28 May: Julius Caesar Test Instructions

Mrs. Woodliff was not in class today. The following instructions were given to students as a handout.
1. Turn completed KWL charts in to clear bin.
2. Put everything away.
3. Take The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Test Part 1. You may not use your book or notes on Part 1
4. Mark your answers on the scantron.
5. When you finish Part 1, turn in the test packet to its designated spot and take Part 2.
6. Part 2 is open-book, open-note.
7. Continue to mark your answers on the scantron.
8. When you finish Part 2, turn the scantron in to the clear bin (make sure your name is on it!) and Part 2 to its designated spot.
9. After you finish the test: Othello Vocabulary (These are the last vocabulary words of the year. They will be on your semester exam!)
a. Use a dictionary to define Othello vocabulary words (see back of this page)
b. Make a cinquain for 5 words. Cinquains should be original (This is not group work!) Illustrate each cinquain.
c. Complete the wordsearch for fun.
d. You are expected to work on this until the end of class. Turn in if finished. If not, it is due at the beginning of class on Monday, June 1!

Remember, your Peep Shows are due June 1.
Make-up research presentations will also be presented June 1.

JC Review Day - May 26

Today, students took a quiz over Act V, received graded Act III & IV quiz, took a few notes, completed the "L" column in the "KWL" charts filled out when we started the play, finished the video of Julius Caesar, and received a test review.

Notes: Tragedy, Tragic Hero, Tragic Flaw
• Tragedy: a story in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances.
• Tragic Hero: According to Aristotle, a tragic hero is “Man of high standard who falls from that high because of a flaw that has affected many”
– Modern tragic hero – Anakin Skywalker
• That flaw is called a tragic flaw.

KWL Chart is due Thursday, before the test!

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Test Review

Pre-Reading, Acts I – V Vocabulary.

Quotes from Julius Caesar: Who is the speaker? What/who is s/he talking about? What does the quote mean?
• Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot, Take thou what course thou wilt.
• Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.
• Beware the Ides of March!
• The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars, But in ourselves that we are underlings.
• This was the noblest Roman of them all.
• … You have some sick offense within your mind, Which by the right and virtue of my place I ought to know of…
• And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg Which hatched would as his kind grow mischievous, And kill him in the shell.
• Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
• It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
• If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayst live; If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.
• When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
• Et tu Brute

Characters to know for matching

• Soothsayer
• Metellus Cimber
• Cassius
• Cinna, the poet
• Decius
• Brutus
• Casca
• Calpurnia
• Antony
• Lepidus

Reading Comprehension (refer to Act questions and worksheets)

1. Tragic Hero; Tragic Flaw
2. Feast of Lupercal
3. foreshadowing
4. second triumvirate
5. Act I, Scene i – what happens and why
6. Act I, Scene ii – what troubling things have happened this day?
7. Why does Brutus join the conspiracy?
8. Why not attack Antony?
9. What is Caesar like in Act II, Scene ii?
10. Why doesn’t Calpurnia want Caesar to go to the Senate?
11. Why do the conspirators ask Caesar to pardon Publius Cimber?
12. What is Caesar’s attitude when he is at the Senate in Act III?
13. Why does Antony shake hands with the conspirators?
14. What does calling someone a “hart” (deer) mean?
15. In his funeral oration, how does Antony show that the conspirators were not honorable?
16. Act III, Scene iii – purpose?
17. Why does Antony point to Caesar’s wounds and identify the tears in his cloak?
18. What impression does Shakespeare give of the plebeians in Act III?
19. While reading Act IV, how do we know there is a change in Brutus and Cassius’s friendship?
20. How does Brutus react to Portia’s death?
21. After seeing the ghost, why does Brutus ask his servants why they cried out in their sleep?
22. What does Caesar’s ghost symbolize?
23. Before departing for battle, what do Brutus and Cassius say to each other?
24. What is Cassius’ fatal mistake?
25. How does Antony treat Brutus’ followers when they have been captured? (remember Lucilius?)
26. What is the main reason that Brutus does not want to be captured and taken back to Rome?
27. Why is this play considered a tragedy?
28. Themes (central ideas) of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. (What can be learned about life from this play?)
29. To what does Caesar compare himself before he is assassinated? Why does he make this comparison?
30. Why does Brutus let Antony speak at Caesar’s funeral?
31. What reason does Brutus give for killing Caesar?
32. What is Antony’s true purpose in delivering his funeral oration?
33. How does Antony prove Caesar wasn’t ambitious?
34. Difference between Brutus and Antony’s funeral orations?
35. Why do Brutus and Cassius argue in Act IV? What is the real reason Brutus is so upset?
36. What happens to Portia?
37. In Act V, what ominous sign does Cassius report has caused him to fear the coming battle?
38. What does Cassius say is avenged by his death?
39. Why did Pindarus stab Cassius?
40. How does Titinius respond to Cassius’ death?
41. Why did Antony say Brutus was the “noblest Roman of them all”?
42. What is Brutus’s tragic flaw?

To view YouTube videos of the BBC's animated The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, click here.

May 21, JC Day 6

Today, students...

1. turned in paper corrections
2. took a pop quiz over Acts III and IV
3. read Act V. Due to sophomoric behavior, the last page and a half was assigned to be read on their own and paraphrased.
4. answered Act V questions in packet:
   •Page 17: 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 86, 88
   •Page 18: #3
   •Page 19: #1, 2, 3, 4, 5
   •Page 20: #3, 4
5. were given the "Peep Show" project assignment, had the opportunity to form groups (if they want to work in groups), drew for acts, and brainstormed the scene they will choose. Examples of Washington Post contest peep shows can be found at this link.

