Antigone
Unit Overview
HE9  Hamilton  2016
1.18
1.19
Picture Day
1.20
Due: All Oedipus notes.
Antigone set-up
HW: Read and notes
Antigone lines 1-525
1.25
1.26
TBD
HW: Read and notes
Antigone lines 930-end by
Tuesday.
1.22
Antigone
1-525
SPEECHES
5 minutes only
HW:

Group Speech
Thursday.

Read and notes
Antigone lines 526-929
by Friday.
FINALLY 
1.27
Antigone
930-end
HW:
1.21
Working towards the
Oedipus &/or Antigone
paper
HW:
HW: Read and notes
Antigone lines 526-929 by
Friday.
1.28
Antigone
526-929
HW: Read and notes
Antigone lines 930-end by
Tuesday.
1.29
Working towards the
Oedipus &/or Antigone
Paper
Conference Sign-Up
LAB 40
Work time on paper
HW: Monday….

your paper is due for
conference.

Test: Oedipus &
Antigone
2.1
Due: Oedipus &/or Antigone
paper.
TEST
Oedipus & Antigone
Conference Week Monday 2/1 – Friday 2/5
Antigone Unit Expectations:
 Keep notes. I will not collect these for a grade. Instead, for this unit, we will have small quizzes on the reading.
Antigone Unit Assessment:
We will be studying TWO of Sophocles’ plays in succession: Oedipus the King & Antigone. After we have studied BOTH tests,
expect the following:
1. TEST –
 Character identification, short passage response, thematic development, key vocabulary.
 You will need to know the eight characteristics of a TRAGEDY.
2. ESSAY – You will be writing a multi-page ARGUMENT essay.
 You will choose an inquiry question from a list that we generate in-class (Wednesday 1.27)
Ex. Which is more powerful: ignorance or knowledge? Is Antigone a hero? Can rebellion be just
leadership? Can a leader work in his or her own best interest and be a just hero?
 You will define the key term(s) in your essay.
 Based on the definition of your key terms, you will argue a point.
 You will examine the validity of many different points of view in your argument.
 You will include a counter-point & examine its validity.
Vocabulary:
Updated Oedipus
Peripeteia, Hamartia, Anagnorisis, Catharsis, Hubris
Antigone
Polis, Philos, Oikos, Eros
Antigone
Characters to know & watch
o Creon
o Antigone
o Ismene
o Eteocles
o Polyneices
o Haemon
o Teiresias
Notes hints
1-525
 How does Creon define justice? Why? What is his context?

How does Antigone define justice? Why? What is her context?

How do the sister’s Antigone & Ismene view one another? What contexts influence these perceptions?
“You have a warm heart for such chilly deeds”
526-929
 Haemon is a powerful rhetorician. How does the way he speak (the words he says and the order he says them in)
respond to the context or situation he is in and still help him to achieve his purpose? If you need help thinking about
this question, consider how Haemon uses ethos (credibility), logos (logic), and pathos (appeal to emotion) in his
speech?
CREON: My enemy is still my enemy, even in death.
ANTIGONE: My nature is to join in love, not hate.
930-end
 What truths does Tiresias bring this time? And for whom?
“All men
Can make mistakes; but, once mistaken,
A man is no longer stupid nor accursed
Who, having fallen on ill, tries to cure that ill,
Not taking a fine undeviating stand.
It is obstinacy that convicts of folly.”