A Writing-to-Learn/Reader-Response Approach to Teaching Antigone

Duane H. Roen

doi:10.4324/9780203421888-22

A Writing-to-Learn/Reader-Response Approach to Teaching Antigone

Duane H. Roen

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I must begin with a confession. When I was a senior in Clair Stein’s humanities class at Baldwin-Woodville High School, Wisconsin, in the spring of 1967, we studied Sophocles’ Antigone. By the time I had finished reading the play, I fantasized that I could save Antigone from her cursed fate if I were to marry her. Since then, every time I have read or seen or taught the play, I have had flashbacks to those romantic adolescent dreams. I also have them every time I drive by the Antigone Bookstore at the intersection of Fifth Street and Fourth Avenue in Tucson-something that happens several times each week.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Reader Response in Secondary and College Classrooms
Subtitle of host publication	Second Edition
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	225-234
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781136608018
ISBN (Print)	9781138164703
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203421888-22
State	Published - Jan 1 2013

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