More Poetry...and Some Tragedy
MONDAY
Return Pygmalion and Get Oedipus Rex and Hamlet
Sonnets and Villanelles
-Presentation on structure, meter, rhyme scheme,etc.
HW Begin reading Oedipus Rex
TUESDAY
More fixed form
-practice marking up poems
-answer questions
HW Continue reading Oedipus Rex
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY
Standard Deviants Video clips - Aristotle and Tragedy
Excerpts from The Poetics
Applying The Poetics to Oedipus Rex
"Is it really a tragedy?"
-activity
Quickly review requirements for a Critical Annotation
HW Finish Oedipus Rex; Bring in Critical Annotation on a source with background on Shakespeare's life and times.
FRIDAY
Oedipus Rex Reading Quiz
Shakespeare Graphic Organizer for Life and Times notes:
-present and plug in information from your source
-brief background on life and times: religion, fairies and witches, Chain of Being, life and death
--Elizabethan Era/Shakespeare bio: historical events, monarchy, theater
HW Begin Reading Hamlet
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