Creating a Scene Antigone

Jeopardy! 200 400 600 800 1000 About the Author It’s a Tragedy Greek Theater Antigone & Her Family 200 400 600 800 1000

The author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone Who is Sophocles? 200

This is the number of Sophocles plays that exist today out of over 100 What is 7? 400

It was the “Golden Age” in Ancient Greece What was the time period when Sophocles wrote his plays? 600

These were things Sophocles invented What is Painted scenery and “Deus ex Machina”? 800

The character who warns other characters of their flaws—he is often ignored Who is Tieresias? 800

The names of the parts of the Choral Ode What are Strophe and Antistrophe? 800

What happened to Oedipus’s sons What is they killed one another in a civil war? 800

This was the number of actors Sophocles had in the cast of his plays. What was three? 1000

A Horrible truth that leads to release. What is catharsis? 1000

The Greek word for Actor. What is hypokrites? 1000

The decree of Creon that begins the action of the play What is “bury Eteocles, but not Polyneices”? 1000

This Civilization made tragedy into art Who were the Greeks? 200

This city was where the Oedipus plays are set What is Thebes? 200

What are the names of the Oedipus Plays? What is Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone? 200

The element that causes Oedipus’s downfall, ending with destruction or death What is hubris? 400

The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison What is Choral Odes? 400

The King and Queen of Thebes Who are Laius and Jocasta, then Oedipus and Jocasta, then Creon? 400

A single flaw in a character that brings them to tragedy What is hamartia? 600

Masks with built in megaphones and platform shoes What was the costumes worn by the ancient Greek actors? 600

“Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother” What was the prophesy that ended up ruining the lives of Laius, Jocasta and Oedipus? 600

Ode Lyric Poem expressing the feelings or thoughts of a speaker, often celebrating a person, an event, or a thing. What would a Greek chorus’s ode be about?

Choral Odes the first stanza of an ode essentially the first half of a debate or argument presented by the chorus. the chorus moves from the right of the stage to the left. The antistrophe is the other half of the argument initially presented in the strophe. the movement is left to right. Strophe Antistrophe

Chorus reading—stage directions Get used to the language--still Read Chorus 1, one word at a time Re-Read Chorus 1 & Chorus leader, a line at a time Re-read Chorus 1 all together, volunteer read Chorus Leader alone Walking and Talking Re-read Chorus 1, all together, walking right to left Read Chorus Leader 1 still Read Chorus 2 all together, walking left to right Volunteer Read Chorus Leader 2 still Read Chorus 3 all together, walking back…

Take Aways Movement means everything! Remember Stage Directions! How would you stage Lines 1-120? Down Stage Stage Right Stage Left Center Stage Up Stage

Do Now: Writer’s notebook Dynamic In the play Oedipus Rex, which character changed the most? Which stayed the same? Static

Practice Editing on lines 256-423 Editing Text Read the text in its entirety Write a “Somebody Wanted But So” statement Go through the dialogue and get rid of anything that doesn’t directly support that statement. Goodbye repetitive statements Goodbye flowery descriptions Goodbye unnecessary characters Page 262

Antigone Show us Your Edits! After you add in stage directions

Stress and Inflection OH!

She kissed me after school.

Mark your script for Stress/Inflection Practice pp. 270-276 To add stress---underline To add emotion—emojis To add a pause-- / To add guesture--- [ point here] Edit down the Long speeches Add in Staging Marks

Antigone Show us Your Edits!

Do Now