Week #32 April 30-May 4, 2012

Lesson: Julius Caesar project, poetry and scriptwriting
Vocabulary: alliteration, allusion, assonance, diction, onomatopoeia, end rhyme, form, metaphor, meter, narrator, rhyme, scheme, simile, metaphor, stanza, tone, rhythm, paradox, refrain, ballad, dramatic, lyric, couplet, quatrains, sonnet, parallelism


Activities

• Work on a sentence completion activity.
• Break into groups for the Julius Caesar project.
• Discuss thematic connections.

Week #31 April 23-27, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Writing: Script
Vocabulary: No new vocab

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes - due Tuesday or Wednesday, April 24 or 25

Activities
Monday - Discuss the last two sets of JC study questions.
Tuesday to Friday

• Get in groups and discuss JC project.
• TAKS testing

Week #30 April 16-20, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Writing: short responses with relevant quotes
Vocabulary:  insuppressive, contriver, envy, hew, contagion, rank, modesty, oration, censure, extenuated, reverence, mantle, rent, dint, vesture

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes taper to cautelous - due Tuesday, April 17
- SAT vocab notes insuppressive to vesture - due Tuesday, April 24

Activities
Monday-Friday

• Take a test on Act III and vocabulary.
• Continue reading play.
• Discuss and analyze actions and reactions of characters.
• Answer study questions.

Week #29 April 9-13, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Vocabulary: taper, adder, proof, augmented, exhalations, whet, interim, phantasma, insurrection, visage, affability, semblance, prick, palter, cautelous

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes - due Tuesday, April 10

Activities

• Take Test #7 covering Act II and vocabulary.
• Continue reading the play.
• Answer and discuss study questions.