Tragic Form and the Question of Fault: Reading Unit 1, Grade 12 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Tragic Form and the Question of Fault is Unit 1 of Literature, Rhetoric, and the Examined Life (Part 1) (Grade 12), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 80 pages.

• Hamartia as a tragic-flaw/error-in-judgment concept distinct from accident or villainy
• The chorus as a structural device regulating audience distance
• Dramatic irony as a knowledge-gap structure
• The structural placement of the recognition scene (peripeteia/anagnorisis)
• Catharsis as a contested claim about the function of tragedy
• Allocation-of-responsibility thesis for Oedipus’s catastrophe, evidenced structurally
• Transferability of hamartia as an analytic lens beyond Greek tragedy
• The distinction between plot-based and structure-based evidence in literary argument
• Tragic structure as a generalizable argument-making device

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

AI note: The written content of this resource was drafted with AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the author.