Sun. 10/31—Membean practice due.
Thurs. 11/17–LAST DAY to turn in Julius Caesar choice board assessments. No work will be accepted after Thanksgiving break.
Monday, October 31
LG: Consider the rhetorical strategies speakers employ and evaluate their effectiveness on intended audience.
- Opener— Review Act I Scene 2 Lines 25-189, p. 24-30, and from Cassius’s rhetoric identify one example each of ethos, logos, and pathos. Include a lead-in, citation, and commentary/interpretation for each quote you select.
- Review differences in narrative techniques between poetry and prose; summarize Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy and view three clips to critique various interpretations of a scene
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei0fnP9s0KA Mel Gibson
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjuZq-8PUw0 Kenneth Branagh
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muLAzfQDS3M Adrian Lester
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ks-NbCHUns Sir Laurence Oliver
- Compare film portrayals and discuss blocking techniques for staging a scene—(how to annotate a text for nuance of speech and gestures); model with 1.2.1-82.
- Student-Led Work Session— analyze a section of Act II, applying understanding of character, plot, and subtext to perform the scene, adding blocking, physical movement, gestures, props, and sound effects.
- Closer—How does the physical and vocal delivery of a monologue affect the audience’s perception of a character? Cite examples from one of the clips viewed today.
Tuesday, November 1
LG: Understand plot, character development, and dramatic irony in Julius Caesar.
- Opener— Rehearse with your group to review your plan to perform student adaptations of Julius Caesar
- Work session—student groups perform adapted scenes
- Closer—Consider JC Choice Board level 2 option for a monologue. Revisit JC Word Trace (handout). Review the section of Act II that you performed; select this single most important sentence that connects to a thematic topic (see the Word Trace handout for ideas). Paraphrase the line and explain how it connects to one of the thematic topics.
Wednesday, November 2
LG: Review methods of characterization and analyze character in Julius Caesar.
- Opener—Paraphrase 2.2.41-51, focusing on connections between the speakers.
- Student-led work session: Students will compete to organize the events of a scene from Act III of Julius Caesar.
- Roman Empire groups will receive a text summary of a scene from Act III of Julius Caesar.
- They will also receive a Ziploc baggy of lines cut into strips from their assigned scene.
- Using the summary of the act, they must paraphrase the lines in order to chronologically sequence the actors’ lines into a cohesive order that fits the action of the summary.
- They will assemble their lines in order on a butcher paper poster.
- Read/analyze Act III, focusing on Antony’s and Brutus’s actions in the immediate aftermath of Caesar’s death. Complete STEAL graphic organizer for each character.
- Closer—Mystery envelopes
Thursday, November 3
LG: Analyze a film director’s interpretation of Julius Caesar focusing on character and theme.
- Opener—Review vocabulary from Act I, II, and III.
- View Julius Caesar, analyzing the film director’s choices (camera angles, choice of actors, set, costumes, sound effects, music, etc.) and evaluating the effectiveness of this interpretation.
Friday, Nov. 4
LG: Consider the rhetorical strategies speakers employ and evaluate their effectiveness on intended audience.
- Opener: watch a scene from Law and Order https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjG2AMYiyrg where the lawyers deliver closing arguments from a murder. Critique the persuasive and rhetorical moves each lawyer makes.
- Review Act III of Julius Caesar, considering the question of whether the conspirators are justified in killing Caesar.
- Analyze evidence supporting and refuting the conspirators’ actions. For example, consider the following:
- Caesar’s physical limitations (I ii 95-131)
- Why should Caesar be king? (I.ii. 135-141)
- The fate of Marullus and Flavius (I.ii. 281-287)
- Brutus’s reasons for killing Caesar (I.i. 10-34)
- Caesar refuses the crown (I. ii. 220-246)
- Caesar’s will (III.ii. 240-244 and 249-254)
- Teams will compile text evidence in the style of persuasive “closing argument remarks” and vote if Caesar should be assassinated based on the evidence up to Caesar’s speech 3.1.58-73.
- Closer—Defend your vote in a short response and summarize Caesar’s good and bad qualities according to the text thus far.