1. Julius Caesar
Eng 10

2. Caesar Day 1: Sit with your Sticker Groups
SWBAT: understand their Caesar vocabulary.
Vocab
Reflection: Which word was the easiest and which words were the hardest to complete today? Why?

3. Caesar Vocab Beseech Servile Construe Portent Spurn Extenuate Mirth
Vaunt
Apparition
Misconstrue

4. Caesar Day 2: Sit with your Color Groups
SWBAT: understand Shakespeare’s world by analyzing and interpreting a biographical article.
“Shakespeare’s World” pg
20 facts—Must cover all of the article.
Reflection Prompt: What are you most excited about for this unit? What are you least excited about.

5. Caesar Day 3: Sit with your Color Groups
SWBAT: understand ethos, pathos, and logos.
Handout
Videos/advertisements
Propaganda techniques
Reflection: Where else have you seen ethos, pathos, logos, or propaganda?
Summary

6. Logos
Pathos
Ethos

7. Logos, Pathos, Ethos (Venn diagram)
For each of the following links, decide in your table group which of the three logical appeals is most likely represented. Put your reasoning in the Venn Diagram.
vit.html
cont.html

8. Propaganda Techniques
With your table groups, jigsaw the terms on your handout.

9. Caesar Day : Sit with your Number Groups
SWBAT demonstrate their understanding of ethos, logos, and pathos
Poster activity
Reflection: What did you learn about ads and their use of persuasive techniques and propaganda?
Summary

10. Logos, Pathos, Ethos + Propaganda Activity
You will be looking through magazines to find pictures using Logos, Pathos, and Ethos. Cut those pictures out and create a collage labeling which propaganda technique each of your examples used.
Be sure that you support your reasons with specific details. i.e.: This ad uses ethos because it’s a doctor claiming that Tylenol is a good pain remover. Doctors are experts when it comes to medicines.

11. Caesar Day 5: Sit with your Sticker Groups
SWBAT: understand subtext, stress, and inflection.
Notes
Acting activity
Reflection prompt: What did you notice about the importance of subtext, stress, and inflection from participating in this activity?
Summary

12. How do we read Shakespeare?
Subtext: the thoughts we imagine characters to have as they speak certain lines.
Their motivation
Their emotions behind the words
Subtext tools:
Stress: emphasis placed on a word when it is pronounced
Inflection: the way the voice goes up or down when a word is pronounced
Pause: break in reading for emphasis
Non-verbal communication: gestures, posture, the presence or absence of eye contact

13. Acting Activity
You will be working in pairs for this activity. Your job as a pair is to act out a scene using the roles that you have randomly drawn. Make sure that your speaking and acting reflects the assigned scenario. It’s a secret, so make sure that you don’t tell your classmates who you are pretending to be.

14. Lines for your scenario:
Person 1: You’re late. Person 2: I know. I couldn’t help it. Person 1: I understand. Person 2: I thought you would. Person 1: I have something to give you. Person 2: Really? Person 1: Yes, this.

15. Caesar Day 6: Sit with your Color Groups
SWBAT: read and interpret Caesar
Journal
Reflection: Why do you think that the soothsayer is an important character?
Choose parts/read/take notes
Summary

16. We should NEVER believe in omens or be superstitious.
Journal 1
We should NEVER believe in omens or be superstitious.

17. Act I Scene i Character 1st 3rd 4th 5th 7th Flavius First Commoner
Marullus
2nd Commoner

18. Act I Scene ii Character 1st 3rd 4th 5th 7th Caesar Casca Calpurnia
Antony
Soothsayer
Brutus
Cassius

19. Act I Scene iii Character 1st 3rd 4th 5th 7th Cicero Casca Cassius
Cinna

20. Caesar Day 7: Sit with your Number Groups
SWBAT: Read and interpret Caesar
Finish Act I—Notes too
Reflection: How do you feel about Cassius? Do you think that he is trustworthy or has Rome’s best interests at heart? Why/Not?
Summary

21. Caesar Day 8: Sit in your Sticker Groups
SWBAT: understand Caesar and the importance of suspense.
Finish Act I
Suspense Chart
Reflection: Do you think that Caesar is becoming a tyrant? Is it the people’s responsibility to remove dictators from power?
Summary

22. Suspense Chart
Suspense

23. Caesar Day 9: Sit with your Color Groups
SWBAT: Understand the importance of moral values.
Vocab 2
Reflection: What do you think will happen in Act II of Caesar?
Summary

