Friday September 7th
Homework:
- By monday read 100 pages out of man booker prize independent reading book
- Prepare for in class essay Monday (can have skeletal outline)
- Bring one revised college essay Wednesday (google doc it)
-We finished reading Oedipus the King
Examples of 4 stages of a hero:
Innocence - (pg.2) “Here I am, myself, world- famous Oedipus”
- Unaware he killed Laus
- (pg.64) “He is dead and in his grave.”
- the city’s distress
- plague
- sickness
- dead bodies
- mourning
- ships
- blinded himself
- he sees that he is the one wrong
- jocasta distancing herself from Oedipus
- Realization of marrying his mother
- casts himself out of Thebes
- he gives his children advice on their journey and wishes a better life upon them
Connections to Lance Armstrong Article
- went through the hero journey:
- innocence: sport is overall innocent
- initiation: starts doping;l wanted to be greater than the sport itself, wanted to control his fate, competition itself
- chaos: let down country, denial(wanted to go back into innocence period, nostalgia),
- resolution: no wisdom gained, steps away (chooses to make a better choice for his daughter's life), on similar path with Oedipus; realization of reality
-We discussed the in class essay guidelines
- notes online (Mrs. Smith’s calendar, end of week 3)
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