This week we say adieu to both Zoe, Jake and Kimberly, who will embark upon their senior projects. Take a moment to thank both for their work in our class.

Monday

Starting with a journal entry: Describe rain. We will then turn our attention to "Tumooh (Ambition)" from Bowden's "Tales of the Tyrant" and discussing Bowden's writing techniques. What one passage or sentence strikes you as particularly effective? We will start by discussing the first part that you read on Friday, and then will read aloud together. Time permitting, you and your partner will have the last ten minutes of class to work through your scene from Oedipus Rex.

HW: Read up through and including line 1022.

Tuesday

Today we are going to look at four speeches: Theseus, Creon, Oedipus, and the Chorus. How doe Sophocles present these four points of view? What is their position in the play, and what are we to take from their examples? Time permitting, partners will again have some time in class to review their lines.

HW: Tomorrow we will begin having students perform their lines.

Wednesday

Student performances of the selected scenes from Oedipus Rex.

HW: Reading Oedipus at Colonus. Read up through and including line 1416.

Thursday

We will finish the student performances of the selected scenes. Once done, we will return to the article on Sadam Hussein.

HW: Read up through line 1765 in Oedipus at Colonus.

Friday

No school for Good Friday.

HW: Enjoy the weekend. Art projects are due Monday. If religious obligations complicates your being able to meet this deadline, please speak to me privately.