- finished watching Othello
- completed and turned in Othello Venn diagrams
- worked in groups on a Julius Caesar crossword puzzle
- worked in groups to create a collage of images representing Othello vocabulary words
- were given an exam review (Here is a link to the review.)
Monday, June 8, 2009
June 8: Exam Review Activities
Today, students
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
June 4: Othello, Grade Reports, Test Corrections, etc.
Today, students watched a modern version of Othello. They are to create Venn diagrams for Othello, Desdemona, Iago, and Michael Cassio - comparing/contrasting the version we read with the movie version.
After the movie, students were given grade reports, Julius Caesar test scantron with assessment sheet and instructions for corrections and additional information. These instructions are below.
Julius Caesar test assessment/corrections and 4th quarter make-up work.
TEST ASSESSMENT/CORRECTIONS: due Monday, June 8
On a separate sheet of paper, answer the following questions (assuming you studied)
– 1) How did you study vocabulary?
– 2) How did you study quotes?
– 3) How did you study characters?
– 4) How did you study for questions 1-42 on the review sheet?
On the “Part 1” handout, highlight the numbers you missed (they are marked on your scantron).
You will receive ¼ of a point per point missed on Part 1 when you complete the following:
VOCABULARY (1-25)
• Re-define the vocabulary words. (Yes, that means to look them up again and write them again. You may do this on the “Part 1” handout.)
QUOTES (26-39) Answer all questions about each quote you missed.
• Who is speaking these lines?
• What do they mean? What is the speaker talking about?
• Why was the speaker saying them? To whom was the speaker talking?
CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS (40-49)
• For each character you missed, write
– his/her name
– 3 ways to describe him/her
• For example: CAESAR
1. killed by his friend
2. ambitious
3. deaf in one ear
Staple the following together, with the scantron on top:
1. scantron 2. separate sheet of paper with questions 1-4 answered 3. “Part 1” handout with test items
MAKE-UP WORK
· If you did not turn in a research paper, you may turn one in by the beginning of class Monday, June 8, for 50% of the 75 points the paper was originally worth. You may turn in a PowerPoint to the y-drive for a maximum of 10 points. That is due by the end of the school day tomorrow, June 5.
· The “Shakespeare’s Legacy” project may be turned in by the beginning of class on Monday, June 8 for 66% of your grade. There are no more extra copies of this assignment. It is saved on the y-drive, English 10 “End of Year Documents” folder.
OPTIONAL TEST
• If your test average is low, you can try to boost it by taking an optional test after school on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday of next week. (June 8, 9, 10)
• You must let Mrs. Woodliff know by Monday if you plan on taking the test.
***Any specific problems or questions with your grade report need to be addressed OUTSIDE OF CLASS.***
After the movie, students were given grade reports, Julius Caesar test scantron with assessment sheet and instructions for corrections and additional information. These instructions are below.
Julius Caesar test assessment/corrections and 4th quarter make-up work.
TEST ASSESSMENT/CORRECTIONS: due Monday, June 8
On a separate sheet of paper, answer the following questions (assuming you studied)
– 1) How did you study vocabulary?
– 2) How did you study quotes?
– 3) How did you study characters?
– 4) How did you study for questions 1-42 on the review sheet?
On the “Part 1” handout, highlight the numbers you missed (they are marked on your scantron).
You will receive ¼ of a point per point missed on Part 1 when you complete the following:
VOCABULARY (1-25)
• Re-define the vocabulary words. (Yes, that means to look them up again and write them again. You may do this on the “Part 1” handout.)
QUOTES (26-39) Answer all questions about each quote you missed.
• Who is speaking these lines?
• What do they mean? What is the speaker talking about?
• Why was the speaker saying them? To whom was the speaker talking?
CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS (40-49)
• For each character you missed, write
– his/her name
– 3 ways to describe him/her
• For example: CAESAR
1. killed by his friend
2. ambitious
3. deaf in one ear
Staple the following together, with the scantron on top:
1. scantron 2. separate sheet of paper with questions 1-4 answered 3. “Part 1” handout with test items
MAKE-UP WORK
· If you did not turn in a research paper, you may turn one in by the beginning of class Monday, June 8, for 50% of the 75 points the paper was originally worth. You may turn in a PowerPoint to the y-drive for a maximum of 10 points. That is due by the end of the school day tomorrow, June 5.
