1. Creating a Scene
Antigone

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. The Greek word for Actor.
What is hypokrites?
1000

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

22. “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

23. 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?

24. 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

25. 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…

26. 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

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

28. 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

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

30. Stress and Inflection
OH!

31. She kissed me after school.

32. Mark your script for Stress/Inflection
Practice pp
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

33. Antigone
Show us Your Edits!

34. Do Now