English 10 Do Now:5-5-14

ENGLISH 10 DO NOW:5-5-14

First: read everything on this slide Take out any notes you have from Act I. You

may have your study guide questions out. You may not have your textbook out.

Turn in your Do Nows. Name, date, period on every sheet, stapled to the US MAIL BOX.

We will take a paper version of the test, followed by the clicker version. I’ll explain when all desks are in quiz taking mode.

ENGLISH 10 TODAY

Write your name on the quiz. Circle the correct answer for each question. When done, raise hand and I will bring you a clicker.

Turn clicker on. Join room 200/ Wysocki Enter student ID number when prompted. It should have your name on the screen. Enter in the letter for each answer. When all clickers are done, yours will show

which questions you got wrong/right. Do now turn them off until I tell you.

1. What is Cassius’ motive to kill Caesar? What would motive Brutus to kill Caesar?ELITE:2. In what way does Caesar show his powers of perception? 3. In what way is he ‘blind’ to the danger Cassius poses?

Eng 10 DO NOW 5/6/14

BRUTUS’ LANGUAGE

L.O.To look closely at Brutus’ use of figurative language

SUCCESS TODAY MEANS 5/6/14

Students close read pages 1220-1224, noting their discovers about Brutus’ struggle in the garden and his concept of “an oath”

HW: Finish reading through page 1224, answer any related study guide questions.

ENGLISH 10 DO NOW 5/7/14 Put as many of the following quotes in your own

words as possible in 7 minutes.1. He would be crown'd:  How that might change

his nature, there's the question2. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder;

And that craves wary walking.3. Crown him that, And then, I grant, we put a sting

in him, That at his will he may do danger with.4. And therefore think him as a serpent's egg

Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous, And kill him in the shell.

1. Does a ‘climber-upper’ (remember the corporate ladder ex.) seem threatening by himself?

2. What happens when you link him with a poisonous serpent?

3. What is interesting about the fact that Brutus is walking in his orchard and thinking about breaking an oath? (Consider the biblical reference).

4. How might a person go about recognising the potential for tyranny (a serpent’s egg) and eliminate it before it becomes dangerous?

5. What are the risks of such an approach?

CHICKEN OR THE EGG?How does this

relate to Brutus’ dilemma?

TODAY’S GOALS

Learning objective:To examine the power dynamic of

the conspirators. To examine the role of the women in

the play and how they add to the dramatic impact.

Success means you record your observations using the study guide to keep you focused on the objective.

ENGLISH 10 DO NOW 5/8/14

What are some modern day superstitions? What do people today think is bad luck, what brings good luck?

ELITE: what physical action did Portia at the end of yesterday’s reading to prove she was “stronger than her sex”?

CAN YOU REMEMBER THE SIGNS?

TODAY’S LEARNING OBJECTIVE

To examine the role of the women in the play and how they add to the dramatic impact.

To examine the effect of superstition on Caesar

Success means you record your observations using the study guide to keep you focused on the objective.

1. What is Caesar’s initial reaction to Calphurnia’s plead not to attend the senate that day?

2. How does Calphurnia convince Caesar to do as she wishes?

3. What does Decius say which convinces Caesar that he must go to the senate that day in spite of Calphurnia’s warning? What does this reveal about Caesar?

ELITE: How is superstition linked to the social and historical context of the play? Consider the spiritual beliefs of Romans at this time.

TODAY’S LEARNING OBJECTIVE

To explore how suspense is being built in the play through the female characters, the soothsayer.

Success means you record your observations using the study guide to keep you focused on the objective.

THE MURDER SCENE

L.O.To be able to look at Caesar’s role before he dies

To explore Caesar’s role in the play

CAESAR’S CHARACTER

Look at the following vocabulary and make sure you are able to define each word

Are these characteristics a true reflection of Caesar’s character?

Do you disagree with any and can you find the evidence?

StubbornConstant PragmaticChangeable Steadfast ‘…I am constant as the

northern star…’ Julius Caesar

LIGHT IMAGERY – CAESAR’S SPEECH PAGE 113

Why is it important that light imagery is used by Caesar at this point in the play?

What does it reveal about his character?

LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING PICTURES:

Explore the pictures and think about how they have imagined the death of Caesar

Do you notice any patterns?

VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FvgP5hO99o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je0gTnheVe4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H-Kztt6WpM

PLENARY:

What role has Julius Caesar played in the play so far?

