Goal: Analysis of ACT 2
Students will interpret/ analyze act 2 through journal writing
1. Students will answer the following character analysis questions:
Answer all questions. Use SPECIFIC examples from the text. (Minimum of 7 sentences per answer.)
1. Review Portia's and Calpurnia's roles thus far in the play.Write out three quotes for each character that epitomize their roles. Explain what each quote reveals about their personalities.
2. List all of the conspirators that have been introduced in Acts 1 and 2
3. How does Brutus feel in each scene?
Discuss his emotions in each scene and support it with SPECIFIC EXAMPLES FROM THE STORY.
4.LIST EACH INSTANCE WHERE BRUTUS OVER RULES CASSIUS. Is this what Cassius expected? How can this foil his plan?
5. Begin in Act 1
Make a timeline of each step of the conspiracy plan - complete Act 2
6. Which character can you relate to (positively or negatively) ? What qualities do they posess? In what ways can you relate to them?
Please turn your work into www.turnitin.com
7. Begin Plot structure worksheet
CC.1.2.9-10.A: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
CC.1.2.9-10.B: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences and conclusions based on an author’s explicit assumptions and beliefs about a subject
