Objective: The students will complete their first line by line translation.
1. WP Number 6
2. Act I Translation (100 points)
3. Outside Book. You should have it in your backpack daily and be reading it during extra time in class and office hours. Get it done so it will be out of the way be fore we start a class novel.
Objective: The students will read the rest of Act I-2.
1. WP Number 5
2. Notes
3. Read Act I Scene 2
4. Have a great 4 days off.
Objective: The students will read a bit more of JC.
Note: I was pretty happy with yesterday's reading and following along. I know Shakespeare is tough but with good, fun readers, it will be relaxing and help you in the future in AP.
1. Presentations up to Augury
2. Notes Act I Scene 2
3. Read and fill in the blanks on notes.
Objective: The students will read the first scene of JC.
1. Get a green lit book from the back.
2. WP Number
3. Go over vocab. Turn in.
4. Presentations
5. Act I Scene 1 Notes
6. Read Act I Scene 1
Objective: The students will know important vocab for Act I.
1. Presentations: Let's do four.
2. Act I Vocabulary.
Objective: The students will go schedule the classes for next year.
Sorry Zero Period, I should have told you to sleep in and come at 8 am.
1. Go to A310 to schedule next year's classes. Bring any papers that you need. Leave your bags in here, you will be coming back.
Have a great Super Bowl Weekend. Enjoy Bad Bunny (or Kid Rock) at half time.
Objective: The students will be introduced to important info about JC.
1. Get both handouts.
2. Go over the final test and how you will use your notes.
3. JC Timeline.
4. Presentations
Objective: The students will complete their presentations to turn in by tomorrow.
1. Finish your JC Presentation. Turn it in trough GC. I will grade it on there.
Make sure your Works Cited page is in the proper format. It should look like this:
“Julius Caesar Is Assassinated | History | Research Starters.” EBSCO, https://www.ebsco.com/research-
starters/history/julius-caesar-assassinated. Accessed 4 February 2026
Not this:
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/julius-caesar-assassinated
Objective: The students will start the Julius Caesar Presentation.
1. Turn in your completed "perfect" Research Paper. Put the name of your final editor on the cover below the header.
2. Discuss Presentation: Three slides:
3. Sign up for your topic.
4. Begin Research: You need two acceptable sources and you will write hand-written notes. You will use these notes to make your slides. You will turn these in on presentation day.
5. All presentation are due Thursday.
Objective: The students will do one final peer edit of the entire paper.
1. Get points for Parts 3 and 4: If you walked out on Friday, yes, it's due!
2. Peer edit one final time.
3. Fix any errors. Use the checklist on board.
4. Print it one last time for turn in tomorrow. 200 points!
Objective: The students will finish their research paper.
1. Notes: Part 4: The conclusion.
2. Look at my example.
3. Write it.
4. Works Cited Page: Use Google Docs to create a perfect page. See directions.
Objective: The students will work on a Julius Caesar info worksheet.
Tomorrow I will be back (unless some person decides to play Juror Number 8 from Twelve Angry Men).
1. Get the worksheet and the green lit book from the back.
2. Read pages 741-753 to answer the questions.
3. Turn in at the end of the period (finished or not. I want to see if you worked).
4. Put books away neatly.
Objective: The students will know important vocabulary for upcoming Drama Unit.
Note: We have to take a break from the Research Paper because I need to be here to discuss how to do the last part. I did look at several yesterday (Zach, Olivia, Daisy, Daniel, Ally, Emma, Quinton, Shiva, etc) who would get a ZERO on Part 3 if I was here today.
1. Get the two handouts.
2. Do what we always do on Vocab assignments. This is due at the end of the period if you are not working.
Drama Vocabulary
1. dialogue
2. aside
3. soliloquy
4. comedy
5. tragic flaw
6. props
7. tragic hero
8. tragedy
9. monologue
10. drama
Objective: The students will complete Part 3.
1. Get out your computer, your sources and notes.
2. Finish Part 3.
3. Print it for peer editing tomorrow.
4. See you Monday if not earlier. I appreciate you being awesome! Remember, the rest of the year will be great, or it could be very tough, depending on you this week.
Objective: The students will write Part 3.
1. Get out your computer, sources and your notes.
2. Write Part 3. I will have my computer at the courthouse and will monitor your progress (I can access all of your papers there. If you are not working, I will know. Period 3!!)
3. Are you reading your new outside book? You should be.
Objective: The students will work on Part 3.
Note: I will be out on Monday for Jury Selection. If I am picked, I will be out only one week.
Netflix Rec of the Week: His and Her's... Limited Series. You will never figure out the killer!
1. Exchange Part 2 with your partner. Edit it using the checklist on the board.
2. Remember that you are getting points for your editing, so if you miss things and say it's perfect, YOU THE EDITOR will lose points.
