We started class with 20 minutes of independent reading time. Since it's Wednesday, we found a word from our reading to share in our writer's notebooks. My word was "sententiously" from Antigone: "Money!" Creon said sententiously. "There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money" (Sophocles 201). As used in this passage, the word means "in a pompous, moralizing manner; self-righteously." Using this word to describe Creon's tone gives more insight into the kind of person he is.
We returned to the Ode 1 analysis that we began yesterday. Now that students have paraphrased one of the translations, they will evaluate all four translations for effectiveness of language, specifically sentence structure and word choice. Ultimately, students will decide which translation is the most effective.
Students turned in their "Truth" essays today. Because it is a major grade, an essay turned in one day late will suffer a 20 point penalty.
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