FRIDAY!

If you missed class today, just to let you know, we corrected your homework and then you got a study guide! I cannot recommend emphatically enough to make sure you understand all of the questions, and can answer them.

I haven't yet decided if I'm going to allow the study guide OR the play for your final, so best to be prepared for either situation.

There are far too many questions for me to put on here, so alas, you're going to have to utilize your friends as resources.

Enjoy your weekend!

Uh, it *is* a Tragedy...

Questions:
1. 860 l.8
2. What does Cassius have Titinius do?
3. What 'report' does Pindarus give Cassius? What do we learn is the reality?
4. How does Cassius die?
5. After Cassius dies, what does Pindarus do?
6. Why does Titinius die, and by whose sword does he do so?
7. Whom does Lucilius say he is and why do you think he does this?
8. How does Antony treat Lucilius?
9. Whom does Brutus ask to kill him? What are their responses?
10. Why does Brutus decide to take his own life?
11. Why does Antony refer to Brutus as 'the most noble Roman of them all"?

Game Plan:

Tomorrow we will hear soliloquies from individuals who were absent. We will then correct act 5.1 &5.2. (I know fourth period has already done this...)

Then we will finish act five, and of course answer some questions.

Study guide for our final test on Caesar! Whoo-hoo!
Friday we'll correct the homework, and then work on the study guide.

Monday- we'll take the test.

Nice job today guys! I know Shakespeare is difficult, and memorizing portions of a play and reciting it in front of your peers is challenging. Kudos to you, you vile bondmen, peevish schoolboys, and lover of words.

In the Home Stretch!

So we start Act Five! Yeay! Watch out now, this act moves very quickly! Today we read 5.1 and 5.2. Here are you questions:

1. 854. l.20
2. 855. l.47
3. 857. l.62 and Who is the masker and reveler?
4. l.70-88 What 'omen' makes Cassius concerned about the battle today?
5. 859. l.107 and 109
6. What preparations do Cassius and Brutus make with each other?
(5.2) 7. What orders does Brutus give his army and why?

HOMEWORK: SOLILOQUIES ARE DUE TOMORROW!!!!!!!

Drama in Art....

Drama Illustration.
For the first illustration, I’d like for you to illustrate any dramatic moment from Act 4. Also include quotes that encapsulates that dramatic moment.


Dramatic Elements:
On one half of your paper, I’d like for you to illustrate a metaphor or simile you can find in Act four. Make sure you write the metaphor/simile down on your illustration.

On the other half of your paper, I’d like for you to pick a dramatic element, and then find an example of the element within the play. Illustrate that dramatic element, and then write the quote containing the dramatic element somewhere on the illustration.

And for reference or for laughs, here's my stick Roman. Photo by Nikki, third period.

And a small note: I call assignments like these "Point Builders" primarily in that they're not too difficult to complete provided you take the time to look for the the elements within the text. Help yourself out, boost your grade by completing this and all remaining assignments to the best of your ability. And if you have questions, don't forget to post here as they come straight to my email...

PS- Zak's vastly superior new-and-improved stick Roman remains on my whiteboard. Check him out.

Conflict...

1. In scene three, why is Brutus very angry with Cassius?
2. How would you describe the relationship between Cassius and Brutus at the beginning of scene three?
3. What has Brutus accused Cassius of?
4. l.36, What threat is Cassius making to Brutus?
5. l.57. What did Cassius say to Brutus?
6. l.91 What does the dialogue between Brutus and Cassius reveal about their characters and feelings?
7. l.136. What is the point of this scene with the poet? (Shakespeare himself was a ‘jigging fool’)
8. l.144 How might Brutus deliver his next shocking line? What news does he reveal to the audience? Why does Portia do this?
9. l.145-160 Whom in this scene appears more emotional over this news?
10. l.179 An odd scene takes place where Brutus appears to have gotten ‘old news’ for the first time. There are many speculations as to why this scene has been added in. If you think about the importance of perception between soldiers and their leaders, can you come to an alternative reason as to why Shakespeare included this second scene intentionally?

Act Three- Comedy Central

Some memorable quotes from your plays..