3. Correct all mistakes that they find.
4. Part 3: The 2025 Info. This is the most important part. You need to prove that your thing is the MOST IMPORTANT THING of last year.
Objective: The students will finish writing Part 2 of the Research Paper.
Note: No Jury Duty today, maybe tomorrow.
1. Open up computers and pull up your doc. Get out sources and sample/notes.
2. Let's look at two students' papers.
3. Finish Part 2. Due tomorrow printed for 50 points. Or Zero.
Objective: The students will begin writing Part 2.
Note: I may have Jury Duty tomorrow, so you will finish Part 2 for 50 points due on Thursday.
1. Part 2 Notes
2. Sample of Part 2 Discussion
3. Begin writing Part 2: Not a separate doc, just double space and start writing.
Objective: The students will peer edit the anecdotal intro.
1. Bring your intro up when called for 50 points.
2. Let's look at two on the big screen.
3. Exchange and peer edit. Put your name on the one that you edit. You will get a grade for editing, so if the person's paper sucks when I read it, YOU will lose points on your editing!
4. Make corrections as needed to intro.
5. Outside Book: Have you got one? Have you started it?
Objective: The students will write the intro to their research paper.
1. Get the sample intro and a blank sheet of paper for notes.
2. Notes
3. Sample discussion
4. Set up your essay using MLA
5. Write your intro. It is due tomorrow for 50 points OR NO POINTS!!! No late papers will get points.
Objective: The students will start reading their sources for their research papers.
1. Get out your three sources and two different colored highlighters and a pen.
2. Discuss what you are going to do with my examples from my paper.
3. Close read them, color coding the info into PAST INFO and 2025 INFO.
4. Be ready to write tomorrow with a charged laptop.
Objective: The students will find their newspaper or magazine source and read all sources to write tomorrow.
If you found an article on a source like Time.com, you can't be sure that it actually appeared in the magazine, so today you will look in a database that has those articles.
1. Open yesterday's assignment in GC. Let me see that you have 5 sources.
2. Use the following to find your magazine/newspaper article. Print it out and read it. If it is a good source, add that link to your source document.
3. Look at all of your sources, pick the best three (one must be your magazine or newspaper article that you just found), and go to the printer and print them out. You will have to close read them.
From Clever, find the Destiny icon and log in with your Google account (destiny.riversideunified.org)
ProQuest Database Platform - access research from 7 full databases.
Objective: The students will look into finding five people/groups/thing that they could write about.
1. Go over The Parable and turn in.
2. Complete the 2025 Person/Group/Event of the Year possible five.
Objective: The students will analyze a very short story about what a hero is.
1. Get your corrected vocabulary from the back.
2. Go over "The Man in the Water" handout and turn in.
3. WP Number 3
4. Parable Handout: Do all parts.
Objective: The students will analyze the essay from yesterday.
1. WP Number 2
2. Complete the handout for "Man in the Water."
Objective: The students will see an example of a person who would have been my "Person of the Year" if I was writing this research paper when I was a sophomore.
1. Go over vocabulary definitions. Turn in vocab.
2. WP Number 1 (yes we start over).
3. Discuss what you are going to be doing for the next three weeks.
4. Handout: Close read and answer questions.
5. Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIb8wfXGngA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5nTuEzMpzo
WP: The Man in the Water
The Man in the Water is an essay that Roger Rosenblatt wrote the week of the Air Florida Flight 90 crash in Washington DC. It was a trip that started out with 79 people on board, and it ended with only 5 survivors. “Washington, the city of form and regulations, turned chaotic.” (Rosenblatt). It was one of the first disasters that was caught on live television, and the hole world stopped to watch as rescuers tried to save the six people who were alive after the impact of the plane.
Objective: The students will know important vocabulary for this week's unit.
Sit anywhere. It is your chance this week to move seats from last semester. I will make a new seating chart on Friday after we get all of the class changes (new students here, old students gone).
Welcome back everyone! I missed seeing your smiling faces!
This week we begin our Research Paper Unit. We will read a few things, see a couple videos and do some research into who you think should be the Person/Group/Invention of the Year for 2025.
The final research paper will consist of four parts which we write in class over several days. I will teach one part, show you an example, then write. The next day that part will be due for peer editing. It is very important that you keep up with the work and don't fall behind, as each part is worth 50 points each day it's due. There will be NO POINTS FOR LATE WORK.
1. "Man in the Water" vocabulary. You know what to do.
Sit anywhere. It is your chance this week to move seats from last semester. I will make a new seating chart on Friday after we get all of the class changes (new students here, old students gone).
2. "Man in the Water" Vocabulary.
List for the Vocab. Exercise:
flailing (v)
abiding (adj)
pitted (v)
implacable (adj)
extravagant (adj)
synthesize (v)
analyze (v)
gist (n)
integrate (v)
citation (n) as in writing
