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?