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Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar. ACT I. Week’s Homework Assignments. Tuesday: Finish Act I Wednesday: Finish Act II Thursday: Finish Act III Friday: Finish Act IV Monday : PORTFOLIOS DUE! Finish Act V, Prepare for Socratic Seminar on Funeral Orations Tuesday: Review for test. Denotation.

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Julius Caesar

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  1. Julius Caesar ACT I

  2. Week’s Homework Assignments • Tuesday: Finish Act I • Wednesday: Finish Act II • Thursday: Finish Act III • Friday: Finish Act IV • Monday: PORTFOLIOS DUE! Finish Act V, Prepare for Socratic Seminar on Funeral Orations • Tuesday: Review for test

  3. Denotation • Who knows how to cite a play? • Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 1-5 • 1:2:200-5 • Editions • Folger Shakespeare Library - http://www.folger.edu • Digital Text of Plays (online & PDF) - http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/?chapter=4

  4. Enjambment • What is enjambment? • A line break without a pause in speech • How does it work? • Don’t pause at the end of every line • When do you pause? • Commas, periods, and other natural pauses.

  5. Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 1-80 (1:1:1-80) • Iambic Pentameter • Count the syllables, listen to your natural rhythm of speaking • “Is this a holiday? What? Know you notBeing mechanical, you ought not walk” • Enjambment • “Upon a laboring day without the signOf your profession—Speak, what trade art thou?

  6. Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 1-80 (1:1:1-80) • Outdated Language • “Neat’s leather” (1:1:29) • cowhide • Missing syllabus • “whe’er” (1:1:66) • Word Order

  7. Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 1-363 (1:2:1-363) • Your turn to try reading. Who wants to volunteer to read aloud? • Ides of March • When is it? • Why is it significant? • Accent mark on plungéd (1:2:112)

  8. Building the Argument • Act I, Scene 2, lines 135-175 (142-170), Cassius’ speech to Brutus (“Why, man, doth he bestride the narrow world…) • What is Cassius trying to convince Brutus to do? • What logical arguments does he make? • What appeals to emotions does he make?(Identify techniques and cite specific examples of each.) • How does Brutus respond?

  9. Homework • Finish Act I • Tomorrow: We will debrief Act I and discuss Cassius’ speech. • We will also start Act II. • Exit Ticket: 4 Reasons Reading Shakespeare is hard are: _______________

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