The words for the vocab quiz will be posted this afternoon when I get home. Sorry for the delay.

Some interesting thoughts in the blogs about poor Antigone in the past week:

  • Kelsey wonders how Antigone relates to modern feminism.
  • Chris examines the play in the context of modern depictions of violence.
  • Dpogreba wonders if the play might not be an Aristotelian tragedy.
  • Mgilbert ponders the destructiveness of technology in the context of the death of the two brothers.

AP students in period three, I might have given you 10 more pages than I intended to. You should read to page 263 for class tomorrow.

If you would like some resources for the Antigone essay, here is a place to start .

A few big picture thoughts about the first set of essays that I received on Sunday.

  • Really nice work for the most part in terms of proofing your work. I was happy not to be working on much grammar/usage.
  • Thanks for being on time with your essays. That helps a lot.
  • Novel/Play selection needs to be better. A few non-novels and non literary works crept in. Take the prompts seriously.
  • The essays need to do a better job of addressing the second half of the prompt. We'll talk this week about an easy strategy to do this.
  • Embeddding quotations are a consistent problem. Please see the online handout about doing it correctly.
  • The balance between including plot details and doing plot summary is something we will spend a lot of time on the next few weeks.

Overall, a really pleasant start–at least on the essays I have read thus far. You should all have your essays back on Tuesday, with a chance to revise.