
The
reading for tonight:
In
the battle for the throne of Thebes, Antigone_s (_ is an apostrophe) brother
Eteocles has died defending the city, while her brother Polyneices has died
attacking it. Creon, the king of Thebes, has sworn that although Eteocles
has been given a soldier's funeral, Polyneices_ (parenthesis missing here)
body will remain unburied.
Each
student may purchase a paperback copy of Antigone or read the textbook version
as homework. We will be using the textbook every day in class. We will be
reading selected passages of the play in class and answering questions about
the reading.
DAILY
NOTES: students will keep notes every day for class of presentations and lecture
materials. Notes and folders will be graded weekly. Each daily notes entry
will be graded for:
Use
a dark pen for notes, as a dark pen is easier to read. Notes may be kept on
lined or unlined paper. Please try to obtain paper that is not torn from a
ringed notebook. This paper tends to split off on the edges.
Students
will write for 5 minutes in their class journals:
(5
minutes)
HOMEWORK:
Read
page 666 and 667 in your book about The Greek Theater and background to the
play Antigone. This will help your understanding of the play. Take
at least one page of notes, either handwritten or typed. Put these in your
Antigone folder in the notes section. Each student will look up Vocabulary
words each day and put the definitions in their Antigone folder to have for
the quiz on Friday. Students will fill out the Study Guide below to turn in
at the beginning of class:
Questions
for Day One Reading of Antigone: (to be filled out as homework and turned
in tomorrow before class)
1. What differences do you notice between Antigone and her sister,
Ismene?
2.
Why do you think that Ismene will not help her sister with her plan?
3.
Do you think Antigone has thought her decision through? Why or why not?
4.
Why does Antigone get so angry at her sister? Do you think that Ismene is
being practical or that she is being cowardly? What reasons do you have for
that opinion?
5.
Do you think that CreonÕs punishment of Polyneices is just and fair?
Vocabulary
words for today: yawning, swagger, matchless, absolute, choragus, chorus,
sentry, doddering, intolerable, demoralizing, sententious, anarchist, senile,
hubris, tragedy.
Each
group will illustrate one word each on Word Cards today or next period to
help everyone learn the vocabulary words. (20 minutes)
We
will have a vocabulary quiz on Friday covering the words and names learned
this week.
Names
for today: Creon, Oedipus, Ismene, Antigone, Eteocles, Polyneices, Zeus.
Study
hint: You can use study skills at the Study Skills website to help you remember
vocabulary, words, and concepts. See the Study Skills websites at:
http://betsyanne.com/Study_skills2.html
HOMEWORK AT HOME: Write down three questions about the reading that you would like answered tomorrow. We will collect these questions. Each question should have your name on it.
1:
Students hand in their Study Guide questions for a grade. Vocabulary definitions
will be kept in the students_ (an apostrophe goes here) Antigone study folder.
2:
Students will receive any handouts and the Homework Reading study guide for
tomorrow.
Each
student will write three questions that they would like answered from the
reading they did yesterday or as homework and they will go into the Reading
Question Box. The students will draw three questions from this box to answer.
Students will take notes today to go into their Antigone folders.
After
the class answers each question, the students will be quizzed on two or three
of them without looking at their notes. They will hand this quiz in for a
grade. Each will have their name and class period at the top.
(20
minutes)
The
students will write two paragraphs about a time that they felt that they had
to do something that was right that went against what other people wanted
them to do. They will hand these in for a grade.
(10
minutes)
Antigone
Journal Question (10 minutes): What do you think will happen next in this
play? Justify your answer (give reasons for your opinion). This question will
be done during class and will be turned in for a grade. Date this question
and put your name on it, then hand it in to Mrs. Sheppard_s
(space for apostrophe) IN box on her desk.
After
students get this paper back, it will go into the Notes from Class section
of the Antigone folder.
(10
minutes)
Explain:
students have until Monday to purchase or obtain their Antigone folders to
decorate. They can decorate their folders at home or during class. Judging
of folders will take place on next Friday.
Students
will write for 5 minutes in their class journals:
What did we do today?
What
did I learn from the lesson today?
