Monday, November 25, 2013

1. Finish Caesar

2. Discussion Regarding Theme

Tomorrow: We will be looking at characters in the play and beginning a writing assignment. Don't miss it!

Literary Terms Flashcards-

Here are some flash cards for terms that WILL appear on the Final Exam! Keep an eye out for more of these as we get closer!!!

Tuesday November 12

I created this for us to use. There is a link to the YouTube video I will be using for the play, a link to the SparkNotes for Julius Caesar (go here and read the summaries if you are getting confused), there are also a couple of student essays about whether or not Caesar is a tyrant.




Reminders!
Vocabulary List #7 goes home today as well. 
Literary Term Foldable is Due ToMoRoW!

Wednesday November 6, 2014

Reminders!!

Literary Terms Foldable Due next Wednesday! 
know if you are group A or B, each person must do the 10 words from the assigned list.
word, definition, example from CAESAR stuff, example from anywhere else in your world.

Revolution 380 Letter to Go home
Tracking page is how you will get a grade. YOU WILL BE TRACKING AND TURNING IT IN!! DO NOT LOSE IT!

CAESAR Movie thoughts? post onto our WALL.

4th period wall:

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5th period wall:

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Finish (?) movie

November 5, 2013

Watch 'Caesar'

Foldable reminder, due next Tuesday with all the lit terms definitions you have already completed.

Literary Terms Foldable Instructions

You will create a foldable for 10 Literary Terms according to the directions given in class. 

• you need three pieces of paper
• fold two pieces of paper along the vertical midline, leaving one paper with no folds
• attach the folded pages to each side of the non-folded page on the right side
• create 5 sections and draw lines across 
• cut the top piece of the folded page so it opens like a book

• on the left side, the literary tems
• on top of the folded side, the definition of the matching term

• inside the fold:
• on the left side one example from our reading (Julius Caesar or assigned/related reading)
• on the right side one example from anywhere (music, television, movies are good sources)

Group A- Last Names begin with letters A through I
Group B- Last names begin with letters J through Z

Group A:
allusion
aside irony
metaphor
tragic flaw
hyperbole
persuasion
soliloquy
tragedy
tragic hero

Group B:
metonymy
nemesis
poetic justice
dramatic irony
iambic pentameter
rhetorical devices
situational irony
thdme
verbal irony

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Julius Caesar Introduction

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Literary Terms

1. allusion

2. aside

3. blank verse

4. catastrophe

5. comedy

6. comic relief

7. irony

8. metaphor

9. metonymy

10. nemesis

11. poetic justice

12. simile

13. tragic flaw

14. characterization

15. conflict

16. dialogue

17. drama

18. dramatic irony

19. hyperbole

20. figurative language

21. iambic pentameter

22. imagery

23. persuasion

24. point of view

25. rhetoric

26. rhetorical devices

27. situational irony

28. soliloquy

29. theme

30. tragedy

31. tragic hero

32. verbal irony