Quick Write #1/finish any undone questions from the Act 1 Scene 2 packet

Copy this at the top of a blank sheet of paper:
Quick Write #1: (Due Today---Use your TREEE*S format)
How do Shakespeare's specific choices about how to begin the play introduce conflict in this Act? (think about the elements of exposition--characters/setting from the notes)
(We will brainstorm on the board before you begin)

Sample outline using this format:
T-(thesis) (TAG) In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (restate the question with an answer--the 2 literary elements/techniques you are choosing)
R-(reason) This is because...
E-(evidence/explain) The author uses (lit. element/tech) Give textual evidence and explain 
E-(evidence/explain) The author uses (lit. element/tech) Give textual evidence and explain 
S-(summarizing statement) The author uses both....

Notes from class for the Quick Write: 

Setting—

--a month before he dies 2/15/feast of Lupercal/after Pompey’s defeat/streets of Rome

Characterization

Characterization of commoners and the tribunes---some like Caesar some don’t 

Brutus—characterized as loyal to Caesar and Rome/not giving in to Cassius’s manipulations/honorable

Cassius –characterized as…manipulative/underhanded/uses flattery on Brutus/insults Caesar/writes fake letters to Brutus

Caesar—as superstitious/doesn’t believe soothsayer’s warning/does not trust Cassius

Conflict

—conflict politically in Rome (some fear Caesar is getting too much power). 

*Cassius vs. Brutus---Cassius is using flattery/insulting Caesar to convince Brutus to be on his side but not working yet because Brutus does not want to be a traitor to Rome

Notes from class: (my sample brainstorm)

In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, the author introduces conflict in Act 1 by characterizing Brutus and Cassius. He shows us how badly Cassius wants to convince Brutus to join his plot to kill Caesar but for now Brutus will not.

Body 1 (Cassius)       (Act.Scene.Lines)   (1.2.23-35)

Body 2 (Brutus)

Summarizing sentence