Title of Unit: Understanding Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
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Duration: March 28- May 21
(Monday and Thursday,
total of 16 lessons)
1. Objective(s) of the unit:
Students will thoroughly and carefully read the play, coming to a good understanding of the themes, as well as the literary techniques used by Shakespeare.
2. How the students’ work in the unit will be assessed:
a. At the end of each day's lesson, students will be given a brief quiz which will assess their level of understanding of the specific objective for that lesson
b. Essays will be assigned on a regular basis, requiring the students to discuss various themes and literary techniques found in the play.
3. Daily lesson objectives and activities:
Lesson 1 objective: students will learn about Shakespeare's times, and about how plays were written and performed
Lessons 2 through 24 objectives: in each lesson, students will closely examine selected passages in a single scene, and will come to an understanding of the themes and literary techniques demonstrated in each of the passages.
4. Homework assignments: memorization
Every Monday and Wednesday night, students will be required to memorize 4-6 lines from the play, and a quiz will be given the next day.
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Title of Unit: Using sentence openers, inversions, branching sentences,
and parallelism to lengthen and enhance sentences.
and parallelism to lengthen and enhance sentences.
Duration: March 28 – May 21 (Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 16 lessons)
1. Objective(s) of the unit:
Students will understand and employ the above writing tools.
2. How the students’ work will be assessed:
On Tuesday, one or more of the above terms will be explained and practiced, and the following day the students will demonstrate the ability to use the tool in an essay.
3. Daily lesson objectives and activities: See #2, above.