Students can expect a quiz over Act V next class.

May 14, JC Day 5

1. Students turned in vocabulary and Shakespeare's Legacy project
2. Students finished Act III and answered packet questions

• Page 10: #6, 7, 8, 9
• Page 11
• Pages 12 & 13. All questions
  #4 – pages 394-396 in the book
  #5 – page 397 in the book
• Page 15: #1

3. Students were given Act IV-V vocabulary definitions and were instructed to find relationships between Act III-V vocabulary words (at least 5 pairs and 2 triads)

4. Students read Act IV and answered the following packet questions:
-page 14: #61, 62, 65, 71-75
-page 15: #2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8
-page 16: #2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

5. Grade sheets, research papers, rough drafts, and folders were returned. Corrections options/instructions were given. Corrections are due May 21! Any specific concerns/questions/complaints should be addressed after school! Many students still need to submit their paper to turnitin.com. Or they can turn it in to the "turnitin" folder in the Woodliff "Turn in Work Here" folder, and Mrs. Woodliff will submit it for them.

May 12: JC Day 4

1. Turn in Active Reading from Friday not completed in class.
2. Act III vocabulary assignment: make a cinquain for each of the following words: 1.strife 2.oration 3.coffers 4.mantle
3. Last week's test was returned.
4. We read Act III, Scenes 1 & 2.
5. Act III - V packet was handed out. Questions for Act III, Scenes 1 & 2 should be answered.

HOMEWORK:
1) Today’s vocabulary if not finished.
2a) Find a picture and write a sentence for the rest of Act III words.
or
2b) Make a cinquain or acrostic for each word.
3) Answer Act III, Scene 1 & 2 questions in packet.
4) “Shakespeare’s Legacy”

Act III, Scene 1 & 2 questions:

Act III, scene i.
In regard to Artemidorus’s request, how does Caesars’ nobility doom him?
What is Metellus Cimber’s petition to Caesars? What is Caesars’ response and why does he give this response?
What does Brutus instruct the conspirators to do before they go before the public? Why does he instruct them to do this?
What request does Anthony’s servant bring to Brutus? What is Brutus’s response?
Why does Cassius object to letting Anthony speak at Caesars funeral? What reassurance does Brutus give him?
What promise does Anthony give Brutus about his funeral speech?
After being left alone with Caesar's body, what does Anthony promise to do?

Act III scene ii.
What reason does Brutus give for murdering Caesar? What is the crowd’s reaction?
What final mistake does Brutus make in letting Anthony speak?
Why does Anthony read Caesar’s will to the people?
At the end of the scene, what are the fates of Brutus and Cassius?

Last minute Review & Practice

Acts I & II Additional Review -
Try answering questions on these quizzes that pertain to Acts I & II.

Gradesaver Quiz
SparkNotes Quiz
CliffsNotes Quiz

Don't forget about this video:


Here is another brief video of the conspirator's making plans at Brutus'.


Vocabulary Practice

1. The preacher made his way to the pulpit when it was time to give the sermon.


2. The people of Rome are fickle. One day they were on Pompey’s side; a few days later they were cheering for Caesar.


3. Calpurnia had a dream that Decius construed in a way get Caesar to go to the Capitol rather than stay home like Calpurnia wanted.


4. Cassius and Caesar were accoutered when they were swimming in the Tiber. Why would this make swimming difficult?


5. Calpurnia believed that her dream and the wicked occurrences of the night were portentous signs that foreshadowing something bad happening to her husband.


6. When creating a word web, all words in the web will appertain to each other.

CINQUAINS - line 1 is filled in with a vocabulary word. Line 5 should be filled in with a synonym of the vocabulary word or a word that sums up the word.
#1
cogitation
mental, thoughtful
thinking, pondering, wondering
it’s in my head
5_________________

#2
omen
scary, evil
warning, foreshadowing, threatening
sign of the future
5_________________

#3
affability
friendly, well-liked
giving, caring, understanding
he’s easy to approach
5_________________
#4
augurer
wise, psychic
interpreting, construing, knowing
we found no heart
5_________________

#5
emulation
jealous, green-eyed
coveting, wanting, desiring
wanting to be him
5_________________

#6
ambition
determined, driven
striving, motivating, obsessing
the ladder of success
5_________________

May 4, Julius Caesar Review Work

The following is a copy of instructions that will be given to students on Monday, May 4.

1. Check your folders if you were absent Thursday or if you want any work that might be graded. (Papers are not graded yet; you will get them back next week.)


2. Watch video of Julius Caesar Acts I & II.


3. Vocabulary Practice. Complete the cinquains and sentences, and match vocabulary words with pictures that illustrate/represent them. (Keep these and check the blog for hints or answers.)


4. Paraphrasing Practice. Work in pairs to paraphrase, in Animaniac fashion, these lines from Brutus and Cassius. Use the modern version (there are 2 copies at the back of the packet, one for each of you) when trying to write Dot’s paraphrases. See examples on the board. (and an example of one paraphrase below)


5. Act II Sequencing This is page 8 in the Act II packet (the last page). Work with your partner to put these in order and answer the questions when applicable.


6. HOMEWORK: STUDY FOR THE TEST. If you lost your review, check the “Extras 10” folder in the crate!