AP Literature teacher Mrs. Coyle-Ray provides her students a hand-on-learning activity that brings home “understanding dramatic irony, and tragedy.”  She explains, “What is seen from the audience’s perspective is often not what is understood from the character’s perspective. When the audience understands what is going on,the audience often is able to pass judgment, feel compassion, or laugh at certain situations. Everyone is blind to something.  We all have something to learn from Oedipus’s blindness.”

All the students engage in this activity, part of their final for the conclusion of “Oedipus Rex”.  Each student is partnered with another. The student, assigned to be blind listened to directions by their seeing partner to create a drawing of a specific scene from the play. 

This year, it was the last group activity for the AP Literature students before PCS headed out for the extended spring break due to the outbreak of the Covid-19.  

PCS students are now all participating in distance learning using Google Classrooms, Zoom and various other methods.