Ismene

I think Ismene is a good complement to her sister.  While Antigone seems to have inherited Oedipus'  willingness to act, and his passion, Ismene seems more cautious.  In the story so far, she looks like she is just very submissive and people could walk all over her.  However, I think she is merely more thoughtful, and more likely to think of the consequences of her (or her sister's) actions.  To me, this quote sums it up very well:

"Antigone! Dear sister! Think how hated out father was when he died. How full of shame! ... Then she, who bore the double name of mother and wife, took her own life with a rope.  Then our poor brothers perished in the one day, each of them killing the other with his own hand.  And so, now we two are left alone.  Think what awful end we can expect if we go against Creon's law! ... To act beyond your ability is mindless folly."

She is trying to dissuade Antigone from doing this by telling her what will happen if she is caught. Unfortunately, it didn't work, and only made Antigone mad.

Predicitions

I just wanted to say this here, so that if I'm right, I can say I told you so.

Right now, I'm sitting in my history class, bored out of my mind. (Marissa is asleep)  I've been thinking about Chemistry, and what I think it's going to be like today.  I think the teacher is going to pretend that nothing happened, and go about teaching as usual. (If anything she does can be called usual.)  But, she will have a secret, or maybe like Ms. Dawkins, a not-so-secret hate of us for the rest of the year.  She will also have realized our strengths and probably be not quite scared, but wary of us.  If we work this right, we might have her eating out of our hand for the rest of the year.  

Or, she might go senile, like she does, and completely forget.

Strange Class Today

Well, in case there is someone who hasn't heard yet, today, in honors chemistry, there was a little disagreement (read: a huge fight).  Our teacher just started in on Danielle T at the beginning of the period, and Danielle was polite, but not backing down and being submissive like the teacher wanted, so she called the adminstration to get Danielle sent out.  That's where everyone got really upset.  The admin person came, and Matt went too (It only took about 10 seconds of arguing before the teacher sent him too.).

By the time they left, we were all very mad.  Katelyn was the one who went after her most, although quite a few people did over the period.  Yup, we argued with that teacher the whole period.  Evidently, Danielle and Annie were "laughing uproariously" and that was "unacceptable for a laboratory situation".  Just a thought, but perhaps all this could have been avoided if the teacher's butt wasn't showing?  

Well, I think our teacher learned something today.  In that class, because we don't like the teacher, we really have a bond.  If you unite us with a common enemy, we will take them down.   We are all smart, and will turn someone's words against them.  by the end of class, the teacher just wanted to know what we wanted from her, she had given up.  That was a pretty funny moment, as Evan pointed out afterwards.  It was kind of a "Wait, what do we want? Umm... Apologize! Yeah, that sounds good!"  So, we pretty much only made her promise to apologize to Danielle, and tomorrow we will see if she did.

After class, we all met outside, and we were going to go, as a class, and complain.  However, we came across Danielle as we were walking to the office, and then lost all our rebelliousness (new word!) because we saw she was fine.  So our little mob dispersed and nothing very big ended up happening.  

I'm very curious as to what the rest of the year will be like though.