Directions: Re-read Oedipus at Colouns and answer the following comprehension questions based on your reading (note, if questions 11-16 are unrelated, then do not answer them.
Study Questions
1. What has Oedipus learned from his years of begging and wandering in exile?
2. Where do Oedipus and Antigone tread at the beginning of the play?
3. How does the Citizen react to the strangers in the sacred grove?
4. What prayer does Oedipus offer after the Citizen leaves?
5. How does the Chorus react at first to the news that someone has trespassed on the sacred grove?
6. How does the Chorus react when Oedipus, haggard and blind, reveals himself?
7. How does the Chorus react when Oedipus gives his name?
8. How does Oedipus shame the Chorus into accepting him?
9. What news does Ismene bring?
10. How does Oedipus react to Ismene’s news?Study Questions
11. What ceremony does the Leader of the Chorus explain to Oedipus?
12. How does Oedipus react when the Leader finishes explaining the ceremony?
13. What do Ismene and Antigone say after their father speaks to the Leader about the ceremony?
14. Why does the Chorus want Oedipus to recite the details of his life?
15. Why does Oedipus yield to the curiosity of the Chorus when the men press him for the details of his life?
16. Why does Theseus offer protection and the full rights of citizenship to Oedipus?
Monday, December 14, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
AP English Literature
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Homework: Read Oedipus up to the end of the second episode (And honor to Apollo) are last words. Answer study questions that follow. Study your notes on tragedy, and the function of the chorus/outline. Complete your independent reading journals and your literature circle role sheet. Remember-- extra credit Job assignments are due on Monday. Quiz on Thursday after Literature Circle Meetings. 1. What similarities do you notice between Oedipus and the character Job in terms of behavior or disposition thus far in your reading?
2. In the first Episode beginning with the words--You Pray! Then listen: and ending with the words "the whole of heaven help." Oedipus lays out a plan to stop the plague gripping Thebes. Summarize his statement/plan presented here.
3. Of what does Oedipus accuse the blind seer Tiresias? Why does Tiresias not speak?
4. Of what does Oedipus accuse his brother in law, Creon (Kreon)?
5. Of what does Oedipus intend to do? What does his wife, Jocaste (Iocaste) tell him?
6. The oracle had prophesied that Oedipus would kill his father and beget children by his mother. Is Oedipus therefore made to do these things? Is Oedipus bound or free--the puppet of fate, or the creator of his own fate? Of some of each?
7. When in the play was Oedipus a braggart? arrogant? insolent? presumptuous?
Homework: Read Oedipus up to the end of the second episode (And honor to Apollo) are last words. Answer study questions that follow. Study your notes on tragedy, and the function of the chorus/outline. Complete your independent reading journals and your literature circle role sheet. Remember-- extra credit Job assignments are due on Monday. Quiz on Thursday after Literature Circle Meetings. 1. What similarities do you notice between Oedipus and the character Job in terms of behavior or disposition thus far in your reading?
2. In the first Episode beginning with the words--You Pray! Then listen: and ending with the words "the whole of heaven help." Oedipus lays out a plan to stop the plague gripping Thebes. Summarize his statement/plan presented here.
3. Of what does Oedipus accuse the blind seer Tiresias? Why does Tiresias not speak?
4. Of what does Oedipus accuse his brother in law, Creon (Kreon)?
5. Of what does Oedipus intend to do? What does his wife, Jocaste (Iocaste) tell him?
6. The oracle had prophesied that Oedipus would kill his father and beget children by his mother. Is Oedipus therefore made to do these things? Is Oedipus bound or free--the puppet of fate, or the creator of his own fate? Of some of each?
7. When in the play was Oedipus a braggart? arrogant? insolent? presumptuous?
Monday, December 7, 2009
Blogging Over Break!
Social networking sites and blogging can revolutionize classroom teaching by providing students yet another vehicle for communication and thinking richly about the texts they read. This semester, I intend to make use of blogging as a way for students to yet again engage in literature circles (AP English Literature) and Non-fiction circles (AP English Language). Students will have the opportunity to post journal entries, pose and respond to questions, and engage in their independent reading texts with an online peer group. I will also ask them to explore other blogs and to follow those of their artistic and academic interests. Get ready for break (but not from reading and writing)!
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