29 April, JC Day 2, Acts I & II

Today's Agenda:

1. Vocabulary
2. Paper Corrections
3. Finish Act I, begin Act II
4. Homework: vocabulary, study questions/worksheets

Students were given the following vocabulary assignment at the beginning of class. They should be prepared to make more webs as new vocabulary words are defined. These should be kept in their binders.

Students whose papers did not contain correct parenthetical citations or a works cited page were returned. These should be corrected and returned next class, May 1. If they are turned in later than May 1, points will be taken.

Students finished Act I and began reading Act II. We read through Act II, scene i. We will finish Act II next class.

27 April: Julius Caesar Day 1

Late papers, folders, PowerPoint handouts, and note cards were turned in.

Students identified qualities of
- a good leader
- a bad leader
- a good friend
- a bad friend

Practice with Shakespeare's Language: Paraphrasing

• Students read Hamlet's "Alas, Poor Yorick" speech, watched the scene from the Mel Gibson version of Hamlet (see below), watched the Animaniac's performance (see below), and paraphrased the speech.
• HOMEWORK: Students will read and paraphrased Puck's speech from the end of A Midsummer Night's Dream. They can watch the youtube video of the Animaniacs performing the speech.

Act I Vocabulary definitions:
1.Construe: interpret
2.Cogitations: thoughts
3.Accoutered: dressed for battle, in armor
4.Entreat: to ask earnestly; beg; implore
5.Fain: gladly
6.Mettle: courage, fortitude; quality of character; disposition
7.Prodigies: portentous sign or event; omens
8.Portentous: evil, ominous; foreshadowing something evil

Act I Notes (students filled in blanks on a handout)

• Anachronism – historically, something is out of chronological order (ex: in the play, a clock strikes. The play is set more than 2000 years ago when clocks didn’t exist)
• Lupercalia - A fertility festival in ancient Rome, celebrated on February 15 in honor of the pastoral god Lupercus.
  - Julius Caesar begins on this day.
  - But the next day is the Ides of March. This is why we don’t read the play as a history. Shakespeare squeezes months into days.
• Themes in Julius Caesar (copied into notes)
  -Friendship
  -Leadership
  -Betrayal
  -Ambition
  -Superstition & fate

Students received handouts for Act I. These included detailed study questions for all scened and separate handouts for each scene.

• Act I, Scene i handout: read the definition of "pun" and identify which of the 7 sentences at the bottom are puns.
• Basic background for scene i:
  **The play opens as Julius Caesar is returning to Rome after defeating Pompey.
  **He used to be friends with Pompey. They used to rule together with Crassus, the first triumvirate. ***First triumvirate = Caesar, Pompey, Crassus
  **Marullus and Flavius are tribunes (police officers). They are angry with the people for cheering for Caesar.

Students read Act I, scenes 1 and 2 aloud in class.

HOMEWORK: Complete worksheet pages 2 & 3 (for Act I, Scenes i & ii)
Define Act II vocabulary words using a dictionary or dictionary.com. Links to workd on dictionary.com can be found here: http://woodliffenglish10.blogspot.com/

Animaniacs A Midsummer Night's Dream

Mel Gibson's version of Hamlet Poor Yorick scene

Animaniacs Hamlet

23 April: Final Draft, Presentation, Introduce Shakespeare

Students turned in:

• Folders (3-prong, NOT binders), these included the revised and edited rough drafts
• Note cards to clear box

Students were given the opportunity to proofread their final drafts one last time. They should have made minor corrections with a pencil or black pen. Final drafts were then turned in.

Monday, April 27 is the last day Mrs. Woodliff will accept final drafts, rough drafts, folders, and note cards!

Students gave presentations. Presentations took longer than expected due to the lack of presentations submitted to the "Turn in Work Here" folder. Those who had their presentations on a flashdrive were able to give their presentation. Those who did not MUST turn in a copy of the presentation in class on Monday. AND they must save their presentation to the 3rd period folder in the "Turn in Work Here" folder. Make-up presentations will be given at a later date (to be announced).

