Julius Caesar Literature Guide (Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned Teaching Guide) [Paperback]

Kristen Bowers (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 23, 2006

As a busy teacher, you don t have time to waste reinventing the wheel...you want to get down to the business of teaching! With Secondary Solutions Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Based teacher-written Literature Guides, you can address the English/Language Arts content standards while you teach the required core literature! Our practical, fully-reproducible Guides have everything for student and teacher in ONE Guide..no need to purchase both a student and teacher edition! No wasted white space, no repetitive worksheets with questions and answers that take up page after page, and no juvenile pictures that waste space and insult your students! Just high-quality, teacher-developed materials that help you get the most out of your time in the classroom.

Note: Common Core Alignment documentation available on Secondary Solutions website.

This Secondary Solutions teaching guide for Julius Caesar contains 88 pages of student coursework, quizzes, tests, and teacher guides aligned with tenth through twelfth grade English / Language Arts content standards.
Includes: Author Biography
Anticipation/Reaction Pre-Reading Activity
Notes on the Real Julius Caesar
Vocabulary List With and Without Definitions
Comprehension Checks for Each Act
Standards Focus Activities on Setting, Tone, and Mood, Character Motivations, Analysis of Rhetoric, Tragedy and the Tragic Hero, and more
Assessment Preparation Activities on Word Roots, Context Clues, Analogies, and Connotation
Quizzes for Every Act
Two Final Test Versions
Summary of the Play
Pre-Reading Ideas and Activities
Post-Reading Ideas and Activities
Essay/Writing Ideas and Prompts
Project Rubric
Response to Literature Rubric
Complete Answer Key

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I LOVE it so far! I had just gone to a literacy workshop and so many of the activities that were presented there I found in the lesson plan. This makes my life easier while getting the students exactly what they need. I can now focus more on helping them then creating quality worksheets/reading guides! --Secondary Solutions Review from customer Lauren

About the Author

Kristen Bowers is a former English teacher and the founder and President of Secondary Solutions. She has written over 15 books, including Literature Guides for Of Mice and Men, Brave New World, To Kill a Mockingbird, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and more, as well as two essay writing Guides: Essay Apprentice and Essay Architect. In 2005, Mrs. Bowers became frustrated and tired of writing her own worksheets, quizzes, tests, and activities to teach her students the required literature and the content standards on which her students were being tested at the district and state levels. At the time, resources and tools that were available for purchase were not up to her high standards of teaching, so she decided to create these materials herself.

Mrs. Bowers set to work to create one of the most comprehensive and innovative Literature Guide sets on the market. Joined by a middle school teacher with 21 years of secondary school experience, Secondary Solutions began, and has since matured into a specialized team of intermediate and secondary teachers who have developed a set of Literature and Writing Guides unsurpassed by all others.

Product Details

• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: Secondary Solutions (October 23, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977229572
• ISBN-13: 978-0977229574
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #148,744 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kristen Bowers (1974- ) is the founder and President of educational publishing company Secondary Solutions (www.4secondarysolutions.com). After becoming frustrated with the quality and content of teaching materials available to her when she was a new teacher in 2005, Mrs. Bowers decided to create them herself. Joined by a middle school teacher with 21 years of secondary school experience, Secondary Solutions began shortly thereafter, and has since matured into a specialized team of intermediate and secondary teachers who have developed a set of Literature and Writing Guides unsurpassed by all others.

Mrs. Bowers has written over 15 books, including Literature Guides for To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and Men, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, Bud Not Buddy, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Brave New World, and more. She has also written two essay writing guides: Essay Apprentice and Essay Architect.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely useful, January 11, 2009

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This review is from: Julius Caesar Literature Guide (Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned Teaching Guide) (Paperback)

This literature guide has several activities that I found very useful in the classroom. I liked that it was broken up by act providing specific activities and graphic organizers for each act corresponding to the events and specific literary elements present within that act. There are also great project ideas.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have, March 15, 2011

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This review is from: Julius Caesar Literature Guide (Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned Teaching Guide) (Paperback)

I teach High School English, all grades, in a private school and at the local homeschool co-op. In order to pull together a well-rounded set of lessons, I recently purchased several different study guides for Julius Caesar. This one stood out above them all. Its logical structure was easy to use and its scope deep enough to teach without overwhelming. Soon, I found that I was returning to the lessons in this book again and again - to the exclusion of all of the other study guides I purchased.

Each worksheet in this book gave my students such an in-depth look at, and understanding of, specific literary devices and techniques that everyone passed my notorious end-of-unit exam. Some only by one point, but EVERYONE passed.

Because of this, I have begun using Secondary Sources to the exclusion of all other brands in order to teach specific literary devices and techniques. I highly recommend it for your classroom, as well.