December 23, 2016

Objective:  I can annotate and paraphrase Brutus’s soliloquy on pages 841-2.

BW:  View and reread Cassius’s soliloquy on p. 833.  Answer this question: What is Cassius’s real motivation to plot against Caesar?

Activities:

  1.  Share Out:  Random responses to the bellwork question.
  2. Promethean Board:  Teacher models annotating Brutus’s soliloquy by boxing unknowns with footnote numbers, defining them, and asking two questions.
  3. Think Pair/Share:  Students annotate Brutus’s soliloquy on p. 841-2 on their paraphrase worksheet.
  4. SSR:  Students add inferences to log.
  5. Reminder:  HW–Students will complete annotations and paraphrasing of Brutus’s soliloquy and answer the first three questions of the PSAT handout.