Antigone on Trial: LIVE!

Hey Cast and Crew!
10th Honors and 9th Honors are on board to be our jury!  (You didn't tell me you read Oedipus Rex Sophomore year!  The 10th graders are just starting their unit on Oedipus Rex and ancient Greece, so your trial is going to be an AWESOME way for them to get deeper into the Big Thoughts behind all the Greek blood and gore.)

Also, Wednesday is Veterans' Day Chapel...so let's do this for the other classes on THURSDAY.
So, the plan:

*Directors, organize as necessary this weekend and Monday to make sure you're able to compile the overall script/plan/order of operations for Tuesday--thanks!  Let me know if you need anything. Feel free to use comments on this blog, or your own, or whatever, to communicate.

*If anyone needs another overview of ancient Greek court proceedings, this account of Socrates' trial is fairly efficient.

Monday:  MOR due (5 pages each person, one quote per page, questions for each other, make sure you deal with the ending) --Partners work together in class to complete a Reading Card for your MOR book.  Homework: all Antigone written work due Tuesday / Journal for Wednesday (Make it one I can read? tell me how you're doing at this quarter mark!)

Tuesday: Due: All Antigone written work
Dress Rehearsal!  We'll do this for real today--as best we can.
(If we slop over into Wednesday a bit, okay--then we can adjust to fit one class period for the performance version on Thursday)
Homework: Journal for Wednesday (one I can read--Dear Mrs. Disher...How's the year? How's class? How's you?)

Wednesday: (Journal due that I can read), finish any leftover trial, make adjustments and preparations for Thursday
Homework: Be ready for Thursday!!!

Thursday: Antigone on Trial: LIVE from the SCS Library!
Homework: Blog post reflecting on the "Trial" process and performance--what did you learn? How did having a jury change anything?  You know the drill: think, write, help your brains grow, etc.

Friday: Blog post due.
Do cool AP class stuff.
Homework: There will be some. (But I bet it'll be AWESOME...also you lucky dogs won't have school Monday, Tuesday, OR Wednesday. Tell your parents to come say hi to me at conferences! I'm going to get so bored telling them how fantastic you all are, over and over again. :-)

MOR for November, due Dec. 1

A list of all works that have been suggested ON the AP exam since 1971 can be found at this link (most frequently recommended works are also listed at the bottom).

For November, please read a Classical text (another Greek play such as Electra or Medea [see here for list], or the Aeneid, etc.)

(There will be no MOR required during December.)

Crime & Punishment Reading Card

Let's complete this first reading card as a class--future cards will be completed individually, because you'll remember your understanding of the books better if you put the notes in your own words.

1) Go to this Google Sheets document: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SW4ZCuUhg-pbjk32R_3KBjq-pIqTfJJUYLSlEWgymfA/edit?usp=sharing

2) Locate which topic you have been assigned. Thoughtfully and thoroughly add notes about that topic as it functions in Crime and Punishment.  If there is a useful C&P quote that illustrates your notes, you should include it, but quotations are not required.

3) Due before school Wednesday.

How to Keep your Credit!

#2-11 are the glitches I correct most often in student papers. If you want to not lose credit for these grammar and punctuation items, please make sure these things are perfect!
 

1.      Each sentence must begin with a capital letter and end with an appropriate punctuation mark (period, exclamation point, or question mark).

 

2.      Quotation-ending punctuation: 

With source in the parentheses ( ): According to Lewis, “Atheism turns out to be too simple” (39).

With source in the sentence: Jesus says, in John 3:16, that “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.”

3.      A full dash looks like this—not like this- or this – , ok?  Type two hyphens and no spaces, and--should automatically turn into—.

 

4.      This/that noun shows that… (Always add a noun. Do not make your readers work hard: tell us what you want us to notice about “this.”)

 

5.      Give context to lead into each quotation (do not waste a moment of your argument!)

 

6.      Use present tense (says) or present perfect (has said) except inside quotations.  (For some history-based essays, past tense is appropriate for historical discussion—Jesus’s miracles, World War II, garden of Eden, etc.—but sources are still quoted in the present tense thus: So-and-so says….)

 

7.      No contractions, please. Isn’tàis not. 

 

8.      Book Titles appear in italics.  “Article Titles” appear in quotation marks. Capitalize the Bible like I just did, but do not italicize it.

 

9.      No you/I/me, etc. (For some essays, “we” may be allowed if it is used carefully and accurately.  “We” will only work if you have clearly established that the speaker and the readers are part of the same population—if you mean your paper to be read by non-Christians, you may not refer to “we Christians.”)

10.  No singular/plural disagreement.  Wrong: “Someone lost their keys.”  Right: “Someone lost his keys.”

11.  Your Works Cited page must adhere to MLA guidelines perfectly, including correct information, formatting, alphabetization, etc. Do not trust Easybib blindly!