Trials and Tragedy

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Unit 7

• Trials and Tragedy

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TAKS Update

• Spring 2003 Performance Standards

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Unit focus

• Shakespeare

• Julius Caesar

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How do you make Shakespeare special?
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Features

• 3 Reading options
• Wall plot line
• Literary terms word wall
• Graphic organizers

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Plot Line and Word Wall

• Use a blank sheet of paper to design your own
  plot line and word wall.

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Graphic Organizers

• Organizers in this unit are designed for general
  use.
• How many ways can you use the organizers included
  in the packet?

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Graphic Organizers

• Create an original graphic organizer of your own
  and explain how it can be used.
• Tools for Thought by Jim Burke

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Response logs

• Consider having students make a special book for
  Julius Caesar.
• What things could be included in the log?

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Unit Assessment

• Response logs
• Writing task
• Exam
• One Pager
• Evaluation rubrics
• Group presentations

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Looking at the Lessons
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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 1
• Introduction to Shakespeare
• Shakespeares World
• Main idea
• Create learning logs

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 2
• Literary terms
• Prereading strategies
• Begin reading

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 3
• Subject-verb agreement
• Graphic organizers

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 4
• Subject-verb agreement
• Oral presentation evaluations

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 5
• Rhetorical Devices
• Focus on parallelism

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 6
• Fragments and run-ons
• Prewriting

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 7
• Commas
• Drafting

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 8
• Writing workshop

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 9
• One-Pager workshop

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 10
• Unit Exam
• Share One-Pagers