February 7- 11

Monday:

In-Class Essay
HW: Poetry Response 3# due

Tuesday:

Poetry
HW: Private Poems

Wednesday:

Poetry

Thursday:

Poetry

Friday:

Independent Reading Project due

January 31- February 4

Monday:

Glogster Workday - Review the characteristics listed last week
HW: Poetry Response 2# (dramatic monologue)

Tuesday:

Poetry Unit - introduce
Private life exposed

HW: Agamemnon test
Read, annotate, and analyze Public Life poems (due Thursday)

Wednesday:

Agamemnon Test
HW: Public Life Poems and Annotations due

Thursday:

Public Life Poems
Time and Space poems - groups
HW: Glogs due

Friday:

In-Class Essay on Agamemnon

January 24 - 28

Thursday and Friday:

Finish Agamemnon in class.

1. Create a blogger account
2. Email me a link to your new account
3. Add photo or avatar
4. Go to AP English and become a follower
5. Make a post for practice.
6. Visit Glogster.
7. Create an account
8. Begin working on your Glog for Aeschylus's play. Check here for samples. (Remember, this activity is your culminating piece or project for the play - make them creative and fabulous.) Here are some items to include on your glog:

* music
* film clips
* quotes
* images
* connections (how the play relates to other mediums, media, or works)
* thoughts about Aeschylus's themes
* symbols, cluster images, etc.
* archetypal significance: character, situation, symbol
* tools of the trade (how the playwright gives his work, characters, and moments power)


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January 18- 21

Tuesday:

Poetry Responses for Semester Two - Links
Independent Reading Project - discuss
MC Practice - finish
Agamemnon, Episode 1, Stasimon 1


Wednesday:

Agamemnon, Episode 3, Stasimon 3
Poetry
HW: Read Episode 4, Stasimon 4

Thursday:

Agamemnon Discussion
Poetry
HW: Episode 5, Stasimon 5 due Monday

Friday:

MC practice
Passage Analysis, Practice and Review

HW: Episode 5, Stasimon 5

January 4 - 7

Welcome back seniors! We open our final semester with a deliberate study of the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus and his famous trilogy The Oresteia. Our entire semester falls under his influence, as we venture into Wharton and Faulkner's own indebtedness to Aeschylean tragedy.


Tuesday:

Introduction to Semester and Greek Tragedy




Wednesday:

As you have spent a semester with me already, you will undoubtedly understand why Ethan Hawke's portrayal of Hamlet is my favorite with all of its dark undertones and contemporary motifs. The video provides an excellent introduction to Aeschylus for it opens in darkness.

Distribute texts. Read the Prologue outloud.
The Legacy of the Trojan War and its aftermath.



Thursday:

Greek Drama Terminology
Assign terms - make video
Wordia

Thursday:

Video workday
Family Curses...fact or fiction