Sunday, April 29 - 45 minutes of Membean practice due before midnight
Monday, April 30 - Magic Lens Quiz - level 3
Thursday, May 3 - Rhetoric and Acts 4 & 5 JC reading quiz
Friday, May 4 - In-class essay - rhetorical analysis
Sunday, May 6 - 45 minutes of Membean practice due before midnight; Julius Caesar choice board assessment due to TurnItIn.com before midnight
Upcoming Due Dates:
Monday, May 7 - Julius Caesar choice board assessment due in class (hard copy); Caesar Extra Credit presentations due today!
Resources:
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (digital copy)
No Fear Shakespeare (struggling? Try this!)
Julius Caesar Choice Board
Monday, April 30
Learning Goal: Examine Shakespeare’s play through in-depth literary analysis.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone.)
Agenda:
- Magic Lens QUIZ
- Turn in rhetorical analysis handout from Act two, if not yet submitted.
- Assignment details: Pick one of the following four instances of persuasion to analyze with SOAPSTone (organizer here), and then to analyze for the rhetorical appeals (organizer here). Remember to use your IAN resource on rhetorical appeals (here).
- Work in Roman families to read and analyze Acts 4 (handout here) & 5 (handout here). Act 4 questions are to be completed as a group; Act 5 questions are completed individually, but you may help each other.
- Prepare for a rhetoric and comprehension quiz over Julius Caesar, acts 4-5 on Thursday.
- JC Acts 4-5: Review the events of Acts 4 & 5 for a reading quiz on Thursday, May 3rd.
- Caesar Choice Board: Continue working on your chosen choice board assignment, due to TurnItIn.com Sunday, May 6th before midnight, and due in class on Monday, May 7th
- Membean: 45 minutes of Membean due by Sunday, May 6th before midnight
Tuesday, May 1
Learning Goal: Examine Shakespeare’s play through in-depth literary analysis.
Targeted Standards:ELAGSE9-10RL4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone.)
Agenda:
- Work in Roman families to read and analyze Acts 4 (handout here) & 5 (handout here). Act 4 questions are to be completed as a group; Act 5 questions are completed individually, but you may help each other.
- Prepare for a rhetoric and comprehension quiz over Julius Caesar, acts 4-5 on Thursday
- JC Acts 4-5: Review the events of Acts 4 & 5 for a reading quiz on Thursday, May 3rd.
- Caesar Choice Board: Continue working on your chosen choice board assignment, due to TurnItIn.com Sunday, May 6th before midnight, and due in class on Monday, May 7th
- Membean: 45 minutes of Membean due by Sunday, May 6th before midnight
Wednesday, May 2
Learning Goal: Examine a film adaptation of Shakespeare’s text; use analytical skills to compare actors’ performances with your own interpretations of characters.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RI2: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. ELAGSE9-10RI6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
Agenda:
- Introduce Level 4 of Magic Lens - Clauses, Sentence Structure, and Types of Sentences
- View the film version of Julius Caesar.
- Work to complete analysis of Act 5 (handout here). Act 5 questions are completed individually, but you may get help from your Roman Family.
- JC Acts 4-5: Review the events of Acts 4 & 5 for a reading quiz TOMORROW.
- Caesar Choice Board: Continue working on your chosen choice board assignment, due to TurnItIn.com Sunday, May 6th before midnight, and due in class on Monday, May 7th
- Membean: 45 minutes of Membean due by Sunday, May 6th before midnight
Thursday, May 3
Learning Goal: Consider the rhetorical strategies speakers employ and evaluate their effectiveness on intended audience. Practice rhetorical analysis through the SOAPSTONE method. Evaluate student writing for its effectiveness.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10W1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. a. Introduce precise claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that establishes clear relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence. b. Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly, supplying evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a manner that anticipates the audience’s knowledge level and concerns. c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and counterclaims. d. Establish and maintain an appropriate style and objective tone. e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
Agenda:
- Practice Magic Lens sentence - level 4
- JC Quiz: Take a comprehension quiz on Acts 4 & 5, and analyze rhetoric from Act 3.
- Add SOAPSTone rhetorical analysis graphic organizer to IAN (handout here)
- Introduce AP rubric for rhetorical analysis (rubric here); read prompt together (Cesar Chavez) and rhetorically analyze using SOAPSTone in Roman families - share your group’s analysis with the class.(https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap15_frq_english_language.pdf - 2015, Q2)
- Be prepared to analyze a piece and write a rhetorical analysis essay in class tomorrow (independent work)!
- Caesar Choice Board: Continue working on your chosen choice board assignment, due to TurnItIn.com Sunday, May 6th before midnight, and due in class on Monday, May 7th
- Membean: 45 minutes of Membean due by Sunday, May 6th before midnight
Friday, May 4
Learning Goal: Consider the rhetorical strategies speakers employ and evaluate their effectiveness on intended audience. Practice rhetorical analysis through the SOAPSTONE method.
Targeted Standards:ELAGSE9-10L3: Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening, and to write and to edit so that it conforms to the guidelines in a style manual (e.g., MLA Handbook, APA Handbook, Turabian’s Manual for Writers) appropriate for the discipline and writing type.ELAGSE9-10L3: Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening, and to write and to edit so that it conforms to the guidelines in a style manual (e.g., MLA Handbook, APA Handbook, Turabian’s Manual for Writers) appropriate for the discipline and writing type.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens Level 4 practice sentence
- Rhetorical analysis - Students analyze the Thatcher prompt and compose an in-class essay (whole period; independent)
- Caesar Choice Board: Continue working on your chosen choice board assignment, due to TurnItIn.com Sunday, May 6th before midnight, and due in class on Monday, May 7th
- Membean: 45 minutes of Membean due by Sunday, May 6th before midnight