Sunday, Nov. 12 - Complete 45 minutes of vocabulary practice on Membean.com by 11:59 PM
EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY: There is no Membean requirement this week, but you can earn 10 extra credit points by completing 45 minutes of practice either this week or next (between 11/13 and 11/26).
Access a digital copy of Julius Caesar here.
Monday, November 13
LG: Review methods of characterization and analyze character in Julius Caesar. How do directors and actors adapt a text for performance?
Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL3: Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. ELAGSE9-10RL9: Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).
Agenda:
- Introduce Level 4 of Magic Lens - Clauses, Sentence Structure, and Types of Sentences
- Complete reading of Act 1.
- Ponder and Respond: Consider the following lines of the play: “Men at some time are masters of their fates: / The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” React to the statement “if people do not like what is happening around them, they must speak up and do what is necessary to change things.”
- Review differences in narrative techniques between poetry and prose; summarize Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy and view three clips to critique various interpretations of a scene
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei0fnP9s0KA Mel Gibson
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjuZq-8PUw0 Kenneth Branagh
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muLAzfQDS3M Adrian Lester
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ks-NbCHUns Sir Laurence Olivier
- Compare film portrayals and discuss blocking techniques for staging a scene—(how to annotate a text for nuance of speech and gestures); model with 1.2.1-82.
- Teacher modeling: analyze and annotate a section of Act I, applying understanding of character, plot, and subtext to perform the scene, adding blocking, physical movement, gestures, props, and sound effects.
- Begin working in groups to perform a scene from Act II.
- Homework: There is no Membean requirement this week, but you can earn 10 extra credit points by completing 45 minutes of practice either this week or next (between 11/13 and 11/26).
Tuesday, November 14
LG: Use methods of characterization and an understanding of annotation to plan your scene from Julius Caesar.
Standards: ELAGSE9-10SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. c. Propel conversations by posing and responding to questions that relate the current discussion to broader themes or larger ideas; actively incorporate others into the discussion; and clarify, verify, or challenge ideas and conclusions. d. Respond thoughtfully to diverse perspectives, summarize points of agreement and disagreement, and, when warranted, qualify or justify their own views and understanding and make new connections in light of the evidence and reasoning presented. ELAGSE9-10SL3: Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens Levels 3 & 4 Practice Sentence
- Students in small groups are assigned sections of Act II to perform.
- Analyze a section of Act II, applying understanding of character, plot, and subtext to perform the scene, adding blocking, physical movement, gestures, props, and sound effects.
- Homework: There is no Membean requirement this week, but you can earn 10 extra credit points by completing 45 minutes of practice either this week or next (between 11/13 and 11/26).
Wednesday, November 15
LG: Use methods of characterization and an understanding of annotation to plan your scene from Julius Caesar.
Standards: ELAGSE9-10SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. c. Propel conversations by posing and responding to questions that relate the current discussion to broader themes or larger ideas; actively incorporate others into the discussion; and clarify, verify, or challenge ideas and conclusions. d. Respond thoughtfully to diverse perspectives, summarize points of agreement and disagreement, and, when warranted, qualify or justify their own views and understanding and make new connections in light of the evidence and reasoning presented. ELAGSE9-10SL3: Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens Levels 3 & 4 Practice Sentence
- 10 minutes to meet with groups to continue yesterday’s Student-Led Work Session— analyze a section of Act II, applying understanding of character, plot, and subtext to perform the scene, adding blocking, physical movement, gestures, props, and sound effects.
- Groups perform Act II scenes. Audience follows along in the text - complete “Tracking Caesar” graphic organizer as groups perform (at least the front half of this sheet must be completed), and continue to track your motif.
- After each group’s presentations complete a “Somebody wants” statement: _______ wants _________, but ___________, so ____________.
- Ponder and Respond: Based on the performances you observed, provide a summary of the events of Act II.
- Homework: There is no Membean requirement this week, but you can earn 10 extra credit points by completing 45 minutes of practice either this week or next (between 11/13 and 11/26).
Thursday, November 16
LG: Provide an objective summary; use resources and peers to organize lines into a logical order.
Standards: ELAGSE9-10SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. c. Propel conversations by posing and responding to questions that relate the current discussion to broader themes or larger ideas; actively incorporate others into the discussion; and clarify, verify, or challenge ideas and conclusions. d. Respond thoughtfully to diverse perspectives, summarize points of agreement and disagreement, and, when warranted, qualify or justify their own views and understanding and make new connections in light of the evidence and reasoning presented. ELAGSE9-10SL3: Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens Levels 3 & 4 Practice Sentence
- Complete performances as needed - submit “somebody says” statements. If not yet completed, complete Ponder and Respond: Based on the performances you observed, provide a summary of the events of Act II.
- In Roman families, you will compete to organize the events of a scene from Act III of Julius Caesar.
- Groups will receive a text summary of a scene from Act III of Julius Caesar.
- They will also receive a Ziploc baggy of lines cut into strips from their assigned scene.
- Using the summary of the act, they must paraphrase the lines in order to chronologically sequence the actors’ lines into a cohesive order that fits the action of the summary.
- They will assemble their lines in order on a butcher paper poster.
- In your small groups, read aloud and analyze Act III, focusing on Antony’s and Brutus’s actions in the immediate aftermath of Caesar’s death.
- Homework: There is no Membean requirement this week, but you can earn 10 extra credit points by completing 45 minutes of practice either this week or next (between 11/13 and 11/26).
Friday, November 17
LG: Consider the rhetorical strategies speakers employ and evaluate their effectiveness on intended audience. Standards: ELAGSE9-10SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. c. Propel conversations by posing and responding to questions that relate the current discussion to broader themes or larger ideas; actively incorporate others into the discussion; and clarify, verify, or challenge ideas and conclusions. d. Respond thoughtfully to diverse perspectives, summarize points of agreement and disagreement, and, when warranted, qualify or justify their own views and understanding and make new connections in light of the evidence and reasoning presented. ELAGSE9-10SL3: Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.
Agenda:
- Opener: watch a scene from Law and Order https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjG2AMYiyrg where the lawyers deliver closing arguments from a murder. Critique the persuasive and rhetorical moves each lawyer makes.
- Finish/Review Act III of Julius Caesar, and complete questions on Act 3 as a group.
- Prepare for a debate on the following question: Should the conspirators be charged with murder for killing Caesar, or should they be exonerated for protecting Rome by assassinating a tyrant?
- Analyze evidence supporting and refuting the conspirators’ actions. For example, consider the following:
- Caesar’s physical limitations (1.2.97-131)
- Why should Caesar be king? 1.2.135-61)
- The fate of Marullus and Flavius (1.2. 282-285)
- Brutus’s reasons for killing Caesar (2.1.10-34)
- Caesar refuses the crown (1.2.233-48)
- Caesar’s will (3.2.242-44 and 249-254)
- As time permits, begin watching Julius Caesar, Acts 1-3.
- Homework: There is no Membean requirement this week, but you can earn 10 extra credit points by completing 45 minutes of practice either this week or next (between 11/13 and 11/26).