Students research modern examples of civil disobedience, rebellion, anarchy, and civil war before conducting jury deliberations in a trial of either Sophocles' Antigone or a modern parallel Antigone. A parallel is provided. You may choose to
This powerpoint introduces the basic ideas of values debate and provides several easily understood examples of core values, policies, policy standard and attacks and defenses
27 quotations from text of Antigone which could only be by one character. Students' task is to identify the speaker of each. I do this as a partner quiz.
Powerpoint about development of Greek Theaters from village traditions to Classical Athens Theater of Dionysus, short comments about Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides, Modern Value of Greek tragedy
50 epigrams by everybody from Plato to Cesar Chavez for students to draw connections to Antigone. Introduces students informally to some intriguing ideas.
Example of well-known prose speech I converted into pentameter. Patrick Henry Liberty or Death. Can be used w Shakespearean creative writing project or simply as "how to" example of iambic.
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