1. Note: Wait to ask me questions/tell me your personal issues. 1) Grab your manila folder from inside of your green portfolio. 2) LEAVE the GREEN FOLDER (& last year’s work) in the cabinet 3) Bring your manila/beige portfolio with all NEW WORK (from this school year) to your seat. 4) Fill out the purple cover sheet (stapled to the inside cover of your portfolio) with the names of your CLASSES (no credit recovery or ROP classes that didn’t require a portfolio asst.) 5) Look at your purple cover sheet to see the order in which you should put all your NEW portfolio pieces. a. If you have your Noah and Utnapishtim essay, put that on top (if you don’t have it, no worries– you won’t get points off today). b. Next, put portfolio pieces from period 1, period 2, period 3, period 4, period 5 & period 6. MAKE SURE THEY ARE IN ORDER BY PERIOD!!! 6) Once everything is in the right order, pass forward your portfolio to the front of the row.

2. Warm-up: Some good characteristics can be bad if it is taken to an excess. Choose two of the following “good” characteristics/goals to analyze. Then answer both questions about each trait (in complete sentences): 1) Why is this a good characteristic/goal? 2) Why can this characteristic/goal become bad if taken too far?  Having pride in who you are  Being careful who you trust* choose 2  Seeking the truth, at any cost to analyze  Being determined to defend your country/city

3.  Period 5: warm-ups due on stool after class.  If you have a portfolio assignment that you still need to pick up/get signed by a teacher today, please get it from them and bring to me by 3:30 to get credit for it still.  If you cannot have it by 3:30 today, you need to have the teacher e-mail me stating that it was their fault that the assignment isn’t in in order to get points for it being “on time.” (Without an e-mail from your teacher, you will not get points.)  If it’s your fault that you don’t have an assignment, I’ll still sign it until Thursday of next week, but not for “on time points” (physically bring it to my desk and watch me sign off)  Note: if you just drop it in your portfolio without me signing it, I will NOT KNOW IT IS IN THERE AND WILL NOT SIGN IT.

4.  Autobiographical Incident Essays are due next week!  You should be working on your 3 rd paragraph– the climax of the story  Use your tools to help you!  If you need help, come in for tutoring during 2 nd lunch or after school.

5. STANDARDS Speaking Applications 2.3: Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the significant ideas of literary works.

6. Let’s read pages 258-259. I’ll finish signing portfolios as you complete them.

7. Before we read, consider the following that is important to understanding characters:  The Greeks believed that Oracles were women (50+ years old) who were inspired with knowledge from the gods.  The oracle’s statements influenced the decisions of the private lives of people as well as of public policy.  The oracle at Delphi was said to communicate the will of Zeus through his son– Apollo. She lived apart from her husband and answered questions, out of sight, from inside a temple set up for Apollo.  Although unseen, the oracle’s words were recorded by priests.

8. Characters (continued…):  Prophets, or seers, were believed to have knowledge of interpreting signs of what was to come (i.e. predict the future).  Like Oracles, prophets would interpret the will of the gods, but were not connected with religious institutions.  A person became a prophet by claiming to be able to predict the future… which meant that some prophets were questioned as genuine prophets.  Who in Oedipus the King is an oracle, and who is a prophet?

9. REMEMBER YOUR PARTS: 1. Oedipus 2. The Priest 3. Creon 4. The Chorus 5. The Leader (of the Chorus) 6. Tiresias 7. Jocasta 8. A Messenger, guard and attendants 9. A Shepherd 10. Priests of Thebes

10. Now turn to page 261:  Focus Your Reading