Friday, May 18, 2018

Reading Period 27: May 18-24: Metamorphoses

Long Read: 

Ovid's Metamorphoses, books 12-15

Creative Assignment:

Now that you've had a chance to try out your skits in front of an audience, revise one of your skits so that it could be staged by any group of four players. Include stage directions, instructions for costumes and props, and turn out a real finished product.

Writing Assignment: 

Time to fight back! It's your turn to give me feedback on the class. Include favorite and least favorite assignments, projects, activities, readings, and suggestions for next time I teach Ancient Literature to another class of unsuspecting youths. :) You can be as specific or philosophical as you like. Do you feel it was utterly useless to memorize "Ode to Man" from Antigone? Should we have painted more portraits? Feel free to use your rhetorical skills to challenge the very foundations of education itself.

Quiz:

Rank the following works from most interesting (1) to least interesting (8). Think about which were the most worthwhile to read, even if you might not have found them easy to read. The one that gets the worst reviews will be burned from the syllabus for next time, in your honor.

Oedipus Rex
Antigone
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Medea
The Frogs
The Aeneid
Metamorphoses




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