Julius Caesar Act 2 Scenes 1,2 3 and 4
Monday;
What is your impression of Portia
Calpurnia's Visions: How do you react to a "nightmare"?
Goal: Discuss and analyze ACT 2 Students will read, analyze and discuss Julius Caesar Students will relate to the concepts of betrayal and deception in modern society.
Brutus' side- Scene 1: Caesar's view- Scene 2
1. Students will read and review Act 2 Scene 1
2. Students will read and discuss Act 2 sc 2
** Students should complete their work packets
3. Review packet
The Rising Action:
1. Students will read and discuss Act 1 scenes 3 and 4
2. Answer packet questions
3. Act 2 Test on Wednesday, 2/6
Group Questions:
1. Review Portia's and Calpurnia's roles thus far in the play.Write out three quotes for each character that epitomize their roles. Explain what each quote reveals about their personalities.
2. List all of the conspirators that have been introduced in Acts 1 and 2
3. How does Brutus feel in each scene?
Discuss his emotions in each scene and support it with SPECIFIC EXAMPLES FROM THE STORY.
4.LIST EACH INSTANCE WHERE BRUTUS OVER RULES CASSIUS. Is this what Cassius expected? How can this foil his plan?
5. Begin in Act 1 (This will continue through Act 5)
Make a timeline of each step of the conspiracy plan - complete Act 2
6. Which character can you relate to (positively or negatively) ? What qualities do they posses? In what ways can you relate to them?
7. List and discuss all warnings that Caesar has received to this point in the story.
Please turn your work into www.turnitin.com
8. 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
Goal: Discuss and analyze ACT 2 Students will read, analyze and discuss Julius Caesar Students will relate to the concepts of betrayal and deception in modern society.
Brutus' side- Scene 1: Caesar's view- Scene 2
1. Students will read and review Act 2 Scene 1
2. Students will read and discuss Act 2 sc 2
** Students should complete their work packets
3. Review packet
The Rising Action:
1. Students will read and discuss Act 1 scenes 3 and 4
2. Answer packet questions
3. Act 2 Test on Wednesday, 2/6
Group Questions:
Act 2 Analysis
Goal: Analysis of ACT 2
Students will interpret/ analyze act 2
1. Students will answer the following character analysis questions:
FOR THE JOURNAL DUE ON WEDESDAY, 2/6: Answer 3 questions: You are required to answer 1 and 7, you may pick from the following: 3,4, or 6.
Students will interpret/ analyze act 2
1. Students will answer the following character analysis questions:
FOR THE JOURNAL DUE ON WEDESDAY, 2/6: Answer 3 questions: You are required to answer 1 and 7, you may pick from the following: 3,4, or 6.
**You should continually work on 2, 5, and 8. (You need to work on these throughout the story)
1. Review Portia's and Calpurnia's roles thus far in the play.Write out three quotes for each character that epitomize their roles. Explain what each quote reveals about their personalities.
2. List all of the conspirators that have been introduced in Acts 1 and 2
3. How does Brutus feel in each scene?
Discuss his emotions in each scene and support it with SPECIFIC EXAMPLES FROM THE STORY.
4.LIST EACH INSTANCE WHERE BRUTUS OVER RULES CASSIUS. Is this what Cassius expected? How can this foil his plan?
5. Begin in Act 1 (This will continue through Act 5)
Make a timeline of each step of the conspiracy plan - complete Act 2
6. Which character can you relate to (positively or negatively) ? What qualities do they posses? In what ways can you relate to them?
7. List and discuss all warnings that Caesar has received to this point in the story.
Please turn your work into www.turnitin.com
8. 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
