Planning Your Week:
M 8/15—Make sure you have your composition notebook in class today.
T 8/16—Have two Membean words ready to share in class.
W 8/17—Writer’s workshop; have Oedipus part 2 read by today.
Th-F 8/18 & 8/19—Oedipus group performances
Monday, August 15
LG: Collaborate with peers to explore motifs/patterns of imagery in text and their relationship to themes. Practice close “reading,” gathering evidence, and making inferences. Consider thematic concepts from Oedipus.
- Set up interactive class notebooks.
- Review Part I of Oedipus: Excavate the text for patterns of imagery/motifs: plague/disease/pollution/infertility, fame/shame, blindness/sight, dark/light, ignorance/knowledge/enlightenment, the number 3/unity/closure/spiritual awareness, god-king/scapegoat.
- With your Archetype/Greek family, dig into the text for your group’s assigned motif.
- Place text evidence on your poster: be sure to incorporate lead-ins, MLA citations, and of course, commentary as to the importance of the imagery to the work as a whole.
- Also, include on your poster a claim (theme statement) about the author’s purpose for using this particular motif and how it reveals a truism about the human condition.
- Homework: Commit 2 Membean words to memory: for each word, know its proper spelling, its part of speech, nuances of use (connotations) etc. Be prepared to share your word “beans” in class tomorrow. Read part 2 of Oedipus by Wednesday.
Tuesday, August 16
LG: Practice close “reading,” gathering evidence, and making inferences. Consider thematic concepts from Oedipus.
- Share Membean words for review; Begin building class word wall of sunshine words.
- PSAT grammar concept (verbal phrases: gerunds, participial phrases, infinitives)
3. Complete motif posters
4. Group planning time for Oedipus performances
- Homework: Read Part II of Oedipus
Wednesday, August 17
LG: Practice close reading, gathering evidence, and making inferences. Consider thematic concepts from Oedipus.
- Answers to yesterday's verbal activity
- Participate in choral reading of Part II of Oedipus, analyzing the role of the strophe and antistrophe. Summarize key events and consider the following questions:
- Are there allusions present in the ode?
- Are there metaphors in the ode?
- What are they and what are they referring to?
- What is the point of view of the chorus?
- What other literary devices are present and what is their purpose?
images, etc.).
4. Collaborate with Greek groups to prepare Oedipus performances.
- Choose roles.
- Design costumes, masks, props, and background images.
- Cut lines for performance. Count the total number of lines within the Episode. Divide by 3. Cut that number of lines from the total scene. Be sure that all important lines are left intact. Be sure all action flows despite missing lines.
Thursday, August 18
LG: Apply skills for close reading, gathering evidence, and making inferences to passages.
- Trace Sophocles’ use of a specific motif through the play. Consider the great polarities both Oedipus and the Thebans experience. How does the use of repeated imagery deepen our understanding of the play as a whole? PSAT challenge: Write a potential theme statement incorporating a verbal phrase (underline and identify your verbal phrase). Submit your work.
Motifs/Recurring Imagery: plague/disease/pollution/infertility,
fame/shame, blindness/sight, dark/light, ignorance/knowledge/enlightenment, the
number 3/unity/closure/spiritual awareness, god-king/scapegoat (Complete for HW if not
finished in class) - Work time for group performances of Oedipus: Making props, masks, scenery, scripts, etc. for in-class performances.
- Complete peer evaluations and self-reflections of performances.
Friday, August 19
LG: Apply skills for close reading, gathering evidence, and making inferences to passages.
- Group performances of Oedipus.
- Complete peer evaluations and self-reflections of performances.