· The “Shakespeare’s Legacy” project may be turned in by the beginning of class on Monday, June 8 for 66% of your grade. There are no more extra copies of this assignment. It is saved on the y-drive, English 10 “End of Year Documents” folder.
OPTIONAL TEST
• If your test average is low, you can try to boost it by taking an optional test after school on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday of next week. (June 8, 9, 10)
• You must let Mrs. Woodliff know by Monday if you plan on taking the test.
***Any specific problems or questions with your grade report need to be addressed OUTSIDE OF CLASS.***
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
June 2 - Peep Shows, Othello
Today, students...
1.Turned in Othello vocabulary
2.Presented Peep Shows
3.Presented Make-up Research Presentations
4.Began reading the prose version of Othello.
Make-up Presentations:
•If your PowerPoint isn’t saved to the “Turn in Work Here” folder, you will not be allowed to give it.
•If this is the case, you need to save your PowerPoint to that folder, and I will grade it. You will not receive points for presenting, but you will receive points for the PowerPoint itself.
Othello - A Prose Version by Charles & Mary Lamb
•Read the background info and comprehension questions. (handouts)
•Read the 60-second News version of the story.
–Highlight adjectives that describe the characters.
–Answer any questions you can at this point.
We read through the bottom of the front of the 2nd page. HOMEWORK:
•Finish reading Othello.
Tests will be returned on Thursday. Assessment/correction option will be given.
1.Turned in Othello vocabulary
2.Presented Peep Shows
3.Presented Make-up Research Presentations
4.Began reading the prose version of Othello.
Make-up Presentations:
•If your PowerPoint isn’t saved to the “Turn in Work Here” folder, you will not be allowed to give it.
•If this is the case, you need to save your PowerPoint to that folder, and I will grade it. You will not receive points for presenting, but you will receive points for the PowerPoint itself.
Othello - A Prose Version by Charles & Mary Lamb
•Read the background info and comprehension questions. (handouts)
•Read the 60-second News version of the story.
–Highlight adjectives that describe the characters.
–Answer any questions you can at this point.
We read through the bottom of the front of the 2nd page. HOMEWORK:
•Finish reading Othello.
Tests will be returned on Thursday. Assessment/correction option will be given.
Friday, May 29, 2009
May 29 - Julius Caesar Test Instructions
The following instructions were given to students at the beginning of class.
1. Turn completed KWL charts in to clear bin.
2. Put everything away.
3. Take The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Test Part 1. You may not use your book or notes on Part 1
4. Mark your answers on the scantron.
5. When you finish Part 1, turn in the test packet to its designated spot and take Part 2.
6. Part 2 is open-book, open-note.
7. Continue to mark your answers on the scantron.
8. When you finish Part 2, turn the scantron in to the clear bin (make sure your name is on it!) and Part 2 to its designated spot.
9. After you finish the test: Othello Vocabulary (These are the last vocabulary words of the year. They will be on your semester exam!)
a. Use a dictionary to define Othello vocabulary words (see back of this page)
b. Make a cinquain for 5 words. Cinquains should be original (This is not group work!) Illustrate each cinquain.
c. Complete the wordsearch for fun.
d. You are expected to work on this until the end of class. Turn in if finished. If not, it is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, June 2!
Remember, your Peep Shows are due June 2!
Make-up research presentations will also be presented June 2!
1. Turn completed KWL charts in to clear bin.
2. Put everything away.
3. Take The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Test Part 1. You may not use your book or notes on Part 1
4. Mark your answers on the scantron.
5. When you finish Part 1, turn in the test packet to its designated spot and take Part 2.
6. Part 2 is open-book, open-note.
7. Continue to mark your answers on the scantron.
8. When you finish Part 2, turn the scantron in to the clear bin (make sure your name is on it!) and Part 2 to its designated spot.
