Daily Annoucements
I post here daily about what we accomplished in class each day, including handouts and links available to students on my CANVAS site.
Monday, 3/19
Day 36, Semester 2 During our independent reading time today, I also had students share the classroom laptops to upload their ACES portfolio. After reading, I collected their rubrics for this writing assignment (major assessment grade). Next, we started our mini-unit on selected excerpts from Shakespeare's tragedy, Julius Caesar. We are focusing on the efforts of three characters -- Cassius, Brutus, and Mark Antony -- to persuade others of the rightness of their cause. We watched a short summary video of the play itself (see below) and reviewed the first six vocabulary words on our list that are included in the first excerpt we will read. Then, we began to read and annotate the excerpt, following instructions on the handout to divide the passage into six "chunks." I asked them to write a paraphrase/summary of each chunk on a separate piece of paper. We had little time to work on this in class today, so they will continue tonight for homework, along with looking up the remaining definitions for our vocabulary list. Homework: Define words 7-15 on vocabulary list. Write a paraphrase/summary (1 short paragraph) for each of the remaining 5 "chunks" on the Act I, Scene 2 excerpt (Cassius and Brutus).
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