(5
minutes)
HOMEWORK/READING
ASSIGNMENT FOR TODAY:
Students will read page 677 through 681 today in the textbook. We will read part of or all of this assignment in class if there is time. The students will complete the reading at home, or during SSR time (Selected Silent Reading time). The selected reading ends when the guards escort Ismene and Antigone into the palace, and Creon follows. This is line 160 in the book, and 719 in the Braun book. Every student will do the Study Guide questions every day to turn in the next day as homework at the beginning of class, before the class discussion. Vocabulary words will be defined each day and kept in the studentsÕ Antigone folder to study for the quiz on Friday.
STUDY
GUIDE QUESTIONS:
We will break into groups to do part of the questions before we go home
(20 min.)
VOCABULARY
FOR TODAY:
inexhaustible,
furrow, windward, proclamation, folly, curb (for a horse), traitor, sultry,
Mt. Olympus, distasteful, dazzle, Niobe.
Students
will read the second section of Antigone today, time permitting. (20 minutes)
Today
students will have 20 minutes of SSR time (Sustained Silent Reading). Students
may read their Antigone assignment or read their assigned novel during this
period.
#1
Students hand in their Study Guide first thing.
VOCABULARY
FOR TODAY: vengeance, vile, compulsive, passionate, transcend, embers, ancient,
deference, attentive, subordinate, dutiful, contempt, obedience, malicious,
anarchy (same word, different form), slacken, justice, proposes, trample,
perverse, raving. Students may already know some of these words.
HOMEWORK
FOR TODAY: Read page 682 through page 688. This is also page 45-52 of the
Braun book or to 925. The end of the reading has Haimon, Antigone_s betrothed,
angrily leaving an audience with his father Creon. He says, Go on raving
as long as you_ve a friend to endure you: or (the Braun translation,
Stay with your friends, if these are friends, and rave at them, if theyÕll
listen.
Students
will complete the Study Guide and study the vocabulary words. Also, they will
bring in three questions for the class to answer tomorrow. Three of the class
questions will be selected to include on the Antigone Quiz, which will be
tomorrow.
STUDY
GUIDE QUESTIONS:
We
will read today using the popcorn method (students may pass the reading
to the next person). Each person can read one character_s (an apostrophe goes
here!) dialogue for a half a page, then the next person will take over.
(30 minutes)
Groups
will meet today to pick objects and pictures to use for a Word
Scavenger Hunt. Each group will be selecting words from the Word Study
Lists for Antigone to use for this project. Students may bring in slide shows,
books, collages, picture books, newspapers or comics to illustrate the vocabulary
words they choose. Students may work for 20 minutes on this project today.
(20
minutes)
Groups
will receive points for this activity, which will take place next Thursday.
They will choose the objects they will make or bring for the Scavenger Hunt.
The more words each group does, the more points they will get. Points: each
group receives:
for
each word. If a drawing is used, it must be an original drawing that takes
some time to make. Teams must keep absolute secrecy about their words because
otherwise other groups might copy them.
Also,
groups will select which word that they would like to photograph for the Bulletin
Board. Groups will act out the word in the photograph. (Example: for the word
ÒmurmurÓ, a group might wish to pantomime whispering). Mrs. Sheppard will
be photographing each groupÕs word on Friday.
(30
minutes)
Students
will write for 5 minutes in their class journals:
(5
minutes)
2.
We will discuss the Study Guide questions and take other questions from the
class to answer, picking three of these to include on the quiz today as written
answers. Each student will write three questions they want answered from Antigone,
and the class will answer the questions. We will select three of these to
include on the quiz.
(20
minutes)
We
will have a short quiz on important concepts, ideas and some vocabulary from
this weekÕs study of Antigone. We will also have a short answer section.
(15
minutes)
Today
we will hand out choices for the Personal Assignment for Antigone and the
Group Assignment.
HOMEWORK
FOR TODAY: We will read pages 688 through 694 in the textbook, pages 52-64.
Creon has a change of heart and hurries out of the palace with axes and servants.
Students will continue reading the assignment and complete the Study Guide
questions over the weekend. Students will decorate their Antigone Folder by
next Wednesday, when they will be graded by the class using a Grading Rubric.
Students will complete a Journal entry today (see below).
(30
minutes)
Groups
may work to answer study guide questions if the reading has been completed.
Otherwise, these questions will be homework questions.
