English 11 – Trimester 2

Week 2

Monday, December 9

To prepare for class: Get a Purple Literature book. Pick up a handout from the front

table.

Homework Read your book

and record your pages and minutes.

NameAntigone Journal12/9/13

Journal (December 9) Essential Questions for Antigone

Write for 5 minutes.

What are the qualities of a great leader?

What are the conditions when a person should disobey laws?

Consider Who are some great leaders you know of? They might be people in your life. What makes them great leaders?

Give examples of times in history when it was necessary for people to break laws.

Essential Questions for Antigone

What are the qualities of a great leader?

What are the conditions when a person should disobey laws?

Jot notes of what stays with you as we listen to the video clips. Jot down a phrase or two that you can share with the class.

Nelson Mandela/ Malala Yousafzai

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/education/2013/12/05/sn-1206.cnn&iref=videosearch&video_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2Fsearch%2F%3Fquery%3Drobin%2Bcurnow%2Bnelson%2Bmandela%26primaryType%3Dmixed%26sortBy%3Drelevance%26intl%3Dfalse#/video/education/2013/12/05/sn-1206.cnn

http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-october-8-2013/malala-yousafzai

Cast of Characters

936 – Literary Connection937 – Reading Connection980 – Literary Concepts

Reading Section: Contrast Ismene and Antigone

Ismene Antigone

Which adjectives (2 or 3) would you use to describe each sister?Write examples from the play to support your opinion.

Notes Section:Vocabulary from Antigone

Auspicious – of promising success

Compulsive – having the ability to compel or force resulting from an irresistible, irrational impulse

Defile – to make foul, dirty, unclean, or impure

Dirge – mournful piece of music; a funeral hymn

edict – an order put out by a person of authority

Lamentation – an expression of grief

lithe - limber; physically flexible

Perverse – willfully determined to go against what is expected or desired

Sated – satisfied fully

Transgress – to violate or break a law, command, or moral code

TRAGEDY

Tragic hero

Tragic fall

Twists of fate

Pity and fear

Disastrous ending