Lesson Plan
Topic:	Dramatic Structure	Date:	DAY EIGHT
Learning Outcomes:	1. Students will demonstrate their understanding of usage and active and passive voices.  2. Students will be able to identify and define the elements of dramatic structure.  3. Students will be able to apply these elements to Oedipus the King. *Competency Goal 5: The learner will demonstrate understanding of selected world literature through interpretation and analysis.  *Competency Goal 5.01: The learner will read and analyze selected works of world literature by: building on prior knowledge of the characteristics of literary genres, including fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry, and exploring how those characteristics apply to literature of world cultures. *Competency Goal 2.02 – Learners will create responses that examine a cause/effect relationship among events by effectively summarizing situations, by showing a clear, logical connection among events, by logically organizing connections as a result of transitioning between points, and by developing a graphic to illustrate points.
Activities	Description of activity	Time	Materials
Anticipatory Set	Give five students slips of paper with different events from Oedipus the King.  Ask them to confer and put themselves in order according to when the events occurred in the play.  Then, ask them to share with the class which event they represent.  Discuss how each of these events makes up the plot of the play.  Writers use specfic organizational tools to organize the plot of their plays.  Q: What is one way that we organize our writing when we write an essay or paper? (5 paragraph)  Sophocles follows a specific plot structure that we will look at today.	5 min
Objective	Today, we will look at dramatic structure and how it applies to Oedipus the King.  By applying the dramatic structure to Oedipus the King, we will see how the five elements of plot apply to plays from all over the world and all throughout history.	1 min	outline on board
Instructional Input	Aristotle’s Poetics - states that the plot is the most important aspect of drama - some would argue that character is more important than plot - Plot is the spine of the play and is made up of all the essential character actions or incidents.  The significant events, the sequence and pace of character entrances, the confrontations between character entrances, the confrontations between characters, the changes in the situations, and the outcome of the various actions contribute to the development of the plot.
	Five Elements of a story: - Introduction (Exposition)- prepares reader to understand the story by offering background, setting, and the first view of the protagonist.  Exposition may continue as the plot is under way as enveloping action – descriptions of events that took place before the story.  - Rising Action- series of events of conflict.  The first event in the rising action is the incipient action.  This event creates an unstable situation which does not return to stability until the resolution.                                                                   - Climax- moment of greatest dramatic intensity.  From this point on, only one ending is possible: point of no return.  The protagonist either discovers the correct way to solve the conflict or is forced to accept failure.  Sometimes takes the form of a moment of recognition.  - Falling Action- story works itself out through a few or many remaining events.	15 min	board markers
	The falling action often includes a lull in the action, a brief period of calm before the final dramatic event.  - Resolution (Denouement)- The final solving of the conflict or conclusion of the story.  In a tragedy, the resolution includes the catastrophe, the final disaster that occurs to the protagonist.  If a story contains an explicit moral or lesson, it will usually be stated in the resolution.  The untying or unraveling of the plot where the meaning of the past events becomes clear.  Recognition (epiphany) can also occur at the denouement following a reversal (change of fortune).  The focus is not on change, but on a character’s awareness of change and its moral implications.
Discussion	Q: How does Oedipus finally learn the truth?  (307-310) Q: How does the chorus respond?  (310-311) Q: What did Jocasta do?  How do we know? Q. What does Oedipus do?   Who/What does he blame?	5 min
Modeling	Draw dramatic structure triangle on the board.  Model identifying the exposition (264, 265/ 293 - 294)and rising action: Oedipus devotes himself to find the murderer (269), Tiresias won't tell him who the killer is (276), Tiresias points out the corruption is Oedipus (280), Oedipus accuses Tiresias and Creon of plotting against him, Jocasta and Oedipus believe they have outwitted the gods (296), messenger comes with news of Polybus' death (300), messenger tells Oedipus that Polybus was not his father (303), Jocasta learns the truth (304), Oedipus sends for shepherd.	15 min	board markers
Guided Practice/ Checking for understanding	Q: What do you think the climax of the play is?  Discuss the climax (310).  Q: If someone was having trouble finding the falling action, how would you clarify what it is for them?  Q: Where would you find it?  Read 312 - 313 - falling action - discuss significance of Oedipus' self-blinding. OR Have students work with the student next to them to find the climax and falling action in their reading from last night.  Have them take notes on what pages they found the examples and how they fit the definition.  Move back into whole group and call on students to share what they found.	15 min
Independent Practice	Homework: 314 - 323.  Continue to follow motifs and take close reading notes.	1 min	homework on board