Moran Lit and Comp / Calendar for Week of February 1, 2010

Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4

Blue •Creon & Iocaste •Choral Ode 2 •IRONY in Oedipus •Vocabulary Quiz
Red →Complex •Vocabulary: Rex •Vocabulary:
Green sentences, dramatic irony →Connect the irony Reversal,
Yellow compound-complex HW: Find and write to themes— recognition,
sentences. down at least two interpret the use suffering
•Themes in examples of of irony in this play. →Build Aristotle’s
Oedipus Rex dramatic irony from •Sentence practice argument: why are
HW: Annotate Ode each of scenes 1, 2, •Vocabulary these elements
2. and 3. For each HW: Study for necessary in a
→What are the example, explain in vocabulary quiz. great tragedy?
religious beliefs & a sentence or two
ideas that the how it works as an
Chorus expresses? example of
dramatic irony.
[Note that you
must assume that
the audience knows
Oedipus’ actual
situation.]