Friday,+April+8

Book Trailer of the Day
Antigone by Sophocles

If you have any type of electronic reader, please download this title. Although this version shows as $3.19 on Kindle, I have found it for free online, on IBooks, and on multiple free literary classic apps. I simply don't have enough paper copies for every student.You can also read it for free at the following link:

Antigone e-Text

For Discussion:
Lit Circle assignments and dates

Mini-Lesson: Background Knowledge Group Project

 * Groups will research their given topics and create an informative presentation for the class. Presentations should be engaging, information rich, and well practiced.
 * Groups must use visual aids in presentations. These may be in the form of PowerPoint presentations, videos, 3D models, etc.
 * Sources must be cited in the presentation (i.e. credits of video/ppt) AND in an MLA works cited page.
 * Turn in typed speaker notes, electronic copies or printouts of ppts/videos, and works cited page.

To be presented Thursday, April 14.

Work with your group researching your topic. Begin building your presentation.

Homework
Read lines 1-794 before Thursday, April 14. Here is the linked online text with your stopping point highlighted. Line 905 on the online text. Do STAARS and TEAR organizer for either Antigone's monologue and successive lines from lines 20-77 or Creon's monologue on lines 162-213. Link to online text. Passages for rhetorical analysis are highlighted.