{"id":13412,"date":"2021-01-13T19:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T00:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/?p=13412"},"modified":"2021-01-13T19:22:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T00:22:31","slug":"sophomores-read-oedipus-rex-begin-search-for-laios-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/sophomores-read-oedipus-rex-begin-search-for-laios-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophomores Read &#8220;Oedipus Rex,&#8221; Begin Search for Laios\u2019 Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Sophocles\u2019 <em>Oedipus Rex<\/em>, Thebes is suffering from a plague caused by the murder of King Laios. While reading the play, sophomore Honors English students came to a realization: King Laios\u2019 death has not yet been avenged and that\u2019s the cause of COVID-19. Completely unaware of the fact that King Laios\u2019 death is thoroughly avenged at the end of play (they\u2019ve only read the first two scenes), the sophomores have begun a search for Laios\u2019 murderer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so obvious that Laios\u2019 murderer is still at large!\u201d tenth grader Adrianne Weldum told Yampage. \u201cThe god commands us to expel from the land of Thebes an old defilement we are sheltering, and that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m going to do!\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf any man knows by whose hand Laios, son of Labdakos, met his death, I direct that man to tell me everything, no matter what he fears for having so long withheld it,\u201d sophomore Madie Phillips wrote in a schoolwide email blast, completely ignoring the fact that every upperclassmen who took Honors English knows exactly who killed King Laios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the rest of the sophomore class continued to investigate the murder, one student has a very different idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was probably just a highwayman&#8211;I mean highway<em>men<\/em>, probably just highway<em>men<\/em>,\u201d John Clinton (\u201823) said while backing away from our reporter shiftily.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>English teachers have begun to worry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMaybe I shouldn\u2019t have included <em>Oedipus Rex<\/em> in the curriculum with all that\u2019s going on in the world right now. Or maybe I\u2019m just a really great teacher for connecting my curriculum to current events. Who can say? I\u2019m just glad my students are engaging with the material,\u201d English 10 Honors teacher Mr. Dechick reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While we can all agree that the sophomores really need to finish the play, we can\u2019t deny that they <em>are<\/em> engaging with the material. That\u2019s great and all, but, just a suggestion, you might want to stay home from school when they read <em>Macbeth<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, the freshman class just finished reading <em>Twelve Angry Men<\/em> and was collectively underwhelmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cThe god commands us to expel from the land of Thebes an old defilement we are sheltering, and that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m going to do!\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":13413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}