Act 4

Thinking About Thinking: (Meta-cognitive Thinking)
Bell Ringer: 

Monday:

Discuss the mind frame of the crowd
Tuesday:
Discuss the manipulation used by Antony
Wednesday:
Discuss elements of the falling action

Goal: Introduction to ACT 4:  (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 continue to read and review Act 4
 2. Students will read and discuss Act 4
** Students should complete their work packets and plot structure sheet


HOMEWORK:

 THE PACKET

Falling Action:

Act 4 Analysis

SStudents will analyze Act 4 through Journal Writing

  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?

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