Weekly Agenda 11.14-11.18

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

Shakespeare: Hamlet

MONDAY-TUESDAY

Get Books: Oedipus Cycle, Hamlet, Death of a Salesman

(Standard Deviants Video Clips: “Aristotle and Tragedy”)

Read excerpts from “The Poetics”

-apply to Oedipus Rex

-”Is it really a tragedy” activity

Reciprocal Reading
-predict, read -INDIVIDUAL

-summarize, question, clarify -GROUP

HW for WEDNESDAY, read Oedipus Rex, create 3-level questions.

WEDNESDAY

Review Oedipus Rex

THURSDAY-FRIDAY

BACKGROUND

Elizabethan England

-chain of being

-beliefs, superstitions

-language

Shakespeare Life and Times

-theater and performance

-biography

#8: Virginia Woolf's "Shakespeare's Sister"

HW Read Hamlet, ACT 1 for FRIDAY

SAVE for MONDAY

Hamlet, Act I

-characterization

--archetypes

--language

WATCH (Gibson, Branagh, Hawke)
HW for MONDAY: Read Hamlet, ACT 2, Scene 2 for MONDAY; Complete Journal #9 Worksheet Review Qs