F - The one when we discussed what happens when individual authority collides with social order.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What happens to authority, leadership, and moral rules when the world has literally been destroyed?

COLLECTED: Hard copies of one-act Greek tragedy "redux" of "The Japanese Quince"

I spoke about the importance of completing assigned tasks on time.

Learners presented their choral reading of "Ode to Man" from Antigone.

I spoke about and gave brief notes on other key speeches/monologues from the play:

• Creon's "Ship of State" speech (lines 179-235),
• Creon v. Antigone - 1st stichomythia (lines 499-594),
• Haemon's metaphor of trees and sails (lines 797-804),
• Tirsesias's prophecy and destruction (lines 1090-1137);

and I made connections between individual authority and social order.

I introduced Greene's "The Destructors" (see the link to the left) as a piece that also questions leadership and law in the face of chaos and disorder. I modelled a close reading of the first two paragraphs of the story.

READ: Greene's "The Destructors," Camus's The Outsider

NEXT CLASS: close reading of text