Teirisias

Teirisias, the famous soothsayer of Greece, was born in Thebes and was the son of Eueres and Chariclo. There are a lot of stories that caused his blindness and his ability of telling prophecies.
The most accepted is when he was seven, God blinded him as he revealed certain things that men should not know.
Another story is he was blind as he saw Goddess Athena taking bath. His mother begged Athena to restore his eyes, but instead of restoring his eyes, Athena gave him a staff so that he can walk like having vision and gave him the knowledge of bird.
Another story is he was in a dispute between Hera and Zeus and he went against her, so Hera blinded him. Zeus gave him a longer life and the gift of Prophecy in order to compensate him.

Palm vs Fate

We did simulated teaching on our last tutorial class, just the set-induction and the pre-reading, and our teaching os focus on the theme os the drama entitled Oedipus Rex. It was really interesting, my theme selection is fate, and i used a palm picture as my set induction. And i conbined the idea of fate and fortune telling. I hope my friends like my teaching. Linda's teaching is the one that I most interested with. She used a video that a father who do not know what his baby want although the baby already hinted him what he wants. He pointed on the milk bottle, the milk powder, the cow and even his mather's bra (indicate breast milk), but his father still do not know what he wants. This shows the ignorance theme. Oedipus ignored what the people said around him. They advised him, but he did not listen for his arogance. And the result is his failure in his life. I think this way of teaching is surely useful for us in our future teaching. Set- induction can attracted our students' attention in the class. So, i think this way of teaching is really useful.