Teacher: Ms.

Hankey School: Centaurus High School Grade Level: 11 Content Area:

English
Title: Introduction to Antigone Lesson # 1 of 20

Content Standard(s) addressed by this lesson: (Write Content Standards directly from the standard)
Colorado Academic Standards
Reading for all Purposes:
Standard: 2- Read a wide range of literature (American and world literature) to understand important universal
themes and the human experience
. Relate a literary work to primary source documents of its literary period or historical setting
Understandings: (Big Ideas)
Understand the historical setting of a text and relate it to the literary work to understand important literary
themes.
Inquiry Questions: (Essential questions relating knowledge at end of the unit of instruction, select applicable
questions from standard)
- Does literature inform history, or does history inform literature?
- Is context always important to know for a literary text?
- Do all cultures share similar human themes in their literature?

Evidence Outcomes: (Learning Targets)

Every student will be able to: (Create your own lesson objectives from the standard, follow the ABCD format,
using student voice)
I can: understand the historical context of Antigone and recognize the universal themes at work within the
context.
This means: I will be able to take notes on the historical context of the play and create a storyboard to display
the story that surrounds Antigone.
List of Assessments: (Write the number of the learning target associated with each assessment)
LT1. I will check the students INB for historical context notes, and they will turn in their story board at the end
of class for a non-graded formative check-in with brief and informal feedback given.

Planned Lesson Activities

Name and Purpose of Lesson
Should be a creative title for you and
the students to associate with the
activity. Think of the purpose as the
mini-rationale for what you are trying
to accomplish through this lesson.
Approx. Time and Materials
How long do you expect the activity to
last and what materials will you
need?
The Historical Disaster that is Antigone.
The purpose of this lesson is to give students a grasp on the historical
context and cultural significance of the play Antigone. This is
incredibly important for a few reasons. One, students are far removed
from the time and culture in which this play takes place. Therefore,
giving them context and significance of the play will alleviate
confusion and inspire them to read because they understand why it
matters. Two, the story of Antigone (the character) is one that is
intertwined with many other Sophocles works. This will be more
thoroughly investigated in the next lesson, but this concept will be
introduced to them briefly to keep them from getting confused or
blind-sided the next day. Finally, students need to get excited about
the play. Although much if this lesson will be lecture based, there are
ways to keep students engaged and interacting with the information.
50 minutes
Anticipatory Set I will put three difficult questions on the board that students will
respond to first in their INBs then, in small groups, then we will
The hook to grab students
share out as a class, then finally they will reflect on their answers.
attention. These are actions and
Write, talk, discuss, and write. This process will get them thinking
statements by the teacher to relate the
about universal themes that are included in the standards and spark
experiences of the students to the
interest in the text.
objectives of the lesson, To put
students into a receptive frame of Questions written on the board:
mind.
1. What is more important, loyalty to family or loyalty to state?
To focus student attention on the
2. What is more important, the rights of the individual or the
lesson.
rights of many?
To create an organizing framework
3. What is more important, tradition or law?
for the ideas, principles, or
information that is to follow
(advanced organizers)
An anticipatory set is used any time a
different activity or new concept is to
be introduced.

Procedures Teacher Actions Student Actions

(Include a play-by-play account of
what students and teacher will do
from the minute they arrive to the
minute they leave your classroom.
Indicate the length of each segment of
the lesson. List actual minutes.)
Indicate whether each is:
-teacher input
-modeling
-questioning strategies
-guided/unguided:
-whole-class practice
-group practice
-individual practice
-check for understanding
-other
1. The first part of this class period 1. Take notes with the
will be a lot of lecture. Students will be skeleton notes that we have
filling out skeleton notes as the teacher been using in class. This
lectures. Typically lecture will not be will be a template that
the most ideal way to teach. However, closely resembles two
I think that in this case it is column notes, as CHS in an
appropriate. These students will be AVID school and that note
post grad soon and it is important that taking strategy is an AVID
they practice taking notes and working technique.
through a lot of information. In order
2. Reflect on the notes.
to keep this lecture interesting I will
have lecture slides that are comical and 3. Follow along and
will attach humor and/or memory of create a graphic that
students to the information that I am explains the event/ fact(s)
giving them. that were just taught about
by the teacher.
2. Instruct them to fill out the
inquiries and reflection section of the
notes.
3. Storyboard Activity: This will be
a step by step storyboard creating
activity. The teacher will give a small
number of facts or a little explanation
of the back story to Antigone at a time
then students will be asked to depict
what was discussed in a picture or
graphic on their storyboard. *List of
possible facts to include for activity
listed at the end of the lesson.
Closure Students will have closure for each activity. One, they will reflect at
the end of the note-taking activity.
Those actions or statements by a
teacher that are designed to bring a The second will be at the end of the period. I will have students write
lesson presentation to an appropriate an exit ticket that will ask them how much of the lesson they
conclusion. Used to help students understood. There will be a lot of information thrown at the at once
bring things together in their own and it is important that they understand. They will mark how much
minds, to make sense out of what has they understand on a spectrum and then describe what they did not
just been taught. Any Questions? get, what they did understand, any questions they have, and
No. OK, lets move on is not closure. something they need to go over again.
Closure is used:
To cue students to the fact that they
have arrived at an important point in
the lesson or the end of a lesson.
To help organize student learning
To help form a coherent picture and to
consolidate.

Differentiation
To modify: If the activity is too
advanced for a child, how will you
modify it so that they can be
successful?
To extend: If the activity is too easy
for a child, how will you extend it to
develop their emerging skills?
StoryBoard: The Activity will have a lot of differentiation that will
change from class to class. The facts that are presented to the classes
and the way they are explained will not be scripted. This is in order
to lend itself to differentiation. Students will also create their own
graphic. I will model a possible way to organize the graphic along
with them as they work.
It will go
1. Teacher gives fact(s) about the story.
2. Instruct students to draw the graphic.
3. As they work on their graphic, demonstrate on the doc cam a
way to organize/draw the storyboard.
Assessment
How will you know if students met the
learning targets? Write a description
of what you were looking for in each
assessment.
1. Storyboard: They will turn this in to be checked at the end of
class. This will not be for a grade but for understanding.
2. Exit Ticket: This will be turned in at the end of class for
participation points. I will be able to gauge student understand
because this information is critical later in the unit.

*Example Facts for the Antigone Storyboard: These will be vague in the lesson plan notes because a lot of
this lecture will be conversational, call and answer, and will be broken up with students creating their
graphics.
1. Oedipus was left on the mountain to die and fated to sleep with his mother and kill his father. They try
prevent it and mess it up doing so. Tragedy. At its finest and purest ladies and gentlemen. Not the fate of a
character with a f law, but bad timing and an attempt to change fate.
2. Antigone= Jocasta + Oedipus
3. Yes that is his mother.
4. Uncle Creon on the throne.