Weekly Agenda 11.16-11.20

LINK: 5 Week Agenda

November 16th-20th

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex MONDAY-TUESDAY (Standard Deviants Video Clips: “Aristotle and Tragedy”) Review “Oedipus Rex” through Scene II Excerpts from “The Poetics” -apply to Oedipus Rex -”Is it really a tragedy” activity Reciprocal Reading -predict, read -INDIVIDUAL -summarize, question, clarify -GROUP Review Critical Annotation Format LINK: Shakespeare Critical Annotation Shakespeare: Hamlet WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY-FRIDAY BACKGROUND Elizabethan England -chain of being -beliefs, superstitions -language Shakespeare Life and Times -theater and performance -biography Hamlet, Act I -characterization --archetypes --language WATCH (Gibson, Branagh, Hawke)

Critical Annotation due Thursday, November 19th Poetry Terms Quiz, Nov 23rd READING SCHEDULE Read Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” for TUESDAY, November 17th Read Hamlet Act 1 for for THURSDAY; Nov. 19th Act 2 for MONDAY; Nov. 23rd Act 3 for MONDAY, Nov 30th;  Act 4 for THURSDAY, Dec 3rd;  Act 5 for MONDAY, Dec 7th.     **JOURNAL DUE DECEMBER 4TH-DECEMBER 9TH (Don’t Forget 50 Vocabulary Words)