The End of JC

Bellwork: We began our wonderful day of class by predicting what we thought was going to happen next with our groups. “As a table, come up with a prediction of what is going to happen to Cassius, Brutus, Antony, and Octavius by the end of the play.” Many of the responses were very violent and involved the death of at least one of the characters, including Justin G’s very creative conclusion involving Jesus and President Bush.

Class Activities:
* We finished reading Julius Caesar as a class. Different people were assigned different parts and we just read them aloud with small interruptions to discuss what was going on in a more comprehensible way.
*We concluded class with a six-question test over the entire story. All of the questions were short-answer questions and if you read the story you wouldn’t have a problem with the test.

Homework: Rough Draft #3 is due tomorrow. We are going to be revising it in class and are going to type it up in the computer lab.

Reminders: ONLY 2 MORE DAYS LEFT UNTIL OUR 10 DAY SPRING BREAK. EVERYONE STAY SAFE AND USE SUNSCREEN.

Recorded by: Christopher L.

Final Exam Part II

Bellwork: Finished the book commercials

Class Activities: Did the second part of the final exam.

Recorded by: Tonia M.

Final Exam Part 1

Today, we did the book commercials and if you did not go today, you
must go tomorrow. We also did the mid-term essay on the literature we've read this semester.

Recorded by Mary L.

Wrapping up the Quarter

Bellwork: Put up book critique posters on the poster rails. Make sure
your name is on it. Put journals on wooden chair at the front of the
room. Sign up for book commercial order (get a good time). Review
Antony homework with your group, make corrections because you may use this on
the quiz.

Class Activities:
* Go over literary terms in 3.2 (Antony's speech) (and turn them in)
*Finish acting out Act three
* Take Julius Caesar quiz, both parts (see homework)
* Turn in Antony homework

Homework: Finish white page of the Julius Caesar quiz. Complete book commercials for presentations.

Reminders: Don't forget to finish book commercials, be ready for your
presentation, and know when you are presenting.

Recorded by: Justin J

My apologies to parents who read this blog... our school filtering software decided to arbitrarily start blocking us from our own blog today so our posting took a little longer to get up than normal. We should be back to our regular 3:30 p.m. posting schedule by Monday. Thank you for your patience. -- Mrs. Gilbert

Researching Shakespeare's sources

Today in Mrs. Gilbert’s ASE class we went to the computer lab and did the lesson in the class website, www.cjgilbert.net under the ASE section for Julius Caesar. Click on link to Plutarch & Shakespeare, and follow the directions.

Recorded by Christina B.

Et tu, Brute?

Bellwork: Summarize the events that happened in 2.1 in your Caesar notes

Class Activities:
* 2.1 group acted out their skit
* 2.2 was Acted out
* 2.3 – 2.4 summaries (add to your Caesar notes)
* 3.1 was acted out as well as 3.2.1-69

Homework: Read 3.2.70 – 279 and fill out the “Antony’s Funeral Oration” worksheet

Recorded by: Matt E.

Conspiracies in Julius Caesar & Gladiator

Bellwork: Look through the scenes that we have already read through in Julius Caesar and find examples of at least five different literary devices. Also read over Brutus’ monologue in Act 2: Scene 1: Lines 10-35. Summarize what you read and try to find literary techniques. How does Brutus now feel about the conspirators and Caesar?

Class Activities:
* We began Act 2 by reading a large portion of Scene 1. We read from the beginning of Scene 1 to Line 251. Stop before you reach Portia.
*We watched segments of the movie Gladiator (with senators and the emperor). We looked for similarities between scenes in the movie and the play that we are reading.
* At the end of class we watched a little bit of Schoolhouse Rock in order to review grammar techniques. We got through nouns and verbs (you should know what they are!)

Homework: J Finish your novel!! We are probably going to have homework over the novel on Wednesday.

Reminders: Make sure that you finish your poster by Friday and all of your journal entries over your personal book that you were supposed to read.

Recorded by: Christopher L.

"Beware the Ides of March" - and turn in your poem/proverb

Bellwork: Get our your Poem or Book of Proverbs and your checklist. Try scoring yourself including a comment at the bottom about your strengths and weaknesses.

Class Activities:
* Finish 1.2 and 1.3 in Julius Caesar, write summaries on the scenes and take notes on the Great Chain of Being.
*Put three sticky notes on your poem/proverb book labeling and explaining where you used literary techniques.

