Thursday, January 6, 2011 Good morning, English 11! 1. Business Items Please clear your desk except for a pencil and your notebook.

2. Three Truths and a Lie Let’s do a few of these!

3. “Antigone” Vocabulary Turn to a new notebook page and write “Antigone” Vocabulary on top. Make your sheet into 3 columns. The left column should be labeled “Word and Part of Speech” The middle column is the “Definition” The right column should be labeled “Association”

4. “Antigone” Vocabulary 1. auspicious –adj. - promising success; favorable 2.compulsive – adj. have an irresitible, irrational impulse to do something 3.defile- v. - to make foul, dirty, unclean, or impure 4.dirge – n. – a slow, mournful piece of music; a funeral hymn 5.edict- n. – an order put out by a person in authority

5. “Antigone” Vocabulary 6.lamentation - n.- an expression of grief 7.lithe – adj.- limber; physically flexible 8.perverse –adj. - willfully determined to go against what is expected or desired 9.sated - adj. -satisfied fully 10.transgress – v. - to violate or break a law, command or moral code

6. Allusions Like the novel Streetcars, Greek drama made allusions to people and events in historical and popular culture that the audience was expected to know. Since we are not living in those times and may not have extensively studied that time period, we need to work a little harder to understand those allusions. The handout I’m about to give you provides the page numbers where you will find these allusions and their definitions. Be sure to look at the footnotes or margins of the story because most of the definitions will be found there.

7. Antigone Allusions Handout Number off from Each person will find and copy his or her definition. After 5 minutes we will share definitions and write them down. Speak loudly, clearly, and slowly. We can fill in the context later.

8. “Antigone” Readers I need some volunteers to read parts, since this is a drama (play)! Character Narrator Antigone Ismene Creon Haemon Eurydice Teiresias Sentry Messenger Choragus Chorus

9. “Antigone” “Antigone” study guide – This will help you remember details! Read the Prologue & Scene 1