Notes
1. The New Tech Network (hereinafter New Tech) is a network of primary and secondary schools that use project-based learning as the primary means of delivering content and teaching skills. For more information, see http://newtechnetwork.org.
2. I recall attending some of the first ERWC workshops offered, when the curriculum was still being drafted. The question arose often about whether traditional literature would be replaced with shorter, non-fiction pieces from newspapers, magazines, or journals, for instance. The answer was always that traditional literature would remain central to the English classroom and that the non-fiction pieces were merely there to help reinforce the universal and timeless themes present. Almost a decade later, we are seeing those concerns become manifest. For more information, see The California State University: Expository Reading and Writing Course at http://www.calstate.edu/eap/englishcourse/.
3. Carol Jago, "Creating a Context for the Study of Classical Literature," in With Rigor For All, 9.
4. At East Side, students will read Jon Krakauer's 1996 non-fiction account of Christopher McCandless' death in the Alaskan wilderness, Into the Wild.
5. Richmond Lattimore, "General Introduction," in Euripides I, v.
6. According to Lattimore, he won four times, Ibid., but won five times according to Harold Bloom, "Biography of Euripides," in Euripides, 13.
7. This recounting of the story of Jason and Medea I pulled from largely from memory. When I was in elementary school, I fell in love with Greek mythology. Once the librarian recognized this, she began to hold books for me at the check-out counter she thought would interest me. I read every book on Greek myths in my school. When I exhausted the collection at school, I devoured the books at the local library. I read all the books on Roman mythology and then tackled Norse myths. By the end of junior high school, there were very myths I did not know or was at least familiar with some version.
8. Edith Hall in "Edith Hall on the Play's Reception," in Euripides, 86.
9. Sophocles, Oedipus the King, ll.
10. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, ll. 1397-1398: "He filled our cup with evil things unspeakable/and now himself come home has drunk it to the dregs."
11. Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers, ll. 973-974: "Behold the twin tyrannies of our land, these two/who killed my father and who sacked my house."
12. Aeschylus, The Eumenides, ll. 734-753. Interestingly, Athena was persuaded by Apollo, who acted as counsel for Orestes, that the murder of a father was the more heinous crime. (ll. 736-740) He used as evidence the circumstances of Athena's own birth, that she had no mother but rather sprang full-grown from the head of Zeus. (ll. 663-666)
13. Ibid. l. 283.
14. Ibid. ll. 285-289.
15. Ibid. ll. 348-355.
16. Euripides, Medea, l. 231.
17. Ibid. ll. 233-234.
18. Ibid. ll. 44-47.
19. Ibid. l. 450.
20. Ibid. ll. 455-456.
21. Ibid. ll. 457-458.
22. Ibid. ll. 536-538.
23. Ibid. ll. 548-550.
24. Ibid. ll. 526-575.
25. Ibid. ll. 576-578.
26. Another scene that would work well for analysis of rhetorical mastery are lines 866-975 (Medea convinces Jason that she's had a change of heart and now agrees with him about women, herself included, so that he allows their children to bring to his new bride the lethal gifts).
27. FindLaw, "The Insanity Defense Among the States." http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/the-insanity-defense-among-the-states.html, accessed July 12, 2014.
28. Taylor, "The M'Naghten Rule," 350.
29. Goresen, "Insanity as a Defense to Criminal Responsibility." Oklahoma City University Law Review, 172
30. Ibid. 175.
31. Acheson, "McDonald v. United States: The Durham Rule Redefined," in The Georgetown Law Journal, 581.
32. "The Insanity Defense Among the States," FindLaw, last accessed July 12, 2014, http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/the-insanity-defense-among-the-states.html.
33. American Law Institute, Model Penal Code § 4.01[1]
34. Euripides, Medea, 783-792.
35. FindLaw, "Jury Nullification." http://dictionary.findlaw.com/definition/jury-nullification.html, accessed August 10, 2014.
36. The Law Dictionary, last accessed July 13, 2014, http://thelawdictionary.org/voir-dire/.
37. Justin Reynolds of Hewitt-Trussville Middle City School has an excellent rubric that can be modified and adapted. The rubric can be found at: https://www.trussvillecityschools.com/Teachers/justin.reynolds/Mock%20Trial/Forms/AllItems.aspx
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