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Antigone DL Project
Ms. Regen’s Disciplinary Literacy Lesson Guide
Overarching Questions? What does this play teach us about the influence of our values on our behavior? What does this play teach us about ways to persuade others?
Academic Purposes:
Reading: Analysis of character traits, motivations and relationships
Writing: Analysis of how authors create characters and appeals used by characters to persuade others
Before Reading Write about a time when something you valued the most influenced your behavior
QuickWrite/Sharing
I Read to Get the Gist
Sorting Questions: What’s happening? Who are the characters? What are the characters saying? What do we know about the characters? How do we know this?
QuickWrites, Think, Pair and Share, Reader’s Writer’s Notebooks, T-Charts
II Read for Significance
Task: Choose a statement/action that reveals a character’s trait, motivation or the nature of the relationship of two characters. Explain how this statement/action reveals a character’s trait, motivation or the nature of the relationship of two characters. T-Chart, class discussion, Reader’s/Writer’s Notebooks
III Read to Interpret
Questions: What does (a character) value the most? How does this influence the character’s behavior? What is (a character)’s greatest mistake? How does the character’s value influence his mistakes?
QuickWrites, Reader’s/Writer’s Pair or Trio, Charting, Class Discussion, Video Clips or Podcasts
IV Read to Analyze Author’s Craft
Questions: How did Sophocles develop his characters? How does (a character) persuade another character?
QuickWrites, Reader’s/Writer’s Pair or Trio, Charting, Mentor Sentences
After Reading
WriteLike: Students write a narrative essay with well-developed characters following the techniques used by Sophocles. OR Students write an essay to persuade an audience using the persuasive appeals employed by the characters in Antigone.
Model Narrative Essays and Persuasive Essays Narrative Essays, Persuasive Essays
Sample Narrative Essay: http://www.thewritesource.com/studentmodels/wi-travolta.htm
Overarching Questions? What does this play teach us about the influence of our values on our behavior? What does this play teach us about ways to persuade others?
Academic Purposes:
Reading: Analysis of character traits, motivations and relationships
Writing: Analysis of how authors create characters and appeals used by characters to persuade others
Before Reading Write about a time when something you valued the most influenced your behavior
QuickWrite/Sharing
I Read to Get the Gist
Sorting Questions: What’s happening? Who are the characters? What are the characters saying? What do we know about the characters? How do we know this?
QuickWrites, Think, Pair and Share, Reader’s Writer’s Notebooks, T-Charts
II Read for Significance
Task: Choose a statement/action that reveals a character’s trait, motivation or the nature of the relationship of two characters. Explain how this statement/action reveals a character’s trait, motivation or the nature of the relationship of two characters. T-Chart, class discussion, Reader’s/Writer’s Notebooks
III Read to Interpret
Questions: What does (a character) value the most? How does this influence the character’s behavior? What is (a character)’s greatest mistake? How does the character’s value influence his mistakes?
QuickWrites, Reader’s/Writer’s Pair or Trio, Charting, Class Discussion, Video Clips or Podcasts
IV Read to Analyze Author’s Craft
Questions: How did Sophocles develop his characters? How does (a character) persuade another character?
QuickWrites, Reader’s/Writer’s Pair or Trio, Charting, Mentor Sentences
After Reading
WriteLike: Students write a narrative essay with well-developed characters following the techniques used by Sophocles. OR Students write an essay to persuade an audience using the persuasive appeals employed by the characters in Antigone.
Model Narrative Essays and Persuasive Essays Narrative Essays, Persuasive Essays
Sample Narrative Essay: http://www.thewritesource.com/studentmodels/wi-travolta.htm
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