(20
minutes)
Study
Guide Questions:
Antigone
journal homework entry: What do you think will happen next in the story? Why
do you think that?
(5
minutes)
Today
each group will illustrate their chosen word for the bulletin board.
(15
minutes)
While
one group is doing their word, other groups will be getting information ready
for the Group Webquest.
Students
will have 15 minutes of SSR (Sustained silent reading) today. They may read
the Antigone assignment or their assigned novel.
(15
minutes)
Journal
entry for class:
(5
minutes)
We
complete the reading of Antigone today. This is pages 694-698 in the Class
textbook. We will read this section in class today, using the popcorn
method.
(30-45
minutes)
We
will then break into groups to complete the Study Guide in class today.
(20
minutes)
Study
Guide questions:
Journal
entry for today:
Vocabulary
words for today:
Maenad,
Mount Parnassos, Pluto, Athena, victorious, cavern, vault, lamentation, dirge,
civic, submission, rash (adj)
Groups
will share their answers with each other and discuss any differences.
(15
minutes)
Reminder:
the Antigone decorated notebooks/folders are due on Wednesday, Feb. 1st.
(in two days).
Each
group can select from the following list of projects they will do for next
week. Individuals may also select a project to do by themselves, in addition
to the group project.
Dramatic
Project:
Groups
will select which scene or section from a scene they will act out in two weeks.
(by Friday, February 10th). Each person in the group will be either a character
or represent the chorus or choragus. (chorus leader). Each person may play
more than one character. Groups may update the scene to be either in modern
times OR may paraphrase the dialogue to be more easily understood for the
class. The presentations of the scenes will be approx. 10 minutes or less.
Groups may present in costume or not in costume. All presentations will be
graded by the class using a Presentation Rubric. Groups may choose to use
music, dancing, props, scenery, musical instruments or other devices to make
their presentation more interesting. Each presentation will be due next Friday,
February 3rd. We will have time in class to rehearse these presentations.
Cooking Project:
Groups
will bring in authentic recipes from the Ancient Greek time period of the
play, Antigone. Each recipe will be researched in the library and include
copies for everyone in the class to have for their Antigone notebook. Every
recipe will be OK_d (another apostrophe goes here) by Mrs. Sheppard before
it is made, and tasted by her before the class tastes it. The group will make
sure no person in the class is allergic to any ingredients in the recipes.
All ingredients will be listed on the recipe card(s) or flyer(s) given to
the class. They will be responsible for:
Dance and Costume Project:
The
group will demonstrate a dance from ancient Greece or show pictures of dances
and/or costumes from the period. They may do this in a PowerPoint presentation,
or use collages or a Presentation Board. Some songs may be ancient ones. The
group may choose to share modern Greek songs that may be from the ancient
period. What dances were popular during the time of Ancient Greece? What role
did music play in the lives of ordinary people? Of royalty?
Ancient and Modern Greek Music:
The
group will investigate music, musical instruments, and songs of Ancient and
Modern Greece. What kinds of instruments did they have during this period?
Was music an important part of the culture of ancient Greece? The group will
investigate music and present their findings to the class. They will research
in the library using books and/or the internet to research their project.
Modern Music: What kind of music do Greek people listen to today? Are there
people who like the same kind of music that people in the United States like?
Do you think that Ancient Music lives on in some modern music? This group
can bring music in to share that is either from Greece or is influenced by
ancient or modern Greece.
Ancient Greek History:
The
group will investigate Ancient Greece. What was life like in ancient Greece?
What were city-states? What wars or conflicts happened during this period?
What clothing did people wear? What jobs did they have? The group will explore
this important period and touch on the Arts, Entertainment, Jobs, Daily Life,
and Architecture to share with the class. This group may choose to make a
model of the city, a house, posters, a PowerPoint presentation, or show illustrations
from interesting books on Ancient Greece. What was fascinating about ancient
Greece? What things can you discover to share with the class?
The
Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece Ð Who were they? Did the ancient Greeks
all believe in them? Who did not believe in them? What is the definition of
Pantheon? This group will research the ancient Greek gods and goddesses
and tell some myth stories about them. These stories can be very fascinating.
