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1. NO CLASS || **__ Assignment: __** 1. Rest up and get ready for a great semester! || 1. Review first semester || **__ Assignment: __** 1. Read handout on “Greek Drama” and “Sophocles” from //The Bedford Introduction to Drama// 2. Do worksheet. 3. BRING //OEDIPUS// TO CLASS ON WEDNESDAY! || 1. Review first semester 2. Review: Greek drama (scene, ode, parados, chorus, strophe, antistrophe) and tragedy || **__ Assignment: __** 1. Read //Oedipus Rex//, p. 3-26 (up to scene 2) 2. Annotate your book: sight and blindness, moral consequence, fate, Oedipus’s character. || 1. Check-in: Are we getting it? 2. //Oedipus// discussion || **__ Assignment: __** D-Night || 1. Tragic flaws, hamartia, hubris, dramatic irony 2. Video: Guthrie production || **__ Assignment: __** 1. Read //Oedipus Rex//, p. 27-59 (up to scene 4) 2. **Journal #1** – Prepare a quality discussion question (based on your annotations) from the reading, and respond to it. ||  1. Freytag’s plot model; peripeteia 2. //Oedipus// discussion through Ode 3 3. Video: Guthrie production || **__ Assignment: __** 1. Read //Oedipus Rex//, p. 59-81. 2. **Journal #2** – Does Oedipus have a tragic flaw? If so, what is it? If not, what brings him down? Use examples and page numbers. || 1. Wrap up //Oedipus// 2. Video: Guthrie || **__ Assignment: __** 1. Study for test || 1. //Oedipus// //Rex// test || **__ Assignment: __** 1. **Journal #3** – Discuss a few things you know about Shakespeare, what makes his plays worth reading, and what you want to get from reading //Macbeth//. || 1. Intro to //Macbeth//. 2. Video clip: //The Empire Strikes Back// Getting used to Shakespearean language: Syntax (w/ handout) || **__ Assignment: __** D-Night || 1. D-Day || **__ Assignment: __** 1. Read “Reading Shakespeare’s Language” (//Macbeth,// xv – xxiv) 2. Do //Macbeth// Syntax Worksheet ||
 * = Assignment Sheet –English 9 =
 * Journeys in Literature 2008-2009 ** ||  Findlay/Severson/Wensman  ||
 * WEEK ONE ||
 * Cultures are defined and reflected by the stories they tell. ||
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 * = Assignment Sheet –English 9 =
 * Journeys in Literature 2008-2009 ** || Findlay/Severson/Wensman  ||
 * WEEK TWO ||
 * Cultures are defined and reflected by the stories they tell. ||
 * **__ Monday, Jan. 12 __**
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