I. 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.
(Tuesday )
Discuss Act 4
Scenes 1, 2, and 3
Discuss the political tension
Discuss Brutus and his inner suffering
Discuss the issues between Cassius and Brutus
Discuss how Brutus must feel about himself
(What does he realize?????????)
Tuesday and Wednesday
Complete Act 4
Complete Act 4 Study Island
Review Packet
Discuss Analysis Questions
Thursday: Test - Act 4 as well as Vocab Acts 3 and 4 will be included in this test
Work on Analysis after test
Act 4 Analysis Questions:
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?
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.
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?
7. Begin Plot structure worksheet
8. Complete your packets up to this point
Due Dates:
Due Dates:
Thursday, 5/4- Act 4 Test
Friday, 5/5- Study Island Due
(Work on analysis in class on Friday)
Antony Speeches on Monday, 5/8
Tuesday, 5/9- Turn in your Act 4 Analysis to www.turnitin.com
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
