Section 5: The Golden Age of Athens

The Golden Age of Athens
Section 5

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Find Station D: Take one placard per group and one Antigone Script per person.
Script will be in back pocket

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Examine the image in your Station packet. Discuss the question with your partner.

Open Ended

Placard Question: How many people could a theater hold, and how might its shape

help a large audience?

Read
Section Five: Greek Drama

The Golden Age of Athens

Hotspot

Locate Theater of Dionysus on the map.

Multiple Select

How did Greek theater differ from modern plays and movies?

• All the actors were women.

• There were no female actors.

• A chorus helped tell the story.

• The actors were all children.

Drag and Drop

Dionysus was the god of ​

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Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

merriment

drama

love

wisdom

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Read this paragraph to learn why you are visiting this site: 

The city of Athens is the host for several days of drama competitions at the Theater of Dionysus. The playwright Sophocles has submitted a tragedy for the competition. In a tragedy, the main character meets his or her downfall at the end. Sophocles has asked for your help in  rehearsing part of the play. 

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With your partner, help rehearse part of Sophocles’s play, Antigone.
Follow these guidelines: 

• Take a copy of the script for Antigone and assign one part to each person. 

• Practice the selection from Antigoneby reading your character’s part 

Audio Response

After rehearsing part of the play Antigone, choose one of your lines to record here.

Open Audio Recorder

Open Ended

Will Antigone break the law, and what do you think will happen to her?

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Return placard and scripts before submitting your Quizizz