Greek Theater Test & Essay

Thursday's test will include the following information:

• Greek theater (from the PowerPoint)
• Oedipus and Antigone
• Plot
• Character (quote identification and character traits)
• Theme (fate controls our lives, pride is a destructive force)
• Tragic Hero (5 traits, Oedipus, Antigone, and/or Creon)
• Literary Elements
• figurative language
• irony
• allusions
• foil/parallel

•  Vocabulary words from Antigone
• Definitions from Scene 5: 
• Defile: tarnish, make dirty
• Welter: jumble, confusion, muddle
• Glut: surplus, excess
• Doddering: foolish
• Recoils: withdraw, retreat

Friday's Essay:

• Essay reminders
• Prompt # 2
• Must use the civil disobedience texts and Antigone to support your claims
• Will have 50 minutes to complete the essay

1/30 Civil Disobedience Text #3

Plato's Crito

1/29 materials

Tragic Hero Sheet (due 1/31)
Fishbowl Questions

Mythological Allusions

Mythology
Allusion Questions

Civil Disobedience Texts 1 & 2

 Ghandi's speech
Occupy Movement article

Greek Burial Rites

Here is the handout for Greek burial rites.

Antigone Full Text

Here is the PDF file for the Antigone play.
Here is the Antigone calendar.
Here is the Antigone study guide

In-class essay 1/18

Essay Prompt #1 for Antigone TCAP. Please spend no more than 60 minutes writing this essay. It is due when you return to class on Tuesday.

Essay Tips

Essay Observations from Night

Oedipus modernization

Rubric

Oedipus Full Text

Oedipus Text

Irony

Situational Irony
Verbal Irony
Dramatic Irony

Greek Theater PowerPoint

PowerPoint
Notes Handout
Oedipus Calendar