24. Caesar Vocab 2 Ascend Augmented Affability Imminent Confounded Mutiny
Unassailable
Abridged
Prostrate
Vouchsafe
Malice

25. Caesar day 10: Sit with your Color Groups
SWBAT read and interpret Caesar
Journal
Choose parts Act II
Act II/Notes
Reflection: How do you feel about Brutus? Do you think that he is being tricked? How do you think he will act upon his moral dilemma?
Summary

26. Journal 2
During a war, following our moral values are not as important as following orders.

27. Act II Scene i Character 1st 3rd 4th 5th 7th Brutus Lucius Cassius
Decius
Casca
Metellus
Trebonis
Cinna
Portia
Caius

28. Act II Scene ii Character 1st 3rd 4th 5th 7th Caesar Servant Calpurnia
Decius
Publius
Brutus
Antony
Trebonius

29. Act II Scene iii
Character
1st
3rd
4th
5th
7th
Artemidorus

30. Act II Scene iv
Character
1st
3rd
4th
5th
7th
Portia
Lucius
Soothsayer

31. Caesar Day 11: Sit with your Number Groups
SWBAT: read and interpret Caesar.
Act II/Notes
Reflection: What is the difference between Brutus’ relationship with Portia and Caesar’s relationship with Calpurnia? Who loves whom more?
Summary

32. Caesar Day 12: Sit with your Sticker Groups
SWBAT: understand the different sides of Caesar.
Foldable
Discussion
Reflection: What did you learn about personal interpretation? Can Caesar be both bad and good at the same time?
Summary

33. Caesar Day 13: Sit with your Number Groups
SWBAT: read and interpret Caesar
Journal
Act III Parts/Read/Notes
Reflection: What do you think Mark Antony’s role will be in the future?
Summary

34. Journal 3
We should not consider our personal feelings when making important decisions.

35. Act III Scene i Character 1st 3rd 4th 5th 7th Caesar Soothsayer
Artemidorus
Popilius/Publius
Brutus
Cassius
Decius
Metellus
Cinna
Casca
Trebonis
Servant
Antony

36. Act III scene ii Character 1st 3rd 4th 5th 7th Brutus First Citizen
Second Citizen
Third Citizen
Fourth Citizen
Antony
Servant

37. Act III scene iii Character 1st 3rd 4th 5th 7th Cinna First Citizen
Second Citizen
Third Citizen
Fourth Citizen

38. Caesar Day 14: Sit with your Sticker Groups
SWBAT: Compare and Contrast Brutus’ and Mark Antony’s speeches to the Roman people utilizing their knowledge of Logos, Pathos, and Ethos.
Act III
Reflection: Which of the three persuasive devices was the most successful?
Summary

39. Caesar Day 15: Sit with your Color Groups
SWBAT: Apply their knowledge of Logos, Pathos, and Ethos.
Finish Act III
Logos, Pathos, Ethos Chart
Reflection: Who do you think is going to be Rome’s new leader? Do you think that Brutus is regretting his decision to kill Caesar?
Summary

40. Logos Pathos Ethos Logos-Pathos-Ethos
Pull specific quotes that demonstrate how each of these are used, and by whom. Be sure you explain why and how each device was used.
Logos
Pathos
Ethos

41. Caesar Day 16: Sit with your Color Groups
SWBAT: read and interpret Caesar.
Journal
Act IV parts/read/notes
Reflection: Do you think it’s appropriate that Cassius and Brutus feel the way they do about each other? Why/Not?
Summary

42. It is never right to kill another person.
Journal 4
It is never right to kill another person.

43. Act IV scene i
Character
1st
3rd
4th
5th
7th
Antony
Octavius
Lepidus

44. Act IV scene ii Character 1st 3rd 4th 5th 7th Brutus Lucilius Pindarus
Cassius
First Soldier
Second Soldier
Third Soldier

45. Act IV scene iii Character 1st 3rd 4th 5th 7th Cassius Brutus Poet
Messala
Titinius
Varro
Ghost of Caesar
Lucius
Claudius

46. Caesar Day 17: Sit with your Number Groups
SWBAT: Read and understand Caesar.
Read/Note Act IV
Propaganda handout activity
Reflection: What do you think about Brutus’ fate? How is he a tragic hero?
Summary

