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Wrote. Please see our writing prompt below. Got back the unit quiz/test from yesterday. Never fear, citizens! Mrs. Hopkins has deleted it from the gradebook. Rather than grading it on the curve, I decided to just throw it out. Come see me if you have questions or concerns. We turned in our outlines online if we hadn't done so already, and then we had work time on the rough draft of the Caesar essay.
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Wrote (for a whole ten minutes!). Please see our writing prompt below. Took a unit test on Julius Caesar. It was 25 questions, all multiple-choice. Please come see Mrs. Hopkins ASAP if you were absent today. Went over the expectations for the Julius Caesar essay: EACH FIVE COMPONENTS MUST BE COMPLETED IN SUCCESSION OR YOU WILL RECEIVE A ZERO ON THE FINAL. You MUST complete the brainstorm, the outline, rought draft, peer edit and final draft. Only turning in a final does not earn you a grade. By tomorrow, please complete an outline for your chosen prompt. An outline is not you writing an entire essay and then labeling the parts. This is the middle step between brainstorming and writing your first draft. Your outline will be due before class tomorrow on Turnitin.com. Mrs. Hopkins is still absent today. Please find all instructions for today here on the website. Please begin class with our daily writing. Our prompt is below. Once again, you will only be writing for SIX MINUTES today. Here is a link to the handy online timer Mrs. Hopkins uses: http://www.online-stopwatch.com/countdown-timer/ After writing time is over, please quickly grab Chromebooks. You will begin the first stages of writing an essay on Julius Caesar today. You can view the assignment below. The five stages required for this assignment are brainstorm, outline, first draft, peer edit, and final draft. There are 8 possible prompts for your essay. You will ultimately choose one to write about. Today, however, you will be focusing on the first stage: brainstorm. Create a new document, titled “JC Brainstorm.” Please brainstorm answers to all 8 prompts. Point to places in the text that would support your viewpoint. Please note that the first 6 options require you to argue for or against the stated position, whereas the last two are open-ended and ask you to formulate your own opinion. At the end of your brainstorm, please indicate which prompt you will be focusing on for your formal essay. Your brainstorm for ALL 8 prompts is due to Turnitin.com before class begins tomorrow.
Mrs. Hopkins is absent today. Keely is sick. Oh no!
Please find all instructions for today here on the website. This might be a little bit difficult today since we need to finish reading Julius Caesar. We are on Act V, and are used to listening to the audiobook (which we may or may not have access to today). Please begin class with our daily writing. Our prompt is below. You will only be writing for SIX MINUTES today. Here is a link to the handy online timer Mrs. Hopkins uses: http://www.online-stopwatch.com/countdown-timer/ After writing time is over, please quickly grab textbooks and turn to Act V. There are five scenes, but they are all very short. There are two handouts in yellow folders on Mrs. Hopkins’ side desk. They should be clearly labeled “Act 5, scenes 1-3” (It is titled “Preparing for Battle”), and “Act 5, scenes 4 & 5” (titled “The closing Scenes of Julius Caesar/The Tragic Hero of Julius Caesar). Please get these passed out to everyone. (NOTE: please keep your handouts from Friday.) Normally we would listen to the audiobook on Mrs. Hopkins’ computer. This isn’t possible today, so we are going to listen to an online version, which, unfortunately, features actors we are unfamiliar with. This is the link for the audio of Act 5 (total time is 23:19): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-pmk73fDbQ Before you read, here are short summaries of the five scenes:
Please listen to the audio/read along in the textbook. It should go quickly. Try to work on the handouts as you read. If you are unable to finish during reading time, there should be plenty of time afterward for you to work in class. Please be respectful to whomever is with you today, and work quietly and diligently. Handouts will become homework if you do not finish them today. (I’m sorry, I don’t have access to the digital versions at home, so if you are absent today, please check in with me about getting these.) I will be checking email periodically from home today, so if you have questions, PLEASE DON’T HESITATE TO CONTACT ME! I hope to be back tomorrow. Today we...
Wrote. Please see below for our writing prompt. Finished reading/listening to Act 4, Scene 3, and worked on our handout. It is due Monday. We should finish up the play on Monday. Today we... Wrote. Please see below for our writing prompt. Corrected/scored our handout/worksheet from yesterday, on the aftermath of the assassination. We then turned this in to Mrs. Hopkins. Had a synopsis of Act 4, Scene 3, and then read/listened to it in class.
Today we... Wrote. Please see our writing prompt below. We read/listened to Act 4, scenes 1 & 2 and did the following handout:
Today we...
Wrote. Please see our writing prompt below. Reviewed Act III and make corrections to our "Death on the Ides of March" (purple) handout and "Brutus's Funeral Oration/Turning the Tide: Mark Antony's Speech" (hot pink) handout. We then turned the handouts in (worth a lot of points!). Today we...
Wrote. Please see below for our writing prompt. We finished reading/listening to Act III, Scene 2, and then immediately read/listened to Scene 3. We worked on finishing our pink handout on the funeral orations, which we should finish for homework if we don't finish it in class. Today we...
Wrote. Please see below for our writing prompt. Got back a lot of papers from Mrs. Hopkins, updated some others, and turned in all of our missing/late/revision work. Then, we read an article about our beloved Julius Caesar, and how current research suggests he may not actually have epilepsy: Julius Caesar may have suffered mini-strokes, say doctors. NO HOMEWORK THIS WEEKEND! |
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