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CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 13.01.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Overview
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Background
  5. Strategies
  6. Activities
  7. Performance
  8. Bibliography: Resources for Teachers and Students
  9. Appendix A
  10. Notes

Seeing Oedipus Rex: Using the Chorus to Understand the Tragedy

Sara Delman

Published September 2013

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Appendix A

Common Core Standards

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.1

Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

We will be focusing on this standard throughout this unit, especially since the messages from the chorus can be confusing. Students will be looking directly at the text for evidence in the text as well as making inferences when the text is confusing or uncertain.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.2

Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

This will be one of the main goals in this unit—although we are focusing on the chorus, we are doing so in order to interpret the main messages in the text. Students will write an essay that both summarizes the text and looks at the main messages and analyzes how they interact with one another.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.5

Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.

Students will be studying the structure of tragedy and how it affects the action and theme in the play Oedipus Rex.

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