Antigone Bellringer #1
1/13/14
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 Directions: Use your Greek Theater notes to help you
answer these questions.
1. What is hubris and what does it lead to?
2. What is a catharsis?
Today’s Target: I can summarize and paraphrase
information important for analysis.
Antigone Bellringer #2
1/14/14
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 Directions: Use your notes on Oedipus and your
memory of the Oedipus video/story to answer the
following questions.
1. List four facts about Oedipus’ life.
2. Jocasta kills herself after she learns the truth about
Oedipus (her husband). Why do you think Oedipus
does not commit suicide?
Today’s Target: I can summarize and paraphrase
information important for analysis.
Antigone Bellringer #3
1/15/14
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Directions: Consider the following values:
Loyalty or obligation to family
Obedience to civil law
Observance of religious law
Protection of personal dignity
Freedom
Protection of community or nation
Which value would you say Antigone values most? Why?
Which value would you say Ismene values most? Why?
Today’s Target: I can summarize and paraphrase information important
for analysis.
Antigone Bellringer #4
1/16/14
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1. How would you describe Creon? What kind of ruler is
he?
2. How does the sentry feel about the news he has to tell
Creon? Why?
Today’s Target: I can read drama and analyze the
author’s use of literary conventions.
Antigone Bellringer #5
1/27/14
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1. What is the conflict between Creon and Antigone in
Scene 2 (pages 1036-1038)?
2. Why do you think Ismene now wants to say she was a
part of Polyneices’ burial (page 1038)?
3. What argument does Ismene make to Creon to not kill
Antigone (page 1039, line 154)?
Today’s Target: I can write insightful literary analysis
with specific textual evidence.
Antigone Bellringer #6
1/29/14
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1. What do you think it means to persuade someone
using logic?
2. What do you think it means to persuade someone
using emotions?
3. What does it mean if someone has credibility? (Use
your phone to look this up if you do not know.)
Today’s Target: I understand the effectiveness of
persuasive techniques.
Antigone Bellringer #7
1/31/14
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1. What is ethos?
2. What is logos?
3. What is pathos?
Today’s Target: I understand the effectiveness of
persuasive techniques.
Antigone Bellringer #8
2/4/14
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Directions: Decide if the follow
statements are examples of logos
or pathos.
1. Over 75,000 Japanese children have been without clean water for
3 days due to the earthquake and tsumani.
2. A photo of a child with a black eye and torn clothes is in an ad for
the Stop Child Abuse American campaign.
3. All the sophomores are skipping school to go to King’s Island.
You tell your parents that you will lose friends if you don’t attend
too.
4. Studies have shown that drivers who talk on their cell phone are
20% more likely to have an accident.
Today’s Target: I understand the effectiveness of persuasive
techniques.
Antigone Bellringer #9
2/12/14
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1. What did Creon decide to do at the end of scene 5?
(page 1055)
2. Why do you think Creon, who has been unchangeable
the entire play, now changed his mind?
3. Make a prediction: What do you think will happen in
the last scene (exodus) of this play ?
Today’s Target: I can read drama and analyze the
author’s use of literary conventions.
Antigone Bellringer #10
2/13/14
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Describe the fate of each of the following characters:
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Antigone
Haemon
Eurydice
Creon
Today’s Target: I can read drama and analyze the
author’s use of literary conventions.