Friday, February 16, 2024

Drama terms test, ACT 1 Test. JULIUS CAESAR INTRO, AND MORE

 


"Men at some time are masters of their fate.  The Fault dear Brutus lies not in the stars"                                                                                                                                          - Cassius

HOMEWORK  NOTE: WEDNESDAY, 2/21 DOUBLE Homework for WEDNESDAY, 2/21- Read Act 1 scenes  1 and 2 Modern English

Homework for THURSDAY, 2/22 Read Act 1 Scene 3 Modern English

Read, highlight, make notes in side margins, and list all important actions that occurred on each page (AT THE BOTTOM of the page below the modern English section)

1.  TUESDAY, 2/20 SINGLE -Intro to JC

-Caesar History/ Roman History - In packet

Caesar timeline

2.  Wednesday, 2/21 ,DOUBLE - MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR READING HOMEWORK COMPLETED BEFORE CLASS

 Intro to JC- 

Folder notes

4.  Thursday, 2/22-MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR READING HOMEWORK COMPLETED BEFORE CLASS

Read Julius Caesar -FINISH ACT 1 AND REVIEW PACKET

Quick Drama Terms Review Test--(You need to review these terms)

5. FRIDAY, 2/23/2024 DOUBLE

REVIEW STUDY GUIDE

ACT 1 TEST

Bell ringer:  Discuss one way in which people can be manipulated.  Give an example

6. MONDAY, 2/26- SINGLE

BEFORE YOU ENTER CLASS ON MONDAY, 2/26: Act 2, Scene 1

**You are responsible for reading the MODERN ENGLISH sections assigned to you each night.  You are expected to take comprehensive notes, highlight and write a summary on each page.  This will be graded.
***We will NEVER READ the Modern English version in class.

-Complete the corresponding study guide questions.

TUESDAY, 2/27- Quick Drama Terms Review Test--(You need to review these terms)

-CONTINUE REVIEWING ACT 2

WEDNESDAY, 2/28- BEFORE YOU ENTER CLASS : Act 2, Scenes 2-4 (finish the act)

**You are responsible for reading the MODERN ENGLISH sections assigned to you each night.  You are expected to take comprehensive notes, highlight and write a summary on each page.  This will be graded.
***We will NEVER READ the Modern English version in class.

-Complete the corresponding study guide questions.

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Intro to Julius Caesar
 Goal: Students will explore the historical background to Julius Caesar
Students will discuss PARADOX

1. In the packet, students will read "An Introduction to Julius Caesar"
2. Student will read and take notes on "A Brief History of the Roman Empire"

3. Review Caesar's Timeline: http://www.softschools.com/timelines/julius_caesar_timeline/33/

Paradox:
Paradox can prove to be very revealing about human nature and the way that we speak. If someone says to you "I'm a compulsive liar," do you believe them or not? That statement in itself is a paradox, because it is self contradictory, which is precisely what a paradox is.
At the most basic level, a paradox is a statement that is self contradictory because it often contains two statements that are both true, but in general, cannot both be true at the same time. In the aforementioned example, can someone be both a compulsive liar yet telling the truth at the same time?

Caesar as a PARADOX:
1. A great general
2. Charismatic in politics
3. Decisive in his judgements
4. Sharp in his evaluations of men

(However/ Paradoxically)
1. He is deaf in one ear
2. Prone to fevers and epilepsy
3. Unable to compete with Cassius by swimming in the Tiber River fully armed
4. Afflicted with a sterile marriage
5. He professes to fear nothing yet is extremely superstitious
6. He thinks he is above flattery, yet he is especially vulnerable to it.

All of this is a paradox because he had aspirations to be above MORTAL weakness


Brutus is a PARADOX
1.1. Strengths different- weaknesses similar

A. Truly noble Roman from an ancient family whose glory it had been to defend the personal liberties of Rome (Roman Tradition)
B. Good rapport with courageous and noble wife
C. Genuinely kind to servants
D. Trustworthy in friendship
E. Finds Caesar's ambition for power distasteful and vulgar

**Brutus's "Hubris" is  pride of family and country -- on these he is vulnerable to flattery even though he too, feels that he is above it.

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Julius Caesar Resources:

Packet: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n2XT_oFILjsytBf5HphF79jQEW7BNbLi/view?usp=sharing                    

**We will read the first act together
**If you don't bring your packet and play, you will receive a 0 for the day.
**Packets and Plays will be checked daily


Links: To Review
Links: To Review
The Globe
http://bhscomp1.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-globe_4.html
Blank Globe: 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vuLZuDBs8i8uC_1ZUA18Kdguc6s6GJvM/view?usp=sharing

Drama Terms
https://bhscomp1.blogspot.com/2021/09/drama-terms.html

Drama Terms PP
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10ZdUMAGOu1zz36XfniauFjwMaKZXw6A0/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115237694256539959089&rtpof=true&sd=true

Renaissance History
http://bhscomp1.blogspot.com/2016/12/renaissance-history.html

Contributions from the Renaissance
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZURCPBR_wNFuLekqVG61knJ0_K-2zS-W/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115237694256539959089&rtpof=true&sd=true


Julius Caesar Review:
http://bhscomp1.blogspot.com/2020/07/jc-review-and-audio.html

Act Summaries: http://bhsworldlit.blogspot.com/2014/02/julius-caesar-review.html


R11.A.2 Identify, interpret, describe and analyze literary devices in fictional and
literary

__________________________
citing in text

EXAMPLE: MLA FORMAT

CITING A LONG AND SHORT QUOTE

 

Mark Antony uses many forms of rhetoric when he addresses the Roman people concerning Caesar’s funeral when he states:

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones;

So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus

Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it. (Shakespeare, Act 2, 3, 78-85) (quote more than 4 lines ex)

 

  He continues to use the refrain, “For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men” (Shakespeare, Act 2, 3, 67-68). (short quote ex)


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