Transcript FISHBOWL ANTIGONE E10

Antigone
Themes can be SUBJECT to
opinion….
Fishbowl Set-up How-to
1. Only people sitting in the inner circle
may speak.
2. If someone from the outer circle has
something to say, he or she sits in
one of the two side desks.
3. Said participant may stay as long as
he or she has something meaningful
to share.
4. Outer circle participants must take
notes.
Fish Bowl Rules
1.
2.
Only one person speaks at a time.
Participants must use cues such as body language and
eye contact to determine when it is appropriate to speak.
3. If two people start to speak at the same time, one must
yield.
4. All participants look at the person speaking.
5. Questions can be asked of other participants in the inner
circle to motivate them to join in.
6. Disagree politely.
7. State your ideas and support them with evidence.
8. Respond to the comments of other participants by
agreeing or disagreeing and offering additional evidence.
9. Record notes, quotations from the text(s), statistics, etc.,
that support your ideas and opinions.
10. The teacher or seminar leader does not participate in the
discussion except to provide a new question or to
terminate an irrelevant or inappropriate line of discussion.
Question 1: Moral Dilemmas
• When put in a moral dilemma, how
does Creon rationalize his decisions?
• How does Antigone rationalize her
decisions?
• When you encounter a moral dilemma,
how do you rationalize your decisions?
(Remember to provide scenarios and
be specific.)
Question 2: Dis/Obedience
• Can a law be just if it goes against a moral or
ethical rule in the society?
• How do characters in Antigone determine
whether a law is just?
• When they feel a law is unjust, how do the
characters decide when to take action when
they feel a law is unjust?
• How do you determine if a law is unjust?
• What is your obligation as a citizen if a law is
not upright?
Question 3: Love/Obsession
• When does love become an
obsession?
– With Creon?
– With Antigone?
– With Haimon?
• Do the characters have the strength to
end their obsession?
• When have you seen love become an
obsession?
• (When)Can you end it?
Question 4: Gender Roles
• What do Creon, Ismene, and
Choragus's responses to Antigone’s
breaking gender norms say about them
and the society?
• What about Haimon?
• How do you, people, the media, society,
religion, etc. react when women break
or challenge gender norms?
• What does that say about what we
value?
Question 5: Suicide
• What is Sophocles’ message regarding
suicide? Think about-– Suicide as a consequence of characters’
frustration that they have no control of
their own fate
– Suicide as committed by characters who
accept their fate
– Suicide as being used to escape fate
Wrap-up
• For homework, reflect on the ideas
you explored with your classmates
about gender, moral dilemmas,
obedience and disobedience, love
and obsession, and suicide.
– Write one page in your writer’s
notebook processing what you had
learned. This is due by the next class
period.