1. Julius Caesar Project PHASE 1,2,3,4

2. PHASE 1

3. Individual HW assigned Mon. 15 Oct Read general summary and summary of Acts. Fill in charts with Location, Characters and Stage Directions (the chart says Main Events).

4. Each pair together read: 1.Read again the general summary of the plot of Julius Caesar. NOTEBOOK 2.Read the summary of the Act/s where your scenes are located. NOTEBOOK 3.Read the “Synopsis” and “Before You Read” for each scene your section involves. TEXTBOOK

5. Step 4 – 2 Pts. Step 5 – 2 Pts. Turn in typed or handwritten with clear penmanship: One sheet of paper for Step 4 and One sheet of paper for Step 5. Staple them together. Step 4: Title: Act and Scene. Location, characters and stage directions of the COMPLETE scenes your part involves, even if you have only a small part of the scene. Step 5: The list of the main events that you are going to include in your dialogue, based on the texbook Synopsis and Before You Read sections. Include STAGE DIRECTIONS, wherever possible. Skip two lines so that you can insert modifications for Step 7. Deadline for both: Friday 26th, before Homeroom.

6. Step 6 Skills you will be practicing: Comparing and selecting the most appropriate source. Tolerating frustration when changing a written text. Improving previous work. Deepen understanding of a text. Organizing a text. Read the advanced summaries for your part. INTERNET. Use at least two of these sources. Go to: http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/juliuscaesar/ http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-juliuscaesar/ http://www.enotes.com/julius-caesar http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/julius- caesar.html http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/julius- caesar.html http://www.novelguide.com/JuliusCaesar/index.html http://www.gradesaver.com/julius-caesar/study-guide/ Here are more: http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Study_Guides/ http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Study_Guides/

7. Step 7 – 3 Pts. Deadline: At the end of class on Mon. Oct. 29 Step 7 is an extended or enriched version of Step 5. Use the online summaries to enrich it.

8. Phase 2: Writing the script

9. 1.Type the script, according to format specs. (Next slide. Negative points.) 2.Upload the script in Chamilo. 3.Make sure the name of the document follows this model: jcaesar.4A.2012.GainzaLopez 4.Copy paste your script in Dropbox?? in Chamilo. Let me find out which tool allows this.

10. Specifications for Julius Caesar Dialogue Introduction: You will write a dialogue based on the part of Julius Caesar you are in charge of. Remember: The action is informed to the audience through the dialogue. There is no narration. There is Location, Characters and Stage Directions. Don’t worry about exactitude (Exactly like Shakespeare). Above all, do not paraphrase Shakespeare: BORING! Use your IMAGINATION when information is missing. Use teenage English. Do not try to be fancy. BORING! Avoid reading the original text by Shakespeare as much as possible. Of course, you may have to browse the original text (skim and scan) to find your way around, but we do not want reproductions of what the original text says. BORING! We want you to put yourselves in the playwright’s position: you have a story. Now, transform it into a dialogue. Make sure it covers the main events of your part. FORMAT SPECIFICATIONS – Length: One hundred lines at least. Invent! – Font: Arial 11. – Interlinear distance: 1.5 distance between lines. – Margins: 2.5 on each side. – This is about 2.5 pages of only dialogue. This does not include the titles and stage directions.

11. Phase 3: Rehearsing the play

12. Phase 4: Performing the play