H10+A+-+February+29+-+March+4

=Monday, February 29= = = =Tuesday, March 1= = = =Wednesday, March 2= = = =Thursday, March 3= =Friday, March 4= >> =Note that third trimester student schedules are not permanent until Friday, March 25 . Please have your student continue to check his or her schedule via StudentVue for his or her most current schedule. Students' schedules may change before the third trimester begins, without advance notice, due to balancing. =
 * warm-up:
 * ===Requirements of a classic Greek tragedy===
 * ===add to your notes!===
 * ===you need to know these! (Helpful hint from the person who will write your final)===
 * ===A Greek tragedy requires===
 * ===1. a hero who is an important person (king, warrior, etc.)===
 * ===2. who has a tragic flaw (often hubris), or who is fated to suffer===
 * ===3. who suffers a catastrophe===
 * 4. then experiences a reversal
 * when he figures out the catastrophe was all his fault
 * and he tries to undo what he has done
 * but it's TOO LATE!
 * ===5. The audience experiences an emotional catharsis in which they===
 * ===feel pity for the hero (suffering in spite of being a great person)===
 * ===and awe and terror at the power of the gods===
 * [|Oxford comma]
 * [|the "singular they"]
 * Antigone chart for odes and episodes
 * Read play!
 * ===bring ID card to check out Sula tomorrow===
 * ===hand back papers!===
 * warm-up:add to Antigone chart
 * ===No little piece of paper!===
 * ===Add to notes:===
 * ===chorus – a group of 8 to 40 men (originally priests who told the stories of the gods in unison) who comment on the action of the tragedy===
 * ===skene – building at the back of the stage to hold costumes. Big doors to look like a palace.===
 * ===orchestra – the “dancing ground” space in front of the stage where the chorus chanted.===
 * ===dramatic irony – when the audience knows something a character doesn’t know===
 * ===read play===
 * ===paraphrase homework===
 * ===paraphrase homework===
 * check out Sula
 * Sula reading schedule
 * ===warm-up:===
 * ===Add to notes===
 * ===vicarious – second hand, in the sense of an experience that we see someone else have but don’t have ourselves (book, play, movie).===
 * Thespis – c. 534 BCE. He was the first man to stand apart from the chorus to speak the words of a god. The first actor.
 * thespian – actor
 * ===Aeschylus – Greek playwright who added a second actor.===
 * ===Sophocles – (495 – 406 BCE) playwright who added a third actor and a little bit of scenery. Wrote the Oedipus trilogy, and Philoctetes.===
 * finish reading play
 * So, who fits the requirements of a tragedy?
 * Draw the cave scene, p. 246
 * turn in the paraphrase assignment
 * tomorrow:
 * paraphrase quiz from Antigone
 * open note
 * open book
 * closed neighbor
 * ===Antigone quiz===
 * ===open book===
 * ===open note===
 * ===closed neighbor===
 * [|Oedipus with vegetables video]
 * =**From the parent newsletter:** =
 * =**THIRD TRIMESTER: SCHEDULES IN FLUX UNTIL 3/25** =
 * =Yes, yes, yes! It happened!=
 * =[|Mitt Romney referenced the "City on a Hill" speech!] =
 * =tidying up=
 * =what about those articles?=
 * =grammar notes=
 * =subject-verb agreement=
 * =[|Toni Morrison]=
 * =Sula=
 * =what's going on=
 * =patterns in literature?=
 * =Newspaper assignment=