The gods and goddesses of ancient Greece had some very human-like qualities,
such as jealousy, hatred, love, and humor. This group will help the class
learn about the time of Ancient Greece by showing the relationships between
the people and their gods. Who really was in charge on Mount Olympus? What
lessons can the myths and legends of ancient Greece have for us today? This
group may choose to act the roles of the gods and goddesses in a modern-day
play. They might like to make a PowerPoint presentation or do a movie.
Who
was Sophocles? When did he live? What was his life like? A curious class wants
to know! This group will research Sophocles and other important playwrights
of ancient Greece. This group may choose to make a PowerPoint presentation
or to build a website about Sophocles. They may want to share a poster or
pictures of him. Was Sophocles the best playwright in Ancient Greece? What
other plays did he write? Who were some of the other famous playwrights in
ancient Greece? What was it like to go to a play during this time? This group
will do an in-depth look at what made Sophocles great and what makes the plays
of ancient Greece great even today.
The
Elements of a Tragedy
What makes a true tragedy? This group will explain all about tragedy Ð explaining the word catharsis and explaining what a tragedy consists of. They will also give some examples of other plays or movies that can be called tragedies. What is a tragic flaw or hamartis? Why do you think that a tragedy can be useful to read or watch as a play? What are some of the most famous tragedies in history? What makes them great? Do we need to identify with the characters in a tragedy in order to really understand the play? Do you think that seeing a tragedy in person could make it more powerful? Do you think there are tragedies going on the world today? What are they?
Personal Choice or Group Choice Assignment
You personally or your group may choose to do your own project, which will be an aspect of ancient Greece or Greek History. Run your idea by Mrs. Sheppard for an OK. This is a chance to explore an aspect of ancient Greek life that you would like to learn about and will be able to teach your classmates about. You will want to be creative and imaginative in doing an interesting custom project. What is your interest? Sports? Pets? Medicine? Books? Famous people of the day? Architecture? Family relationships? There are many subjects to choose from for this assignment if you or your group choose to do a custom Choice project.
Groups and individuals have two weeks to complete this project. Time will be given in class also. Group members may work outside of class if needed. Projects are due on Friday, Feb. 10th.
Groups will sign up today for which project they want. Ask Mrs. Sheppard for the signup sheet.
(15 minutes)
Group
members may bring craft supplies in to class to work on posters. Groups doing
a PowerPoint presentation may use a library computer to do their presentation.
Be sure to let Mrs. Sheppard know if you need to do this IN ADVANCE, because
it takes awhile to get a computer reserved. One group at a time may use the
class computer for a PowerPoint presentation. Groups may also do a PowerPoint
outside of class. If a group does not have any supplies, get with Mrs. Sheppard.
She has some small poster paper and some markers and pencils for students
to use.
Journal entry for today:
1. What I have done today in class
2. What I have learned today in class
We will have 10 minutes of SSR (Sustained Silent Reading) today to complete reading of the textbook and/or the assigned novel today.
Day
Six of Antigone Unit: Game Day
The
decorated notebooks are due tomorrow. Students who do not have a notebook
by today may get one from Mrs. Sheppard if she has any extras. (She will check
with the office to see if any extras are in the school). Decoration materials
will be available today in class for people who have not completed this assignment.
Understanding
Antigone and other Literature better
Today
we will learn about the Freytag pyramid and how to better understand a story
or play.
PowerPoint Presentation on Plot Structure
(15
minutes: we will explain and take questions)
Plot diagram interactive lesson. This can be done with a group, if there is time.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=904
(We
will spend 15 minutes in the computer lab for this if there is time) Students
can do this at home if they want to, to understand Plot Diagrams better.
Where
would the elements of Antigone go on the Freytag Pyramid? The class will help
put the story into its elements.
Students
will take notes on Plot Structure to be turned in at the end of class.
Collect
notes
(2
minutes)
We
play some Greek games on the ActivBoard. Each group selects somebody to represent
their group.
We
score each group and learn about Greek gods and goddesses.
Flash
Tour of Greek Gods and Goddesses
Learn
with games from Australia
(20
minutes)
We
will now play a Vocabulary game with two teams, divided up with 3 groups on
each side. The words will be the words we have studied in class. The winning
teams will get 5 extra credit points each. Each team will have a flyswatter
and hit the correct word on the sheet before the other team. Teams may help
each other but may not talk aloud. Team members may whisper the answer to
the person who holds the fly swatter. Team members switch being the person
with the flyswatter for every word.