What surprises you about his early death considering the play is called ‘Julius Caesar’?

ANTONY’S REACTION

L.O.To be able to examine Antony’s role in the play and his immediate reaction

To take part in a drama task to explore Caesar’s assassination

ANTONY’S REACTION

ANTONY’S SPEECH Work in small groups to read out Antony’s

speech to show his anger at what has happened

What words would you focus on?

‘I am meek and gentle with these butchers…’

‘Domestic fury, and fierce civil strife shall cumber all

the parts of Italy…’

‘And dreadful objects so familiar, That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quartered with the hands of war; all pity choked…’

‘…And Caesar’s spirit ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell…’

PEEZE

Select one quotation and write a PEEZE paragraph to explore how Antony may feel at the death of his friend

1. Why is it important for the conspirators to get Antony out of the way?

2. What do Caesar’s last words tell us about his feelings for Brutus?

3. How is the action of lines 105-107 connected with Calphurnia?

4. Through which character does Shakespeare warn the audience that Antony could mean trouble for the conspirators?

5. What does Antony really think of the conspirators?

6. Do you think Octavius’ arrival signals good news or bad news of the conspirators? Why?

Elizabethan Audience’s Reaction to

Antony’s soliloquy?

Modern Audience’s

Response to Antony’s soliloquy?

Rhetorical Questions

…

Emotive Language

…

Opposites…

Repetition…

‘Who is here so base, that would be a bondman…?’

‘…I loved Rome more…’

‘Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves…’

‘…Who is here so base?’‘…Who is here so rude?’

Rhetorical Questions

…

Emotive Language

…

Opposites…

Repetition…

‘Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?’

‘My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar…’

‘The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones…’

‘And Brutus is an honourable man…’

Summarise last lesson in 18 words

OR

Unscramble the following anagrams they are key words for today’ s lesson and will help you think about

our learning objectives:

niimabto

launhoorbe

shapto

Get Thinking . . .

Venn Diagram: Brutus and Antony’s Speeches

1.How does Mark Antony feel about Caesar’s assassination?

2.What words does he use to express his feelings?

3.How do you think he would have delivered his speech? Consider his tone of voice, mood and attitude.

4.Note the order of the speech – do you think he might at any point: whisper, cry or yell?

5.What impact does the speech have on the crowd?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/drama/activities/still_image/still_image.shtml

A still image is a freeze-frame of a particularly dramatic moment in a performance. Using levels, posture, facial expressions and body language the actors can communicate a great deal to the audience about what has taken place without having to move or speak. See the example in this short clip.

CROSS-CUTTING is an dramatic technique most often

used to establish action occurring at the same time in two different locations. In a cross-cut, the audience’s focus will move away from one action to another action, which can suggest the simultaneity of these two actions. Suspense may be added by cross-cutting. It is built through the expectations that it creates and in the hopes that it will be explained with time. Cross-cutting also forms parallels; it illustrates a narrative action that happens in several places at approximately the same time.

1. Read lines 9-12. What is Brutus accusing Cassius of?

2. Read lines 18-28. What does this speech reveal to you about Brutus’s character and his motive for killing Caesar? (PEE)

3. Read lines 42-49. Put yourself in Cassius’s shoes. How might Brutus’s words here make you even more angry? (Think of a time when you were really angry and someone laughed at you for it. How did it make you feel?)

4. Read lines 65-83. Which famous fictional character can you compare Brutus to based upon this speech? Give reasons for your choice.

5. Read lines 100-107. Compare the ways in which an Elizabethan and a modern audience might react to this speech.

•Cassius’ past behaviour•Cassius’ present attitude•Portia’s death•Cassius’ accusations •the poet’s interruption•news of the death of 100 senators•news of the approaching armies•Caesar’s ghost

• a feeling of evil to come• an unfavourable omen • fateful: ominously prophetic

A balloon debate is a debate in which a number of speakers attempt to win the approval of an audience.

The audience is invited to imagine that the speakers are flying in a hot-air balloon which is sinking and that someone must be thrown out if everyone is not to die.

Each speaker has to make the case why they should not be thrown out of the balloon to save the remainder.

Who should go overboard:•Antony?•Cassius?•Brutus?

Using the ‘plot at a glance’ reference on page 228, complete a tension graph for the plot of ‘Julius Caesar’.