DAY 43

AGENDA

1. Reflection: What is the significance of eyes in the play Oedipus? What is significant about eyes to you? Do you always see clearly?
2. Going to the library to work on your speeches.  Do some research, write your rough copy, conference about your ideas with a peer or the teacher.

DAY 42

AGENDA

1. Reading Oedipus: Iocaste's punishment - The Exodus
2. Co-creating criteria: what needs to be on our rubric for our speeches?

Check out the rubric and let me know if you think we should change, add or delete elements that are included on the rubric.

Check out these speeches to see if you can determine climactic order:

MLK "I have a Dream"
Obama: "Don't tell me Words Don't Matter"

DAY 41

AGENDA

1. Book clubs: this is your final club, so make sure you really discuss and develop some ideas with your group members.
2. Talking about rhetorical devices and climactic order

Check out this website for more rhetorical devices

DAY 40

AGENDA

1. Finishing Ode II of Oedipus: is Oedipus in over his head? What is Jocaste's role in all of this?
2. Speeches:  watch the following speeches and determine what makes it great, or what could use improvement.

"You are not Special" Commencement speech

Harvard Commencement - Oprah Winfrey

Terrorism in Canada - Prime Minister Harper

DAY 39

AGENDA

1. Talking about Oedipus: filling in the answers to the questions as we read through.
2. Speeches:  what are some main ideas that are required to make a good speech?

DAY 38

AGENDA

1. RIDDLES!

Question: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

Question: What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

Question: Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?

Question: A thief enters a shop and threatens the clerk, forcing him to open the safe. The clerk says, "The code for the safe is different every day, and if you hurt me you'll never get the code". But the thief manages to guess the code on his own.

How did he do it?

Question: Imagine you are swimming in the ocean and a bunch of hungry sharks surround you. How do you get out alive?

Question: A poor man is sitting in a pub. He sees that the man next to him is extremely rich.

Poor man: I have an amazing talent; I know almost every song that has ever existed.

The rich man laughs.

Poor man: I am willing to bet you all the money you have in your wallet that I can sing a popular song that includes a lady's name of your choosing.

The rich man laughs again.

Rich man: OK, how about my daughter's name, Joanna Armstrong-Miller?

The poor man goes home rich.

What song did he sing?

2.  Complete questions for Scene 1 of Oedipus

DAY 37: WHO AM I?

AGENDA

1. Today Ms. Bothelo is coming in to work with us!

Some of the ideas we plan to discuss:

Who am I?
Why is it important to think about who you are?
How does your identity affect your future?
What's in a name?

DAY 36

AGENDA

1. Book clubs!
2. What does a good speech need to be "good"? Working together to co-construct some criteria.

DAY 35

AGENDA

1. Humility Test: how humble are you?
2. Continue reading Ode 1: what do you think of Oedipus?

DAY 34

AGENDA

1. Read Ode 1 and answer the questions.

DAY 33

AGENDA

1. Continue reading Oedipus - what is the chorus cautioning Oedipus of?

DAY 32

AGENDA

1. complete the Greek Theatre presentation
2. Research: what are the elements of Aristotlian Tragedy?

Go to the following website: http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~ldernbach/msw/xhgkaristrag.pdf

Fill in the work sheet with your answers, so that you have a better understanding of tragedy as we read the play.

DAY 31

AGENDA

1. Book club meetings
2. Greek theatre presentations

DAY 30

AGENDA

1. Greek Culture Presentations!

PD DAY!

REMEMBER: keep reading your novels for your book clubs next week!

DAY 28

AGENDA

1. Completing our presentations for Tuesdays class.

** Make sure you have your hand out finished so you can send a copy to Miss McMillan so she can make copies for the whole class**

DAY 27

AGENDA

1.  Book club meetings!!
2. Working on peer editing and final touches/questions about our essays before they are due tomorrow!

DAY 26

AGENDA

1. working on a mini presentation about Greek theatre in the library.

Remember you need to include a hand out for your audience members during your presentation.

Also: don't forget to make it interesting with visuals to engage your audience!

DAY 25

AGENDA

1. Today we are choosing partners and working on a mini presentation about Greek theatre in the library.

REMEMBER: your book clubs meet this WEDNESDAY and your essays are due on THURSDAY.

Also: feel free to stop by and chat with me about your essays or your books if you have any questions or concerns before they are due!

DAY 24

AGENDA

1. Today is your LAST day to work on your essays in class.  If you have any questions be sure to come and meet with me today so you can continue to work on your essay over the weekend.

After today, you will not have time in class to work on your essay, but you can meet with me in periods 3 or 5 to discuss any issues next week!

DON'T FORGET: your essay is due October 9th!!

DAY 23

AGENDA

1. Today is your final day in class to work on your essay.

Take advantage of the time to: ask questions, write down your PPEs, work on structure and formatting.

DAY 22

AGENDA

1. Work period: developing proof to support your thesis.
2. Mini lesson: developing points
3. Mini lesson: developing structure