Prague, Germany and the Alps (2013)

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BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH!

Beware the Ides of March!  Quarter 3 Book Talks are due on March 15!

Cornell Note-Taking

Study Guide, Julius Caesar

Know the following literary terms and how they are used in the play:

Catharsis

Tragedy

Tragic Flaw

Hamartia

Aside

Soliloquy

Monologue

Dialogue

Irony

Dramatic Irony

Foreshadowing

Imagery

Iambic Pentameter

The Themes of Julius Caesar

Know the following characters:

Julius Caesar

Marcus Brutus

Cassius

The Soothsayer

Calpurnia

Decius Brutus

Portia

Casca

Artemidorus

Marc Antony

Octavius

Cinna the Poet

Be able to identify the speaker, context, and significance of the following quotations:

“Speak hands for me!”  (Act III, Scene I, 76)

“Et tu, Brute?  Then fall Caesar.”  (Act III, Scene I, 77)

“Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius; come not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna…”  (Act II, Scene III, 1-2)

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me you ears…”  (Act III, Scene II, 73-74)

“There is tears, for his love; joy, for his fortune; honor, for his valor; and death, for his ambition.”  (Act III, Scene II, 27-29)

“This was the most unkindest cut of all…” (Act III, Scene II, 184)

“This was the noblest Roman of them all.”  (Act V, Scene V, 68)

“Caesar, now be still; I killed not thee with half so good a will.”  (Act V, Scene V, 50-51)

“What trash is Rome, what rubbish and what offal, when it serves for the base matter to illuminate so vile a thing as Caesar!”  (Act I, Scene III, 108-111)

“Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war…”  (Act III, Scene I, 273)

“I am as constant as the Northern Star…”  (Act III, Scene I, 60)

“’This was a man!’”  (Act V, Scene V, 75)

“We’ll send Marc Antony to the Senate House, and he shall say you are not well today.  Let me, upon my knee, prevail in this.”  (Act II, Scene II, 52-54)

“Nor construe any further neglect than that poor Brutus, with himself at war, forgets the shows of love to other men.”  (Act I, Scene II, 45-47)

“Words before blows; is it so, countrymen?”  (Act V, Scene I, 27)

“Tear him for his bad verses!”  (Act III, Scene III, 30)

Weekend Reading Assignment

Read the following article: "Facebook Brings Us Closer Together and Further Apart"


Due: Monday, November 28

Weekend Reading Assignment

Mr. Wickersham isn't the only one peeved by the Shakespeare doubters!  Read the following article/interview (make sure to read both pages): "Enough with the conspiracy theories, says one author: Shakespeare really was Shakespeare."


Due: Monday, November 7

Weekend Reading Assignment

Read the following article: "How David Beats Goliath: When Underdogs Break the Rules"


Due: Monday, October 24