Recent research suggests that information must be made meaningful to students before they will comprehend and remember it. However, because so much curriculum is learned in isolation, many students miss the connections between such disciplines as literature and history. One solution is to connect the teaching of history and literature to a focal point, such as Sophocles' play "Antigone." For instance, history and literature teachers could switch classes for a class period or two, the history teacher giving the play a historical context while the literature teacher explains literary trends of the period to the history students. Such an interdisciplinary approach could be improved with the use of prereading activities to activate students' prior learning, and teachers could allow students to set their own pace by offering a number of appropriate prestudy activities. To make use of multiple cognitive skills, students could (1) see and discuss an audiovisual presentation on ancient Greece; (2) read "Antigone" and write a plot summary; (3) listen to a tape-recording of the play; (4) locate allusions to Greek mythology in the play and analyze their meaning in the dialogue; or (5) present a scene from the play. Role playing, researching various aspects of Greek history, and writing are appropriate strategies for both history and literature students. Such an approach synthesizes knowledge from content areas and improves the quality of the instruction. (Four references are included.) (JC)