9. After you finish the test: Othello Vocabulary (These are the last vocabulary words of the year. They will be on your semester exam!)
a. Use a dictionary to define Othello vocabulary words (see back of this page)
b. Make a cinquain for 5 words. Cinquains should be original (This is not group work!) Illustrate each cinquain.
c. Complete the wordsearch for fun.
d. You are expected to work on this until the end of class. Turn in if finished. If not, it is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, June 2!
Remember, your Peep Shows are due June 2!
Make-up research presentations will also be presented June 2!
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Julius Caesar - REVIEW DAY, May 27
Today, students took a quiz over Act V, received graded Act III & IV quiz, took a few notes, finished the video of Julius Caesar, and received a test review.
Notes: Tragedy, Tragic Hero, Tragic Flaw
• Tragedy: a story in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances.
• Tragic Hero: According to Aristotle, a tragic hero is “Man of high standard who falls from that high because of a flaw that has affected many”
– Modern tragic hero – Anakin Skywalker
• That flaw is called a tragic flaw.
KWL Chart is due Friday, BEFORE the test!
Pre-Reading, Acts I – V Vocabulary.
Quotes from Julius Caesar: Who is the speaker? What/who is s/he talking about? What does the quote mean?
• Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot, Take thou what course thou wilt.
• Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.
• Beware the Ides of March!
• The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars, But in ourselves that we are underlings.
• This was the noblest Roman of them all.
• … You have some sick offense within your mind, Which by the right and virtue of my place I ought to know of…
• And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg Which hatched would as his kind grow mischievous, And kill him in the shell.
• Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
• It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
• If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayst live; If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.
• When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
• Et tu Brute
Characters to know for matching
• Soothsayer
• Metellus Cimber
• Cassius
• Cinna, the poet
• Decius
• Brutus
• Casca
• Calpurnia
• Antony
• Lepidus
Reading Comprehension (refer to Act questions and worksheets)
1. Tragic Hero; Tragic Flaw
2. Feast of Lupercal
3. foreshadowing
4. second triumvirate
5. Act I, Scene i – what happens and why
6. Act I, Scene ii – what troubling things have happened this day?
7. Why does Brutus join the conspiracy?
8. Why not attack Antony?
9. What is Caesar like in Act II, Scene ii?
10. Why doesn’t Calpurnia want Caesar to go to the Senate?
11. Why do the conspirators ask Caesar to pardon Publius Cimber?
12. What is Caesar’s attitude when he is at the Senate in Act III?
13. Why does Antony shake hands with the conspirators?
14. What does calling someone a “hart” (deer) mean?
15. In his funeral oration, how does Antony show that the conspirators were not honorable?
16. Act III, Scene iii – purpose?
17. Why does Antony point to Caesar’s wounds and identify the tears in his cloak?
18. What impression does Shakespeare give of the plebeians in Act III?
19. While reading Act IV, how do we know there is a change in Brutus and Cassius’s friendship?
20. How does Brutus react to Portia’s death?
21. After seeing the ghost, why does Brutus ask his servants why they cried out in their sleep?
22. What does Caesar’s ghost symbolize?
23. Before departing for battle, what do Brutus and Cassius say to each other?
24. What is Cassius’ fatal mistake?
25. How does Antony treat Brutus’ followers when they have been captured? (remember Lucilius?)
26. What is the main reason that Brutus does not want to be captured and taken back to Rome?
27. Why is this play considered a tragedy?
28. Themes (central ideas) of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. (What can be learned about life from this play?)
29. To what does Caesar compare himself before he is assassinated? Why does he make this comparison?
30. Why does Brutus let Antony speak at Caesar’s funeral?
31. What reason does Brutus give for killing Caesar?
32. What is Antony’s true purpose in delivering his funeral oration?
33. How does Antony prove Caesar wasn’t ambitious?
34. Difference between Brutus and Antony’s funeral orations?
35. Why do Brutus and Cassius argue in Act IV? What is the real reason Brutus is so upset?
36. What happens to Portia?
37. In Act V, what ominous sign does Cassius report has caused him to fear the coming battle?
38. What does Cassius say is avenged by his death?
39. Why did Pindarus stab Cassius?
40. How does Titinius respond to Cassius’ death?
41. Why did Antony say Brutus was the “noblest Roman of them all”?
42. What is Brutus’s tragic flaw?
To view YouTube videos of the BBC's animated The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, click here.
