Term 1: Ancient Greek Tragedy and Participating & Contributing

Term 1: Ancient Greek Tragedy

and Participating & Contributing

Mrs O’MalleyShirley Boys’ High SchoolYear 10 Extension English

Profile Yourself!• Name and Year• My favourite subject(s) last year was...• The texts I studied last year in English

were...• My main strengths are...• My main weaknesses are...

• The best kinds of teaching/learning that works for me are...

• One thing Mrs O’Malley should know about me is...

• I do/do not have access to a computer at home

Introduction• Key Competency foci:

Participating and Contributing and Using Language, Symbols and Texts

• What do they mean?• How will we explore them?

• Our context: Ancient Greek TragedyOur text: Sophocles’ Oedipus the King

Participating and Contributing• This competency is about being actively

involved in communities. This class is a community of learning. This is a characteristic of the Shirley Man.

• We must contribute appropriately as a group member, make connections with and create opportunities for others in the group.

• How? Participate in and contribute to :1. in-class learning activities2. online class forum to discuss aspects of the

text

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Online Classroom – our Wiki!• https://sbhs-cso.wikispaces.com/

• Contribute to discussions here at least once a week

Using Language, Symbols and Text• We will learn specific language for

presenting information and interpreting the ancient text we are studying

• You must build a glossary of the unfamiliar words and define their meanings, in your own words.

Do this while you read the text. Update your glossary constantly.

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Greek Theatre: Knowledge Continuum

NOTHING EVERYTHING

Σοφοκλῆς Oedipus the KingSophocles was an

Athenian playwright who lived circa 496-406 BC. Only seven of his plays have survived complete.

Oedipus the King is part of the Theban trilogy. It deals with the philosophical debate between Free Will, Chance and the traditional ancient Gods.

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The Story so far…The city of Thebes was founded by Cadmus after a tip

from the oracle at Delphi. Oedipus grew up in Corinth and heard a terrible oracle

that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Seeking to avoid this outcome, he ran away from home.

When Oedipus arrived at Thebes the king had been recently killed and the citizens were terrorised by a deadly monster: the Sphinx. Oedipus solved her riddle and thus destroyed the Sphinx; as a reward he was made king of Thebes and married Jocasta, formerly the queen.

There followed 15 years of prosperity...

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LET’S GET READING!

Do Now – Grammar Good Times • Parse these sentences - identify their

parts of speech• HINT: Leave a line between sentences to

allow room

1. I was sleeping.

2. The herald runs fast.

3. Jocasta, she is feeling funny.

I was sleeping.Pronoun

- 1st p sing.

Main verb-

Continuous present

Aux. verb

Do Now – Grammar Good Times • Parse these sentences - identify their

parts of speech• HINT: Leave a line between sentences to

allow room

1. Oedipus was ignorant.

2. The killing occurred at a place where three

roads meet.

3. We love English.

Reading the text of Oedipus The King• 3 actors on stage at any one time• Chorus: 12 members, speaking

simultaneously or in turn

You need: A highlighter (or red pen at the least) to highlight words

within the text that you need to define A pen to make notes on the text – you can write all over

your copy! Your copy of the text Your most expressive reading voice

Homework• Research the parts and function of the

Ancient Greek theatre. Due Friday 18 February.

• Use class wikispace to share links and info on this homework task.

Peplos – the height of women’s fashion

Write a Letter• Write a letter (or an anachronistic email)

from the perspective of a minor character in the play: choose from the Priest, Creon, the Attendant, Messenger, Shepherd, or Teiresias.

• Describe what has happened to YOU in the action of the play and how you feel about it.

Fast Finisher?

Use a dictionary to work on your

self-built glossary. There will be a vocab test very soon!

Relating to Others:

how would you feel in their place?

Plot Test1. Name the king at the beginning of the play?2. Who was the king before him?3. Name the wife of the king?4. In what play is the town set?5. Many citizens arrive to see the king at the start of the play. Why?6. Who had the king sent to the oracle of Apollo?7. What news does he bring to the king when he returns?8. What is the king’s initial reaction to the news?9. Who is sent to give further information?10. What is this man’s physical problem?11. What does he tell the king?12. What does the king accuse him of?13. Next the king talks to Creon. What does the king accuse him of?14. Who arrives to restore peace?15. What does the queen tell the king about?

Plot Test Part 216. What is the king’s reaction to this? Why?17. What news does the messenger bring?18. Who does the king THINK that his father is?19. What does the messenger reveal about the relationship between

the king and his dead “father”?20. How does the queen react when she hears the story of her

husband’s early life?21. Why does the king THINK that she reacts like this?22. Another independent witness has been summoned. Who is it?23. What evidence does he give?24. How does the queen die?25. When the king next appears on stage, he is blind. How has this

happened?26. Who has become the new king?27. The blind man asks the new king for two things – what are they?28. Name the blind man’s two female children.29. What punishment befalls the blind man?30. Who wrote Oedipus the King?

• Select the 9 key points in the narrative

• Discuss these with a partner and confirm the top 9-10 key points

• Find a quotation from the text at each of your confirmed points (textual evidence)

• Draw a comic strip in your copy of the text

Finished? Draw Oedipus’ family treeinclude adopted family in a different colour