After we finish Act III of Julius Caesar, I pose the following question to my students: The play is titled Julius Caesar, so what do you think about the fact that Caesar himself has been killed off, and yet the play still has two more acts left? Sometimes, we discuss it a bit before I […]
teaching Julius Caesar
Story Impressions for Julius Caesar
Earlier this month, I mentioned that I begin my unit on Julius Caesar with several pre-reading activities, due in part to the difficult nature of the text. Specifically, I shared a reading strategy called Phony Document and demonstrated how I use it along with excerpts from Plutarch’s biography of Julius Caesar before we begin the […]
Phony Document Reading Strategy with Julius Caesar
One of the reading strategies I really enjoy using is called Phony Document, which I’ve taken from the book Content Area Literacy: An Integrated Approach by Thomas W. Bean, John E. Readence, and R. Scott Baldwin. In a nutshell, the teacher creates a document that sounds highly credible and authentic, but it’s entirely made up. […]