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| |LISTA SEMANAL DE TAREAS |Week: May 21st – May 25th |
|[pic] |3RO DE SECUNDARIA | |
FECHA DE ENTREGA Teacher: Carolina Moraga 3rd Grade | Groups A & B
|YOUR CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS ARE UNDERWAY. |
|THEY WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THE END OF THIS WEEK (21ST-25TH). |
|Locker |READING ASSIGNMENT |
|Thursday, |Your assignment this week is to read the following article regarding the beginnings of Drama in Greece a long, long time ago. |
|May 24th |Theater began in Athens in the early 5th century BCE. It had its roots in religion and was sponsored by the city-state, so everyone felt a|
|by 7AM |powerful connection to it. Drama festivals were celebrations held twice a year in honor of the god Dionysus. It was both an obligation and|
| |a privilege for all citizens to attend performances. |
| |Unlike today, seats were available to everyone. Shops were closed to encourage people to attend, people in jail were let out on bail, and |
| |slaves were sent days in advance to save the best seats for their owners. The city-state provided free tickets and spending money to the |
| |poor. Theater was one of the few public events in which women could participate. |
| |In Athens there were two drama festivals each year. One, held in the winter, presented comedies, amusing plays that often made fun of |
| |well-known Athenians. A more important festival was the Great Dionysia, a solemn event held every spring. The plays written for the |
| |Dionysia were tragedies, stories of famous men and women who were forced to deal with life-changing events that were often beyond their |
| |control. Familiarity with the stories meant that people knew in advance how the plays would end. That did not matter to the audience; at |
| |each festival Athenians looked forward to seeing and hearing what new twists the participating playwrights would give to the well-known |
| |tales. |
| |A prize was given to the playwright who, working with actors, costumers, mask makers, choreographers, and musicians, could produce the |
| |best plays. A playwright wrote not one, but four plays for each festival. Sometimes a writer created a trilogy, three plays related by |
| |story or theme, which would be performed on the same day. It was not a requirement that plays be related, only that each deal with a |
| |well-known story that had been passed down for hundreds of years. |
| |There were many playwrights in 5th century Athens, but the works of only a few have survived. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and |
| |Aristophanes wrote plays that are still performed today, all over the world. Their plays were first performed in the precinct of Dionysus,|
| |a flat area on the south side of the Athenian Acropolis. Many were so successful that they were later presented in other cities. As drama |
| |became popular, theaters appeared all over Greece. |
| |The original meaning of the word theater was "watching place." Theaters did not have a stage; all that was needed was an orchestra, a |
| |flat, circular space for the actors to perform, and a place for the audience. The audience sat on a hillside overlooking the orchestra. |
| |The orchestra was originally a place for dancing. Its edge was marked by a border of stones. At its center was an altar to Dionysus. |
| |The dancers also sang and spoke. They were the Chorus, an integral part of 5th century drama. Tragedies had a Chorus of 15 men, while |
| |comedies had 24. Because Greek plays had no more than three actors, the Chorus helped to tell the story by remarking on what was happening|
| |in the play. The Chorus might represent the elder citizens of a city, women from a palace, or a group of sailors. By commenting on what |
| |was going on they guided, but also reflected, the audience's thinking. |
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| |Vocabulary |
| |obligation - n - duty |
| |solemn - adj - serious |
| |playwright - n - a person who writes plays |
| |choreographer - n - a person who plans dance movements |
| |precinct - n - a defined space |
| |integral - adj - essential for completion |
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| |Then, in a Word document, you will create a table where you detail the main ideas and details in the appropriate columns. |
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| |Main Idea |
| |Details |
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| |FIRST PARAGRAPH |
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| |Do this for every paragraph, and make sure to include your name, date, group, etc. |
| |Print it and leave it in the English III mailbox on Thursday, May 17th by 7AM. |
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