Thursday, January 13, 2011
Good morning, English 11!
1. Business Items
Please clear your desk except for a
pencil, your journal, study guide,
and your allusion notes.
2. Food for Thought (Journal)
Date your entry Thursday, January 13, 2011.
Copy the word, quotation, and prompt, then respond to the
prompt.
Word: excoriate (v.) denounce or berate
severely; to strip off or remove the skin
Quote: “Preachers denounce sin as if it
was available to everyone.” --Frank Dane
Prompt: What do you think people need to
be “saved” from? Explain your answer.
3. “Antigone” Readers
Reader Reminders
Character
Narrator (either gender)
Antigone (female)
Ismene (female)
Creon (male)
Haemon (male)
Eurydice (female)
Teiresias (male)
Sentry (either gender)
Messenger (either gender)
Choragus (male)
Chorus (all of us together!)
4. “Antigone”
“Antigone” study guide –
This will help you remember details!
Read Scene 2 and Ode 2 (pp. 950 –
958) and complete the study guide
questions.
Add the context to your allusion sheet
as we figure out WHY Sophocles
made the allusions in the story.
5. Scene 2 Group Discussion Questions
1. What happens to Antigone in Scene 2?
2. How did the sentry discover that Antigone had
buried Polyneices?
3. Why do you think Antigone did not deny her
crime?
4. How did the art on these pages add to your
understanding of the tragedy?
5. From lines 7-13 Note the change in attitude on
the part of the sentry. How might his statement
“a man should never be too sure of anything”
apply to Creon?
6. Scene 2 Group Discussion Questions
6. In Lines 25-35, what does the dust storm
possibly symbolize?
7. Reread lines 35-45. How does the sentry’s
speech create sympathy for Antigone?
8. In lines 45-50 what do the sentry’s actions and
comments reveal about his character?
9. In lines 85-90, do you agree that Ismene
should be arrested and punished, too?
10. In lines 99-104, what does Antigone assume
about the attitude of the chorus? Do you think
she is right?
7. Scene 2 Group Discussion Questions
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From lines 120-125 find a metaphor
and an example of personification.
What do you think of Antigone’s treatment
of her sister in lines 131-143?
In your opinion, why does Ismene now
want to accept equal blame in the crime
of burying Polyneices?
From lines 155-156, how does Creon feel
about the bond between Haemon and
Antigone?
Read lines 10-14. To whom do you think
these words apply: Creon or Antigone?
Explain why you think this.
8. Visual Review
Watch Act 1 & 2 of “Antigone”