Notes: Tragedy, Tragic Hero, Tragic Flaw
• Tragedy: a story in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances.
• Tragic Hero: According to Aristotle, a tragic hero is “Man of high standard who falls from that high because of a flaw that has affected many”
– Modern tragic hero – Anakin Skywalker
• That flaw is called a tragic flaw.
KWL Chart is due Friday, BEFORE the test!
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Test Review
Pre-Reading, Acts I – V Vocabulary.
Quotes from Julius Caesar: Who is the speaker? What/who is s/he talking about? What does the quote mean?
• Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot, Take thou what course thou wilt.
• Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.
• Beware the Ides of March!
• The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars, But in ourselves that we are underlings.
• This was the noblest Roman of them all.
• … You have some sick offense within your mind, Which by the right and virtue of my place I ought to know of…
• And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg Which hatched would as his kind grow mischievous, And kill him in the shell.
• Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
• It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
• If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayst live; If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.
• When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
• Et tu Brute
Characters to know for matching
• Soothsayer
• Metellus Cimber
• Cassius
• Cinna, the poet
• Decius
• Brutus
• Casca
• Calpurnia
• Antony
• Lepidus
Reading Comprehension (refer to Act questions and worksheets)
1. Tragic Hero; Tragic Flaw
2. Feast of Lupercal
3. foreshadowing
4. second triumvirate
5. Act I, Scene i – what happens and why
6. Act I, Scene ii – what troubling things have happened this day?
7. Why does Brutus join the conspiracy?
8. Why not attack Antony?
9. What is Caesar like in Act II, Scene ii?
10. Why doesn’t Calpurnia want Caesar to go to the Senate?
11. Why do the conspirators ask Caesar to pardon Publius Cimber?
12. What is Caesar’s attitude when he is at the Senate in Act III?
13. Why does Antony shake hands with the conspirators?
14. What does calling someone a “hart” (deer) mean?
15. In his funeral oration, how does Antony show that the conspirators were not honorable?
16. Act III, Scene iii – purpose?
17. Why does Antony point to Caesar’s wounds and identify the tears in his cloak?
18. What impression does Shakespeare give of the plebeians in Act III?
19. While reading Act IV, how do we know there is a change in Brutus and Cassius’s friendship?
20. How does Brutus react to Portia’s death?
21. After seeing the ghost, why does Brutus ask his servants why they cried out in their sleep?
22. What does Caesar’s ghost symbolize?
23. Before departing for battle, what do Brutus and Cassius say to each other?
24. What is Cassius’ fatal mistake?
25. How does Antony treat Brutus’ followers when they have been captured? (remember Lucilius?)
26. What is the main reason that Brutus does not want to be captured and taken back to Rome?
27. Why is this play considered a tragedy?
28. Themes (central ideas) of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. (What can be learned about life from this play?)
29. To what does Caesar compare himself before he is assassinated? Why does he make this comparison?
30. Why does Brutus let Antony speak at Caesar’s funeral?
31. What reason does Brutus give for killing Caesar?
32. What is Antony’s true purpose in delivering his funeral oration?
33. How does Antony prove Caesar wasn’t ambitious?
34. Difference between Brutus and Antony’s funeral orations?
35. Why do Brutus and Cassius argue in Act IV? What is the real reason Brutus is so upset?
36. What happens to Portia?
37. In Act V, what ominous sign does Cassius report has caused him to fear the coming battle?
38. What does Cassius say is avenged by his death?
39. Why did Pindarus stab Cassius?
40. How does Titinius respond to Cassius’ death?
41. Why did Antony say Brutus was the “noblest Roman of them all”?
42. What is Brutus’s tragic flaw?
To view YouTube videos of the BBC's animated The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, click here.
Friday, May 22, 2009
May 22: Julius Caesar Day 7
Today, students...
- Turned in paper corrections and late "Shakespeare's Legacy" projects
- Read over Act V questions
- Read Act V
- Answered Act V questions
- were given a major project assignment: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar: A Peep Show, Due June 2
Students should prepare for a quiz over Act V and Acts IV & V vocabulary on Wednesday, May 27.
Examples of "Peep Shows" can be found at this link.
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