Act 3 analysis

Students will interpret/ analyze act 2 through journal writing

Act 3 Analysis

1. What reason does Caesar give for not reading Artemidorus’s letter?

2. . What is Metellus Cimber’s petition to Caesars? What is Caesars’

response and why does he give this response? What was the propose of this petition?

3. What was each of the following characters to do at the capitol:

Trebonious, Cimber, Casca, Brutus?

4. What is Caesar’s opinion of himself? How do we know this? What does

he reference himself as?  Why is this ironic?

5. What does “Et tu, Brute?” mean? How do these words relate to the theme

of friendship in the play? Why would Caesar say this?

6. Summarize Antony’s main points in his funeral speech?

7.Discuss each step of Antony’s plan to sway the plebians

8. . Summarize Antony’s soliloquy. 

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