Act 5 Analysis

Dates:
Thursday, 4/23 - Act 5 analysis due
      *Please use www.turnitin.com  (We will discuss these questions in class)
        -Bring your JC work packets to class
Friday, 4/24 - All 6 Study Island exercises are due
Monday, 4/27 - Julius Caesar Test
                        -Act 5 projects are due
                       -Plot structure is due
                       -Completed Julius Caesar packets are due
                               -Make sure you complete the quote page (include Character, Act, scene and Line)
                              -Complete the short answer  and the crossword
**All answers must be in complete sentences
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Bell Ringer
Wednesday:
Who is alive and why did Shakespeare focus on these characters to conclude the play?

Act 5 Analysis
Complete all parts of each question.  Answer in complete paragraphs.

1. Now that you have read the play in its entirety, decide for yourself whether or not Shakespeare believed that the murder of Caesar was in the best interests of the Roman people?
-To answer this question, reflect upon the facts of the play: who lives? (were their acts just?), who dies? (were their acts unjust?), and how do the speeches associated with their deaths shed light on the way “God” (in the case of a fictitious story, the playwright himself) would judge them and their actions?


2. . Since Brutus himself is said to have been “the noblest Roman of all” (V, 74), why do you think he is referred to in this manner?  Do you agree with this statement?  Explain


3. . What is said and done in Act V that supports the comment: Brutus' and Cassius' defeat is revenge for Caesar's murder?

4. Using detail from the play, discuss a moral lesson learned from the tragic events that transpired

5. Who was/ were the tragic heroes?  Provide evidence from the play that proves they were tragic heroes

6. Julius Caesar is filled with examples of dramatic irony.  Define dramatic irony (from your notes) and give two specific instances of it from the play

Act 5

Act 5

Thinking About Thinking: (Metacognitive Thinking)

Monday

Bell Ringer

Discuss elements of the falling action

Tuesday:
Make a Death List from the play

Wednesday:
Who is alive and why did Shakespeare focus on these characters to conclude the play?

Goal: Introduction to ACT 5:  (Falling Action)  Students will read, analyze and discuss Julius Caesar Students will relate to the concepts of betrayal and deception in modern society.

1. Students will read and review Act 4
 2. Students will read and discuss Act 4
** Students should complete their work packets and plot structure sheet

MONDAY
HOMEWORK:

READ THE REST OF THE PACKET

Falling Action:

1. Students will read and discuss Act 5 scenes 1-3
2. Answer packet questions

Tuesday- 
Complete Study Island Acts 1-5
Complete 15 questions in each section or keep going until you receive a 70
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Closure: (Each day) Discuss Caesar and Brutus as a paradox ***Students should read the translated version on their own

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

Act 4 Analysis

SStudents will analyze Act 4 through Journal Writing

-Must write in complete paragraphs.  Min. 7 sentences per answer.  Must use specific examples from the act.  Please indicate page and line numbers.

A.      What is the overall theme of this act? Give specific examples from the act to support your answer

2B.      How has Antony changed in Act IV? Give specific examples from the act to support your answer

C.      Describe the triumvirate. (List the members and discuss the stability of the government)

 Give specific examples from the act to support your answer

5D.      What disturbing news does Brutus use to explain his irritable mood in scenes II and III?

6E.      List three mistakes that Brutus has made up to this point in the play.Give specific examples from the act to support your answer

7F.      Why does Brutus want to attack Antony and Lepidus directly at Phillipi?  How does Cassius feel about this plan?  How do you feel about this plan?

8G.      What does Caesar’s ghost symbolize?

 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

Test

Wednesday:  Test Act 3

Act 3 projects will be due by Thursday, 4/2  (tomorrow)

**Homework:  Read up to (AND INCLUDING)  page 165 in the packet for Monday.  I will check!

Antony Speeches:

Wednesday and Thursday next week.  I will pick randomly.


Have a safe holiday!!