Daily Lessons for Teaching Antigone

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: The two sisters who enter at the start of the story already seem to be building up a sense of conflict, even before the main conflict is displayed to the reader. Today's objective is to talk about the idea of sibling relationships, what they mean, and how they affect all who are a part of the relationship.

1) 1. Have each student share with the...
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