You need your 10
Steps book from
the cabinet
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Review: Correct or Incorrect? If incorrect, fix it.
1. Grammar is easy, if you know the rules.
2. When he told everyone he was vegetarian, his
teacher offered to make chicken.
3. After seeing Clueless she wanted to read Jane
Austen’s Emma.
4. Since Hunger Games has come out on video,
they’ve been wanting to watch it.
5. They put all of the furniture in front of the doors
and windows while the zombies got closer and
closer.
6. If Chris hopes to survive in his 8 a.m. English
class he needs to get to bed earlier.
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Words that surround a
word you don’t know
 Provide
ideas about what
the word might mean
1. Examples
2. Synonyms
3. Antonyms
4. General Sense of the
Sentence or Passage
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May suggest the meaning of the unknown
word
Example: The adverse effects of this drug,
including dizziness, nausea, and headaches,
have caused it to be withdrawn from the
market.
Adverse means:
a. artificial
b. energetic c. harmful
C. harmful
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The answer is
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What are the examples of the word adverse in
the previous sentence?
 Dizziness
 Nausea
 Headaches
 These
examples show us that
adverse means NEGATIVE.
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A word that means the same or almost the
same as the unknown word
Example: Fresh garlic may not enhance the
breath, but it certainly does improve
spaghetti sauce!
Enhance means:
a. destroyb. improve
c. excite
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The answer is
B. improve
What is the synonym of the word enhance in
the previous sentence?
 improve
 This
synonym shows us that
enhance means TO MAKE BETTER.
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A word that means the opposite of the
unfamiliar word
Often signaled by words like:
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however
but
Yet
on the other hand
in contrast
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Example: Trying to control everything your
teens do can impede their growth. To
advance their development, allow them to
make some decisions on their own.
Impede means:
a. block
b. predict
c. improve
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The answer is
A. block
What is the antonym of the word impede in
the previous sentence?
 advance
 This
synonym shows us that
impede means TO PREVENT.
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Drawing conclusions based on the paragraph
surrounding the word
Example: A former employee, irate over
having been fired, broke into the plant and
deliberately wrecked several machines.
Irate means:
a. relieved
b. very angry
c. undecided
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The answer is
B. very angry
What does the general sense of the passage tell
us about the word irate?
 That someone was upset over losing his job and did
irrational acts of violence out of anger
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This general sense of the passage
tells us that irate means EXTREME
ANGER.
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Use your notes to complete the practices on
pages 24-35. If you finish early, put your
book away and read or do work quietly.
You can listen to your iPod while you work
Sit quietly and work on other homework or
read. No sleeping!
Write the answers on your answer sheet
Save your answer sheet! You will use it for a
grade later.
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What did you learn about Sophocles?
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http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search
What is a Tragedy worksheet
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Make flash cards; quiz yourself
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Oedipus: Son of Jocasta and Lais. Sent away to
be raised by Polybus and Merope. Accidentally
fulfills his fate of killing his father (Lais)and
marrying his mother (ew)
Has four children: Antigone, Ismene,
Polyneices, and Eteocles. Not only are they his
children… but they are also his ______. (ew
again!)
 Movie Clip—I’m My Own Grandpa
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The oracle reveals that a plague is on Thebes
because they were harboring a pollutant, or
one who killed his own father
Upon finding out what had happened, Jocasta
kills herself and Oedipus stabs himself in the
eyes, blinding himself.
He then goes into exile and gives power to
his two sons to share.
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Polyneices and Eteocles agree to share rule
when they are old enough
Eteocles refuses to give up rule when it is his
turn to do so
Polyneices leads an assault on Thebes in
retaliation, and the two brothers murder each
other in the process
Uncle Creon (Jocasta’s brother) takes over as
king.
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Eteocles will be buried with honors because
he died defending his kingdom
Polyneices will be left to rot in the open so
that birds will eat his corpse and he will die a
dishonorable death because he attacked his
own kingdom
◦ This goes against the rules of the gods
◦ Antigone believes he should have a proper burial
and has to find a way to make it happen
And so it begins…
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As always: DO NOT LOSE THIS! You will fill
this out as we read Antigone
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Antigone: daughter of Oedipus
Ismene: daughter of Oedipus
Eurydice: wife of Creon
Creon: King of Thebes, uncle of Antigone
and Ismene
Haimon: son of Creon
Teiresias: a blind prophet
A Sentry
A Messenger
Chorus: elders of Thebes
Choragos: leader of the Chorus