E9+-+February+27+-+March+2

=Monday, February 27=
 * poetry warm-up: Martian poetry
 * Pick an everyday scene you could see:
 * throwing a frisbee
 * combing hair
 * everyone walking to school
 * people going down a river in a canoe
 * birds feeding baby birds
 * Describe this as though you were from another planet and had never seen anything from Earth
 * How would you describe it?
 * What would you think you were seeing?
 * List poems
 * "Things to Do Around a Lookout" by Gary Snyder
 * Hand out "Good Stuff Cookies" and "99 things to do before you die"
 * Write a list poem:
 * Choose a category
 * write a list poem at least one page long
 * Work on poem writing assignment due Wednesday
 * Open book poetry test tomorrow!

=Tuesday, February 28=
 * Open book poetry test
 * start Oedipus story

=Wednesday, February 29= >> B.C. – Before Christ >> BCE – Before Common Era >> A.D. –Anno Domini (Year of Our Lord) >> C.E. – Common Era >> C. – Century >> c. – circa (about) >> Know your time numberline! >>
 * Decorated poem due - 20 pts.
 * 5 extra credit points if turned in today
 * 3 extra credit points if turned in tomorrow
 * Check out Oedipus
 * begin Greek Drama Notes
 * Greek Drama Vocab
 * Apollo – Greek god of reason, order, mathematics, music, and the sun
 * Dionysius – Greek god of chaos, revelry, wine. Drama festival tragedies were written in his honor.
 * fate – Greeks believed that everyone’s destiny was determined before birth. The Fates, three women who spun, measured, and cut off the thread of life.
 * hubris – excessive pride. This Greek concept implies stepping beyond what that person should be doing.
 * keep reading single page synopsis of Oedipus story
 * answer questions and make family trees

=Thursday, March 1=
 * Greek Drama Vocab
 * dramatic irony – when the audience knows something the actor doesn’t know.
 * chorus – a group of 8 to 40 men, originally priests, tell the stories of the gods and heroes. Later, they comment on the action in a play, taking the point of view the playwright wants the audience to have.
 * Thespis – the first actor. In c. 534 BCE Thespis stood apart from the rest of the chorus to speak the part of a god.
 * thespian – any actor
 * Sophocles – Greek playwright (495 – 406 BCE) who added a third actor and first used scenery. He wrote //Oedipus//.
 * finish single page story
 * start reading play

=Friday, March 2=
 * Greek Drama Vocab
 * orchestra, skene, ode, episode, vicarious
 * back side of Oedipus question sheet
 * make Oedipus' family tree
 * make your family tree
 * include as much as you can fit in