Antony: "Pa-shaw, Caesar's my favorite."
Antony: "If I were Brutus, and he were me, he'd have you mutiny......I'm just putting it out there."
Antony: "He lies there dead because of Brutus' honorableness."
Cinna The Poet: "The rain...in....SPAIN yeah!"
Brutus: "Friends, Romans, Lovers, G's..."
Caesar: "Caesar says et tu Brute? Then Caesar says, Caesar dies."
Caesar: "Tis merely a flesh wound!"
Plebians: "Read us the will!"
Antony: "No"
Plebeians" The will!"
Antony: "I can't."
Plebeians" The will!"
Antony: "Okay!"
Questions from Act 4 scenes 1/2
1. Whom does Antony also include in 'death list'?
2. In four words (a list), describe Antony in Acts 1,2,3 &4. (Like for Caesar, I'd say 1.arrogant 2. clueless, and 3. dead)
3. pg 836 l.18
4. Why would Brutus want to converse with Cassius away from the troops?

Holy Smokes! Who IS this Antony?

Act3.2; you have to love it. There should be a law saying that you must love J.C.3.2. Okay, maybe not, and I can just hear you guys saying, (in high-pitched whiny voices I always use to quote you) "I don't love Caesar, I hate it! So there! Wah-wah-wah..."

How can you beat the speeches at Caesar's funeral? Brutus is wonderful at explaining why they killed Caesar. (Whose speech do we not get to hear, however?) But Antony pretty much kicks butt on the whole speech thing...

But who is this new Antony? Antony ..."That revels long-a-nights,.." ? Antony, "When Caesar says "Do this," it is performed."? Antony "For he can do no more than Caesar's arm/When Caesar's head is off."? What happened to this partying, if Caesar says jump, you ask how high, I can't think for myself without Caesar- Antony? That guy is gone. I mean, gone, gone. We get brand-spankin' new Antony, all shiny with rhetoric and revenge... I think the conspirators made a little blunder on that one, don't you?

JC 3.2

1. What reasons does Brutus give for killing Caesar?
2. How are Brutus’ rhetorical questions (l.28-33) an effective use of semantics to persuade the Romans in believing his reasons were just? (Why doesn’t anyone speak up?)
3. After Brutus is done speaking, how does the crowd react to him?
4. What are Antony’s examples of Caesar’s “ambition”?
5. As Antony repeats the line, “And Brutus is an honorable man”, what happens to the tone in which he says it? What happens to Brutus’ and the conspirator’s honor?
6. On l.105, Antony says, “Bear with me:
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar
And I must pause till it come back to me.
What do you think Antony is doing on stage? How would he say these lines, and how would the actor be positioned?
7. What does Antony use to get and maintain the Romans’ attention? Why do you think he doesn’t read it right away? What is one of Antony’s reasons for not reading it right away?

8. What irony can you find in these lines spoken by Antony:

216 I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts;
I am no orator, as Brutus is……
221 For I have neither writ, nor words, nor worth,
Action, no utterance, nor the power of speech
To stir men’s blood; I only speak right on.
9. According to Antony, what has Caesar willed to the people of Rome?
10. If not the wounds that have killed Caesar, then what did according to Antony? (l. 165-197)
11. Does Antony intend to make the people munity? How do you know? (Give me a specific line at the end of this scene.)

E.C.
l.43..."....With this I depart, that, as I slew
my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same
dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to
need my death"

How is Brutus' monologue written differently when compared to Antony's monologue?
What essentially is Brutus saying here?

Don't Lie, You're Maybe Liking Caesar a Little Bit...

SO much better than R&J, no? Okay so we're on 3.1, and wow, Caesar is killed. The plot thickens!

Here are your questions from today:
1. In l. 58-73, Caesar compares himself to something. Why is this comparison 'proof' Caesar will not change his mind?
2. What is the last thing Caesar sees as he dies? What tone can you detect in his last words? Explain.

3. In order to prevent chaos, what do the conspirators want to do?

4. In l. 123-137, Antony asks something of Brutus; what is it?

*5. Antony finally speaks in l. 148-163. What is he saying here? What difference do you detect in Antony when compared to the Antony in former acts?

6. What are the conditions in which Brutus is allowing Antony to speak at Caesar's funeral? Who disagrees with this rationale and why?

*7. What does Antony reveal in his soliloquy?

8. Who is Octavius, and what is his 'role' in Antony's plan? (Why does this guy matter?)

You missed reading 3.1 today, and your questions. Your only homework is to finish these questions.
EC opportunity!
l. 111, Cassius says:
Stoop then, and wash. How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

What is ironic about these lines?