(20
minutes)
Decoration
of Folders and SSR for other people
(30
minutes) Students may work on their individual project(s) during this time
either in class or in the library with a filled-out Library Slip.
Quiz
study sheet given out today for FridayÕs quiz on the last part of Antigone,
vocabulary, the Freytag Pyramid.
(20
minutes)
Students
will hand in their rubrics to Mrs. Sheppard putting their name and block number
on each one, along with the name of the student they are judging.
We
will work in groups at the library today, either on the computer or researching
using book resources at the library and working at the library tables.
(One
hour)
The
final presentations for the Antigone Project are due starting next Friday.
Journal
entry for today (5 minutes) Ð back in room or in library:
HOMEWORK:
Students should have divided up the work for Friday today at the library.
Students will do their group work as homework this week, as well as their
work on their Extra Credit Individual Ancient Greece project.
SSR:
If there is extra time today, students will read their novel in SSR (Sustained
Silent Reading) time.
Day Eight of Antigone Unit
We learn about writing our own Creative Myth story. We will be using a rubric
from Mrs. Townsend about this.
Students will present their Word Scavenger Hunt words today. Each group will show what they got done and explain each word. This will be a graded activity.
(45
minutes)
Question:
What is a Creative Myth?
We
start writing our Creative Myth.
We
meet in groups for the second half of class to continue working on the group
project. Group members may bring craft supplies in to class to work on posters.
Groups doing a PowerPoint presentation may use a library computer to do their
presentation. Be sure to let Mrs. Sheppard know if you need to do this IN
ADVANCE, because it takes awhile to get a computer reserved. One group at
a time may use the class computer for a PowerPoint presentation. Groups may
also do a PowerPoint outside of class. We will have another group time for
this project next Monday. Groups may meet outside of class or communicate
via phone, etc.
Day
Nine of Antigone Unit
Mrs. Sheppard is at WKU today.
Quiz
on the last part of Antigone, more vocabulary words, and the Freytag Pyramid.
(20
minutes)
The
Creative Myth Ð more writing the Creative Myth by Mrs. Townsend.
(15
minutes Ð 30 minutes)
Examples
of Creative Myths written by students
Examples
of modern day myths
What
is an Urban Legend? Ð examples Ð website?
Mythology
of different cultures
Do
people in the United States share the same myth stories?
Native
American myths
Grammar
Lesson Ð Starting the Personal Growth Plan Ð go over rubric
Groups
work on project for last part of the period in groups.
(30
minutes)
Journal
writing: What did I do today in class?
What
did I learn today in class?
SSR
Ð Sustained silent Reading. Students should have their first novel completed,
and first Book Report done. Start of second novel.
HOMEWORK:
Your assigned work on the group project.
Monday,
Feb. 6th
Further
work on Group and Individual Projects. We go to library during class for half
the class if we can to work on Group or Individual Projects.
Creative
Myth project
SSR
We
watch part One of Antigone movie.
Start
of Unit Three
Tuesday,
Feb. 7th - Day Eleven of Antigone Unit
We
watch part Two of Antigone movie.
Further
work on group projects.
Discovering
the Creative Myth
SSR
- bring your novel
Unit
Three
Wednesday,
Feb. 8th - Day Twelve of Antigone Unit
We
watch part three of Antigone movie.
Further
work on group projects.
Creative
Myth
Unit
3
Thursday,
Feb. 9th
We
finish Antigone movie.
Final
work on group and individual projects. Some
students may research in the library. Library passes needed.
Writing
The Creative Myth - Mrs. Townsend
Unit
3
Friday,
Feb. 10th: Day Fourteen of Antigone Unit
Presentations
about Ancient Greece and other topics relating to Antigone.
Group
and individual projects are shown in class.
The
class grades with rubrics
We
have end-of-unit Celebration
Students
bring drinks, food from time of ancient Greece for extra credit.
Possible
Greek games on the Activboard
Unit
#4: plus HOMEWORK from Unit 4.
Culminating
Comments Ð each students writes what they liked about the Unit on Antigone,
and what they would like to change for next time. These comments go to Mrs.
Sheppard so she can improve the Unit and see what everyone liked best.
What did I do in class today?
What
did I learn in class today?
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