Tiresias

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

Nuance Academy: None

After today I should be able to: Identify what is important in a text.

Reading: None

Agenda:

1. Word of the Day!
2. Writing better commentary practice.
1. Sophocles begins by presenting Oedipus delivering an emotional speech to his suffering citizens, which highlights his strength and compassion as a leader. Take, for example, how Oedipus acknowledges the suffering of his people, explaining that “my spirit groans for city and myself and you at once” and that he has not been “sleeping in indifference” while Thebes suffers.
2. This evidence suggests...because typically effective leaders...
3. Read the play lines 376-595.
4. Great Idea: justice.

Homework:

1. Membean session