Focus Texts: Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Arthur Miller’s “Tragedy and the Common Man,” and Robert Warshow’s “The Gangster as Tragic Hero”
Essential Questions:
How do multiple authors examine the Aristotelian tragic hero?
How does an “anti-hero” descend into madness as exemplified in various genres?
A. Opening Assignment: To what extent do parents have the right to "spy" or check up on their children? What circumstance might allow or prevent this?
B. Continue reading Act III.
D. Closing: Finish Act III and complete graphic organizer.
Essential Questions:
How do multiple authors examine the Aristotelian tragic hero?
How does an “anti-hero” descend into madness as exemplified in various genres?
A. Opening Assignment: To what extent do parents have the right to "spy" or check up on their children? What circumstance might allow or prevent this?
B. Continue reading Act III.
D. Closing: Finish Act III and complete graphic organizer.