English 9B Syllabus October 13 – 20
English 9B Syllabus
Jane Belton
Tues., Wed., Th., Fri.
Syllabus: October 2009
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Tuesday 10/13
In Class: Antigone Short Stories due. Discuss Antigone: Finish discussing Haemon’s tactics; Creon’s anger; Antigone’s speeches. With whom does the Chorus side and why? With whom do you side? What do their references to other figures of myth have to do with Antigone?
Homework: Review and re-annotate pp. 111-117. Pay specific attention to Tiresias’s Speeches: What is Tiresias’s role? What are his views on Creon? On Antigone? On leadership and justice?
Wednesday 10/14
In Class: Discuss Antigone pp 111-117. The role of Tiresias; the chorus’s views on leadership and justice. Creon’s realizations.
Homework: Read and annotate Antigone pp. 118-128. Continue work on your vocabulary list (must be completed by Friday).
Thursday 10/15
In Class: Discuss Antigone pp 118-128
Homework: Review and re-annotate final pages of the play. You must show me your complete vocabulary list tomorrow at the beginning of class.
Friday 10/16
In Class: Vocabulary list due. Close reading of Chorus’ last lines and significance to the play as a whole.
Homework: Write a letter to one of the characters in the play. In your letter, respond to the character’s most intriguing actions and words. Incorporate quotes from the play (phrases the character says or about the character) into the body of your letter. DO NOT use long quotes, but instead weave short phrases from the play into your letter. Use the following as an example: Antigone, when you say that “no loved one mourns [your] death” why do you fail to acknowledge your sister, Ismene (line 969)? Is it because you feel she betrayed you? Remember that she did try to come to your defense. Ismene must feel a great deal of sadness at losing a sister now, having lost her entire family already. You say you have been “denied all joy of marriage…/deserted so by loved ones” (lines 1010-1011). But what about Haemon? Did he desert you? 1-2 pages, typed, double-spaced. Remember, when you quote from the text you must refer to the line numbers in parenthesis at the end of your sentence. Really use this letter to ask and consider questions that you are still grappling with about the characters and their actions.
REMEMBER: Your Reading Life Letter books must be entered into your Goodreads account by Tuesday.
Monday 10/19 – No Class
Tuesday 10/20
In Class: Share letters. Wrap up discussion of the play.
Homework: TBA