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