INTRODUCING SHAKESPEARE

1. KWL Chart: Students created 2 KWL charts. 1 for William Shakespeare. The other for Julius Caesar. They filled in the K & L columns. (K - what you already know about the topic. L - what you want to learn about the topic)
2. Scavenger Hunt: Group Project. Students were given a handout with 44 words all related somehow to The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. They should divide up the words in their groups, find images/words/phrases that relate to the words, or they can draw their own. Bring these images/words to class on Monday, April 27. Extra credit for those who bring glue sticks! They will then start working together to create a collage of the images.
3. Julius Caesar Pre-Reading Vocabulary: Students were given a handout with pre-reading, Act I, and Act II vocabulary. They should use dictionary.com to define the pre-reading words.

HOMEWORK: Define 8 pre-reading vocabulary words. Find images for scavenger hunt.

21 April: Research Day 12, Preparing the Final Draft

Today students

1. Prepared the Final Draft. Specific instructions given on a handout can be viewed here
2. Submitted their final draft to http://www.turnitin.com/ (If students don't remember their username/password to turnitin.com, they need to save their paper in the "turnitin" folder in the "Turn in Work Here" folder on the y-drive. Mrs. Woodliff will then submit it to turnitin.com. Final drafts will be considered "incomplete" if they are not submitted to turnitin.com.)
3. Worked on PowerPoint Presentations

Due Thursday, April 23:

1. Final Draft
2. Folder, including all rough drafts, graded work, handouts
3. PowerPoint Presentation, including a handout of the presentation (6 slides per page)

Instructions for turning in/saving the PowerPoint:

April 17: Research Day 11, Editing

Students were to edit their revised rough draft today. The should have followed the instructions on the "editing instructions" handout. Those instructions can be found here: Editing Instructions Handout
These instructions include following more instructions for preparing a Works Cited page. Those instructions can be found here: Preparing the Works Cited Handout

After students finished editing and preparing the Works Cited page, they had the opportunity to print it and bring it to Mrs. Woodliff to be checked for accuracy.

Presentation Assignments were handed out. That handout and tips on how to make a good PowerPoint can be viewed here: Presentation Assignment

April 15, Research Day 10, Revision

Students were given the following instructions and information:

•Take 3 handouts (click on these 2 links to view these instructions: revision instructions, highlighting/finding instructions, and peer revision handout)
•Follow instructions carefully. Notice, you will be printing multiple drafts. Remember: the revised and edited drafts are a MAJOR GRADE!
•Peer Revision Handout: When revising Draft #1, if the paper only has 3 body paragraphs, skip #s 5 & 6. If it has 4 body paragraphs, skip #6

IMPORTANT DATES:
•Wednesday, April 15: Revise Rough Draft
•Friday, April 17: Edit Rough Draft; Presentation Assigned
•Tuesday, April 21: Prepare Final Draft; Work on Presentation
•Thursday, April 23: Final Draft Due; Give presentation

1 April: Research Day 9, Drafting the Paper

1. Students should be finished with their note cards (these were to be finished BEFORE coming to class).
2. Next, they organized the note cards into stacks according to topic. Each stack will make up much of one body paragraph. (3 stacks = 3 body paragraphs; 5 stacks = 5 body paragraphs). There should be no more than 5 body paragraphs. Information on "stray" cards may be used in the introduction or conclusion, or it might not be used at all.
3. After sorting note cards, students were to open the "Drafting the Paper" PowerPoint found on the y-drive. They should follow the instructions on the PowerPoint. First: view the entire slideshow. This gives them an idea of what they will be doing/how they will be writing the rough draft.
4. After viewing the PowerPoint, they should start writing their body paragraphs. After the first body paragraph was written, students were to get it checked. There should be parenthetical citations in these paragraphs.
5. After getting the first body paragraph checked, they should continue drafting the body, then the conclusion and introduction.
6. Students will be using this PowerPoint until the finish the rough draft.
7. The rough draft should be finished before spring break!

This PowerPoint will be followed on Friday's class, as well. Friday, students will have the opportunity to sit down with Mrs. Woodliff and see what revisions need to be made to their paper.