Homework: Mrs. Gilbert forgot to assign it before the bell. J

Reminders: Should be done with your independent book by Wednesday 3/17

Recorded by: Tynesha G.



SCRIBE FOR FRIDAY, March 12th, 2004

Bellwork: Draw a picture of several stick figures to illustrate negative space and levels. Label those parts. Also add an explanation of what feelings go with one of the walks we practiced yesterday.

Class Activities:
*Sign out books. Note that each scene has a summary and most lines have explanations on the left-hand side of the pages so there is NO EXCUSE for not understanding at least some of the reading.
*Read 1.1 and write a summary of it.
*Sign up for speaking parts. Read and prepare for your scene. Write a summary of what your character is saying/doing in your scene under the bellwork and turn it in.

Homework: Poems/proverbs Final due Monday

Acting 101

Class Activities:
* We did acting all day to prepare for Julius Caesar. We learned about negative space, levels and leading centers.
* We visited the fire drill meeting place so that everyone knows where to check in during a fire drill.

Reminders: Don’t forget to bring your proverbs and poems tomorrow

Recorded by: Marcus E.

C/C Antigone & Prince of Egypt, revise poems/proverbs

Class Activities:
* Wrote C/C Paper between Antigone/Prince of Egypt
* We discussed the Poems or Proverbs that you picked to write.
* Add the definitions for the following words to your lit. terms worksheet: Onomatopoeia, Soliloquy, Aside, Metonymy, Pun, Synecdoche, and Tone. After you’ve done the definitions, you can turn in your blue book.

Homework: Bring your Journal, your coat and wear clothing you can move in for Tomorrow. J

Reminders: Bring in second copy of Praise Poem or Proverbs on Friday.

Recorded by: Chris E.

Begin Prince of Egypt

Bellwork: We picked up a sheet and it was about the Book Critique Grading Sheet. See Mrs. Gilbert for questions

Class Activities:
*Watch Prince of Egypt (we are watching the movie to do a C/C paper about Antigone and we also took notes on the movie, you can C/C on Antigone-Moses or Creon-Ramses
*Discuss poems/proverb project

Homework: Bring poem or proverbs-in-progress to class tomorrow

Recorded by: Danielle L.

Poems & Proverbs & Lit. Techniques

Bellwork: Read excerpts from 13th Olympians and notice literary techniques and how they make writing memorable.

Activity: Write a paragraph about what in your c/c essay is memorable writing. Turn in paragraph, final draft and process work.

Activity: Read Psalm 23 and Song of Solomon 2:3-9 and 4:1-7. Analyze literary techniques in use in these poems of praise. (You can read these at home using http://www.biblegateway.com)

Activity: Flip through the books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes and find a couple proverbs (pieces of advice) that you like. Note the literary techniques in use.

Project: Write a praise poem (to a friend, family member, mentor, etc.) OR a book of at least 5 proverbs written by you. The handout explaining this assignment is in the class crate and will be on our class website by Saturday. The final draft will be due Monday, Mar. 15th and the rough draft Tuesday or Wednesday next week.

Homework: Read your independant novel and begin work on your project.

End of Antigone, Beginning Bible stories

Finish Antigone Quiz Divide into discussion & essay groups. Complete via instructions.

Proofreading assignment: Read your R.D. #3 aloud and have someone else read the essay aloud to you and sign off on it.

Instant Expert With a partner, look up the assigned story and make a poster summarizing the key point/events. Due tomorrow at the bell.

FINAL DRAFTS DUE TOMORROW
Also staple all process work together (c/c chart, R.D. #1-3, practice intros)

Antigone Quiz & Pre-reading for tomorrow

Bellwork: As a class we reveiwed lines 18-23 in scene 5 to see what literary techniques were in use (allusion, alliteration, imagery, diction, parallelism, and vivid verbs)

Activity: Sing along to modern-day versions of the odes. Get copies from Antigone group.

Antigone Quiz (Note: essay/discussion section pushed back to tomorrow)

Pre-reading acitivity for next unit: Discussed how there are allusions to old Bible stories in three of the major religions; pointed out that we would be reading some of the stories to talk about the story aspect of it NOT the religion aspect.

Homework: Bring your R.D. #3 with you tomorrow.

Reminder Final draft due Friday.

