Description
Get your learners thinking! Our PRINT AND DIGITAL Julius Caesar Play Study Unit Plan has the activities and quizzes you need to teach a 7-week novel study — pre-reading questions, characters, vocabulary, final projects, non-fiction, and more. You’ll love the “print-and-go” activities in slideshow and .pdf, AND the same fun activities converted and optimized for digital learning (470+ pages, slides, & forms for all your print and digital teaching needs).
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ And don’t forget the easy-grade Google Forms!
Get your learners enjoying the rigor and creativity of our engaging activities built from best teaching practices and great for American Literature courses. We want to make your lesson plan journey easy, so you can focus on your expertise. This literature guide includes a curriculum map pacing guide that offers our day-by-day suggestion for how to plan out your weeks of fun activities.
Our pedagogy section explains the instructive idea behind the activity, gives ideas for implementation, and aligns the lesson plan to the standards. We’ve filmed some training videos on (1) how to assemble a Novel Analysis Packet that is unique to the academic needs of your learners and (2) how to effectively use our Quickwrite writing prompts.
To make your digital experience smooth, we include instructions (w/ screenshots!) of how to download and organize your activities in Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. We’ve added easy-gradeGoogle Forms versions of each activity that auto-corrects their responses using a suggested answer key (which you can adjust afterward or modify your answer key) and compiles grades into a spreadsheet with learners’ names and class periods to make things easier for you to grade all in one place (some types of questions aren’t able to auto-grade, though, because of the short-answer format).
TEXT: JULIUS CAESAR by William Shakespeare
LEVEL: 9th – 11th
TOTAL: 470+ combined slides/pages/forms in novel study unit
→ Based off the original Shakespearean text. Uses act/scene/line instead of page #.
→ Pacing Guide and Suggested Answer Keys included
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WHAT OTHER TEACHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS LITERATURE GUIDE RESOURCE
♥ Another great product from Created for Learning. I love how much I can adjust what I do and do not want to use. There is plenty to work with to supplement reading the play. This is definitely worth the price for all the wonderful materials I can use year after year.
♥ This was such a wonderful change of pace for my 9th and 10th graders! We used the handouts to create an interactive notebook. I used this product in conjunction with the No Fear Shakespeare version of the play so the students could have a side-by-side modern translation. Very effective.
♥ In this unit, there is plenty to pick and choose from among the different pieces. I like using the insults as an ice breaker before the quizzes and reading checks. Nothing like hurling an insult at a neighbor before sitting for an assessment.
♥ Thank you for a great resource. It has many great activities that break down the play very well 🙂
♥ Love this unit. I especially enjoyed using the quick writes and the vocabulary. Thanks!
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JULIUS CAESAR – LITERATURE PLAN CONTENTS
→ Suggested timeline of how a teacher could plan out the unit
→ Detailed explanations of the goals of each activity and how to conduct the activities
→ Meets Common Core Standards (CCSS novel unit). Easy TEKS conversion.
→ Easy to differentiate for different learning levels: Honors, 2nd language learners, and Sped
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ BEFORE READING
★ Pre-reading Bias Intro Activity
– Sparks lively discussion about students’ biases before reading
– 25 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1
★ Shakespearean Insults
– Students will have the opportunity to insult each other, Shakespeare style. Great for getting familiar with the old language
– 4 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9
★ Background Research Footnotes
– Footnote research to inform on various topics in play
– 40 slides & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9
★ Introduction to Shakespeare & Background
– Introduces students to the world and language of William Shakespeare and Romeo and Juliet
– 38 slides & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ DURING READING
★ Plot Chart Analyzer Diagram Arc
– analyze the 6 parts of the plot
– 9 pages & Google slides (suggested answer key included)
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Conflict Graphic Analyzer – 6 Types of Conflict
– analyze the 6 different types of conflict in stories
– 9 pages & Google slides (suggested answer key included)
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Characters Analyzer
– analyze the main characters using novel quotes
– 6-page analyzer
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3
★ What’s the Worst Crime?
– analyze various “crimes” of the characters are use ethics/morality to rank them from least to worst
– 2 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9
★ Journal – Quickwrite Writing Prompts
– 1/2 writing assignments to spur much deeper conversational thinking
– 54 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1
★ Figurative Language Instructional Slideshow
– We set out to make the most helpful, most compelling, most graphically attractive teaching resource for you to introduce your learners to all the various figurative language. This 140 slide & Google slides activity will help you introduce how every many you need to teach your level of learners.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
★ Figurative Language Activity
– analyze 57 figures of speech specific to the play
– 5-page bundle (3 parts)
– Similes vs. Metaphors
– Figurative Language Analysis
– Similes, Metaphors, Idioms, Hyperboles, Analogies, Personification,
Onomatopoeia, Puns, Allusion
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
– Suggested Answer keys provided
★ Vocabulary List and Quiz Assessment
– 80 vocabulary words from the play
– four 20-question lists & quizzes
– 30 pages, Google slides, & Google forms (suggested answer keys included)
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ AFTER READING
★ Essay and Speech
– 3 response to literature essay options for students to choose from; optional delivery of essay as a speech
– Includes essay topics and speech grading rubrics
– 17 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2,3
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1,9
– CCSS.ELA-SpeakingListening.SL.1,4,6
★ Film vs. Play Comparison
– compare & contrast the movie and play
– 4 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
Et tu will enjoy Julius Caesar! But beware the Ides of March!
