PPT-Close Reading: Agamemnon

The Passage There is the sea and who will drain it dry Precious as silver inexhaustible evernew it breeds the more we reap it tides on tides of crimson dye our robes bloodred Our lives are based on wealth my king. Timothy Shanahan. University of Illinois at Chicago. www.shanahanonliteracy.com. Common Core Standards. New standards are ambitious and are asking teachers to engage children in high level interpretation of challenging texts through close reading. Orestes and his friend . Pylades. find Iphigenia still alive and serving the temple of Artemis in the land of the . Taurians. . (the Crimea of Southern Russia today). . Aeschylus trilogy. 5. th. c. BC. Making Reading fun and interactive in the classroom. Objectives for today. What is close reading? Looking at definitions and rationale. Why should the reader be dependent on the text for information? . Aeschylus’ . Agamemnon. 2. Agenda. Tragedy in Performance. “Words, Endless Words”—Role . of the Chorus. Recap & Update. Tragic Patterns, Tragic Themes in Aeschylus’ . Agamemnon. Discussion. Douglas Fisher. www.fisherandfrey.com. “Read . like a . detective. Write . like a reporter. .”. —David Coleman. Simply assigning hard books . w. ill not ensure that students. l. earn at high levels!. What is Close Reading? . A way of approaching a text to highlight its internal dynamic. . Follows the Hermeneutic Circle of establishing an interplay between part and whole. . The close reading endeavors to explain the internal linguistic and rhetorical aspects of a short passage. . The “what” and “how”. Raleigh/Wake Reading Association. NCDPI ELA Section. Lisa McIntosh. February 10, 2016. Teaching Complex Texts. ELA Instructional Shifts:. Regular practice with . complex text . Aeschylus’ . Agamemnon. 1. Agenda. Discussion: Clytaemnestra. Victim? Monster? Other?. Recap & Update. Play Intro, Aeschylean Patterns. 27-Sep-17. aeschylus agamemnon 1. 2. Discussion: Clytaemnestra. PatroClus. THE TROJAN . WAR. BY STATHIS, PHOTIS, JOHN & . KOSTAS (2. ND. GROUP, f2). Agamemnon. . In Greek mythology, Agamemnon was the son of king Atreus and queen . Aerope. of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra and the father of Iphigenia, Electra, Orestes and . Close reading. Close reading is the skill of . analysing. and interpreting texts. . Text Types. Advertisement. Cartoon. Feature article. Letter of complaint. Novel. Press Release. Song lyrics. Autobiography. Oresteia. Part 1: . Agamemnon. Red-figure vase painting: Aegisthus slays Agamemnon. In Aeschylus’ . Oresteia. , Clytemnestra commits the murder.. Let’s Go to the Movies. https://goo.gl/hTo3Ds. Gendered (?) . His wife’s name is . Clytemnaestra. .. He was the brother of Menelaus and the son of Atreus.. He killed his uncle to get back his throne.. He had four children; . C. hrysothemis. , . E. lectra, . I. University of Illinois at Chicago. www.shanahanonliteracy.com. CCSS set a new comprehension goal. Close reading is not a teaching technique. It is a goal, a desired outcome: we want our children to be able to read text closely; we want them to be close readers. 2015.16. Set up your paper for Cornell Notes.. Title your notes:. Close Reading. What is Close Reading?. Close reading is a. careful . and. . purposeful reading . reading .