End of Antigone, tips on c/c paper

Bellwork:
* Write down things that Creon and Haimon quoted in scene 3

Class Activities:
* Read scene 5 and Exodus from pretence literary book
* Paused in and out of the book to discuss main points from the play Antigone and add significant quotes for Creon and Teiresias
* We looked at papers of previous students papers: one an A and the other an E

Homework:
Study for Antigone quiz

Reminders:
Bring your C/c paper, with your Lit. Terms sheet and any notes from the Antigone play that you can use on the test.

(NOTE: Antigone is available online. You can read the Prologue yourself at http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone.html be aware that this is a slightly different translation that the one in our book. But it will still help you keep up with the plot!

Recorded by: Justin G

Introductions & Antigone scene 3 & literary terms

Bellwork: Get out the Perseus/Jason sample essay (to see a sample introduction) and the handout about standard essay form. Orally, at your table, define what a “humbling” experience is.

Class Activities:
* Write better intros to our compare/contrast paper (must do at least 2 for practice, see classmate to get notes)
* Antigone: Quiz (corrected in class and then turned in), read Scene 3, do Literary Terms worksheet due Wed. on terms: alliteration, diction, foreshadowing, imagery, personification, parallelism, repetition, monologue, connotation, denotation- write definition and find.

Homework: E.C. Read scene 4 and write summary of it.

Reminders: Listen to tape and bring revisions in progress to class tomorrow.

(NOTE: Antigone is available online. You can read the Prologue yourself at http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone.html Be aware that this is a slightly different translation that the one in our book. But it will still help you keep up with the plot!

Recorded by: Jaime H.

Antigone & turning in RD #2

Bellwork Pick up bookmark-assignments for independent novel from crate. Complete per instructions. Novel (and journal assignments) must be done by March 17th.

Activities:
*Add definitions of analogy, simile, metaphor, figurative language and hyperbole to lit. terms sheet.
*Read Scenes 1 & 2 of Antigone
*Take notes on characters (Antigone, Ismene, Creon & Sentry) about their job, personality and key quotes that really capture their point/personality. Finish notes for homework.
*Turn in rough draft #2 of c/c paper and audiocassette tape.

HOMEWORK: Read novel, finish notes for Antigone

Beginning Antigone

Bellwork: We had a journal writing today. It was about a woman who was a physic and was never wrong. If she told you that you would kill one of your parents and marry the other, what would you do?

Class Activities:
* We have new literature books. We split the class in half and read pages 308-309. Then we partnered up with the other side, explained what we read, and had an oral quiz over it.
*We also started to read the story of Antigone (The Prologue) and copied down the family tree.
*We signed up for reading parts of the Antigone story.

(NOTE: Antigone is available online. You can read the Prologue yourself at http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone.html Be aware that this is a slightly different translation that the one in our book. But it will still help you keep up with the plot!)

Homework: The second rough draft of your compare contrast paper, and an audiocassette tape.

Reminders: If you have to read tomorrow go over your lines.

Recorded by: Mesha F.

Revising c/c thesis & body paragraphs

Bellwork: Get two copies of the literary terms worksheet from the yellow folder and a copy of “Making sense” from the bookshelf.

Class Activities: On worksheet write down allusion, analogy, thesis, transitions and vivid verbs. Get Definition and example from a text. Get from friend.
* Revise thesis to be opinionated and interesting.
* Get sample c/c essay handout from class crate. Look at first paragraph and find the thesis. Also find other transitions from one story to the next. Try adding transitions to the 2nd body paragraph. Keep worksheet for tomorrow because we’ll add to it.
* Get a buddy look at each other’s body paragraphs and circle transitions/connections in them. If there are none, work on the paper so that there are some in the in each paragraph.

Homework: Have introduction and conclusion for your paper. Make adjustments to your body paragraphs to include vivid verbs and transitions . Find a novel by tomorrow that you can read over the next 3 weeks and enjoy reading.

Reminders:

Recorded by: Cameron M.

Email, Discussion Boards & Paragraphs...

Bellwork: Get two sheets and read them over. One sheet is a compare/contrast paper assignment. It tells deadlines and how to do certain things. The other paper is a grading sheet of the compare/contrast paper. Talk about it, went over it and through it.

Activities:

Went over guidelines for choosing a good thesis and turning the c/c chart into paragraphs; see Mrs. Gilbert for examples. Paragraphs-don’t want them to be boring. Wrote first paragraph of paper. Need to turn in the rest of the paragraphs tomorrow.

Got mythology test & teaching group grades

Learned to work on epals email and posted messages on nicenet. See www.cjgilbert.net under ASE Mythology for more information.

Recorded by Eden D.