47. Propaganda Techniques (left and right side if needed) You need quotes and explanation to support each of these.
Bandwagon
Euphemism
Fear
Glittering Generalities
Logical Fallacies
Name Calling
Plain Folks
Reward
Testimonial
Transfer

48. Caesar Day 18: Sit with your Color Groups
SWBAT: read and interpret Caesar
Journal
Act V Parts/Read/Notes
Reflection: What do you think about the tributes that Brutus gives to Cassius and that Mark Antony gives to Brutus. Why do they call themselves “the last of the Romans” and the “noblest Roman of all”? Do you believe that they deserve such an honor?
Summary

49. People who are too trusting make terrible leaders.
Journal 5
People who are too trusting make terrible leaders.

50. Act V scene i Character 1st 3rd 4th 5th 7th Octavius Antony Messenger
Brutus
Cassius
Lucilius
Messala

51. Act V scene ii
Character
1st
3rd
4th
5th
7th
Brutus

52. Act V scene iii Character 1st 3rd 4th 5th 7th Cassius Titinius
Pindarus
Messala
Brutus
Cato

53. Act V scene iv Character 1st 3rd 4th 5th 7th Brutus Cato Lucilius
First Soldier
Second Soldier
Antony

54. Act V scene v Character 1st 3rd 4th 5th 7th Brutus Clitus Dardanius
Volumnius
Strato
Octavius
Messala
Lucilius
Antony

55. Caesar Day 19: Sit with your Number Groups
SWBAT: Understand the difference between stoicism and epicureanism.
Finish Caesar
Stoicism
Epicureanism
Foldable activity
Reflection: How could you apply stoicism and epicureanism to a modern leader?
Summary

56. Stoicism A philosophy that began with Zeno the Greek
Arose in the Hellenistic period (the period after the conquests of Alexander the Great)
Zeno eventually founded his own philosophical school in 300 BCE.  He taught his students in a stoa (portico) in Athens=Stoicism

57. Characteristics: A substitute for religion
Believed the supreme end of life is virtue
Virtue must seek expression in action
The performance of duty is the result of wisdom
Joy and grief should not be outwardly shown
The wise man, while not without feeling, must be without passion, and in performance of duty, he must neither spare himself nor others.

58. Epicurean philosophy
Epicurus was one of the major philosophers in the Hellenistic period.

59. Characteristics:
Rejected Plato’s idea of an immaterial soul—no after-life
Believed that the gods have no influence on our lives
The point of all one's actions was to attain pleasure (conceived of as tranquility) for oneself
This could be done by limiting one's desires and by banishing the fear of the gods and of death
Believed fear is the greatest evil

60. Activity
Compare and contrast Brutus and Cassius using the philosophies discussed today. Pull specific lines from Act V to support that those characters fit into those philosophies. Then choose two world leaders or celebrities that also fit into those philosophies and use the lines that you chose to create a conversation comic strip between those leaders/celebrities. Use the foldable as a guide.

61. Day 20: Sit in your Color Groups
SWBAT: compose an essay.
Prompt discussion
GO work time
Reflection: What are you most excited to write about for this essay?
Summary

62. Topic or Main Idea
1st Idea or Reason
2nd Idea or Reason
3rd Idea or Reason
Hook (Attention Getter) plus 3 or more sentences to explain hook and connect to the idea of your essay
Thesis: Main idea plus three reasons (Don’t forget to introduce book and author)

63. Topic Sentence with Transition (Ex: The first reason why…… is because ….)
Introduce and explain topic of paragraph with general examples from the book
Quote with signal phrase before (Susie said, “……” (cite 22).) and citation afterward
Explain what the quote means
Analyze (This is important because……)
Connect back to thesis and paragraph topic

64. Conclusion topic sentence (sum up the main idea that the reader should now understand)
Remind the reader about the three points that you already discussed. Do not repeat or copy them
Frame your paper: go back to your hook and connect this sentence to it using the ideas from your paper as well. EX: if you had an interesting fact as your hook or a profound statement, explain again why that fact or statement applied to your paper and how it was important.

65. Day 21-22: Sit in your Number Groups
SWBAT: Compose their JC essay.
Essay Work Time
Reflection: What is the hardest part about writing about Shakespeare?
Summary

66. Day 23: Sit with your Number Groups
SWBAT: Peer revise their essays
Reflection: What was the value of peer revision? What were some of the common mistakes that you saw while reading essays? What were some of the biggest strengths that you saw in the essays that you read?
RS: Three goals to work on for your final draft
Summary