Essay Writing Contest--information for those who are interested!

For Wednesday and Thursday: Finishing your outline and typing the essay--please work steadily!!!!

First, start by downloading the template for your essay:
MLA Essay Template:template

Second, work on finishing your essay outline first and have me check it for accuracy

Third, begin typing the essay (hopefully, you will have time to finish a rough draft and have time to edit it tomorrow before you turn in the final draft to be graded)

Remember: 
*Make sure you cite correctly (Act.Scene.lines)
*You use the sheet in your strategies sections to vary your essay language (signal words)

Here are some student samples from a previous year:
Student sample 1:Click here (tragic hero essay)
Student sample 2: Click here (tragedy essay)

FIRST--TEST, SECOND-ESSAY

First: We will begin by taking the test for Julius Caesar ---you may NOT use the book ONLY your character map AND YOUR 3X5 CARD---NO ONLINE RESOURCES/PHONES ALLOWED DURING THE TEST.
Second: When you finish please work on your essay beginning with the planning sheet first (2nd attached page)
Third: Begin writing your essay (either by hand or typing although I prefer it to be typed if possible)
Fourth: You may work on extra credit/missed work/showing me your packets, etc.


PLEASE NO TALKING UNTIL EVERYONE IS FINISHED WITH THE TEST. IF I SEE ANYONE SHARING ANSWERS/TALKING DURING THE TEST YOUR COMPUTER WILL BE TURNED OFF AND YOU WILL RECEIVE A ZERO--MOVE IF YOU FEEL IT TO BE NECESSARY!!!!

HERE IS A POSSIBLE OUTLINE FOR YOUR ESSAY:

Some help for writing your essay today: You should finish your outline today!!!! Tomorrow is the test!!!

Things to know for the test:

1. Main characters (you can use the character map)—who they are/what they did/types of people they are

2. Major Conflicts in the play

3. Soliloquy, aside, dramatic monologue, dialogue

4. study: Comprehension check questions and scene summaries from the packet
5. the literary devices we worked on in the packet: imagery, personification, simile/metaphor, etc.
Sparknotes Review video: Click here 


YOU MAY USE THE CHARACTER MAP AND A  3X5 CARD (PROVIDED TO YOU) WITH ANYTHING THAT YOU WISH (ON BOTH SIDES)
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THE ESSAY--DUE NO LATER THAN MONDAY 2/12--WE WILL HAVE TIME IN CLASS TO TYPE

The essay assignment and planning chart: click here

Here is a sample outline you can use to organize your ideas:
Julius Caesar outline

Here is the link to the packet with lines from the play/transitions:
Essay help packet


A special note: DO NOT GOOGLE ESSAYS ON JULIUS CAESAR AND COPY THEM!! THAT IS PLAGIARISM AND WILL EARN YOU A 0 ON THE ESSAY (AND PERSONAL DISGRACE). TRUST ME, I WILL KNOW.

Example from class:

Last day to get caught up on the Caesar packet--due by Friday 2/9!

Today you should make sure you have completed the following pages in the packet:
1. All Comprehension Check questions--Act 4 (page 40) and Act 5 (page 49)
2. All Scene Summaries--Act 4 (page 39) and Act 5 (page 48)
3. Rhetorical devices--pages 41-42
4. Monologue, soliloquy, and dialogue--pages 43-44
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5. Tragedy and the Tragic Hero--pages 51-top of 53
6. Choose 2 of numbers 10-15--bottom of page 53

extra credit:
You may do pages 45-47  on connotation/denotation if you like---see me if you need help!!

CAESAR TEST ON TUESDAY 2/6!!!

Yesterday's Notes: Remember the goal for today is to finish both worksheet 3.2 and Quick Write #3--both count for Q.2 grade!!

 Name:

Answer these questions ONLY AFTER you answer the Act 3.2 Comprehension Questions #1-6 pg. 32 from your packet. You must use the RACE strategy to get full-credit for these responses (40 pts.)

1. How does Shakespeare show the relationship between Brutus and the crowd through the crowd’s response to Brutus’s speech?

We can tell the audience likes Brutus after his speech because they respond in a positive way. They say things such as, “Give him a statue” and “Let him be Caesar” letting us know they approve of his actions at this point (3.2.51-52).

2. Evaluate Brutus’s sincerity in these lines. Support your answer with evidence from the text.

Brutus seems to be sincere in his speech because he only admits what he did and why and nothing else. He tells the crowd it was, “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved/Rome more” (3.2.51-52). This is what he told us earlier in the play.

3. How does Antony gain the trust of the crowd?

Antony gains their trust by easing into what he really means. He starts by calling the conspirators “honorable” and asks the crowd what they think of Caesar’s “ambition”.

7. How does Brutus use the word “ambition”?

Brutus uses the word “ambition” in regards to Caesar in a negative way, meaning power-hungry or wanting control. He states, “as he was ambitious I slew him"(3.2) he would make them all “slaves.””

9. How does Brutus use the word “honor”?

Brutus uses the word “honor” when he states, “Believe me for my honor” and “have respect to my honor” meaning that he has proven himself an honest and trustworthy person in the past (3.2.15-16).

Finish the annotations for 3.1 and "Catching Up" on our packet

Please add in the following scene summaries (we skipped) for Act 2 (page 24 in the big Caesar packet): We will need this packet again at the end of class.
Scene 3:
Artemidorus a supporter of Caesar has learned of the conspiracy. He writes a letter to Caesar and plans to hand it to him outside the Capitol.

Scene 4:
Brutus's House--Portia feels nervous about Brutus's participation in the conspiracy. She asks her servant Lucius to go to the Capitol and report back to her what is happening. The soothsayer continues to predict danger for Caesar.

Next we will go over the remaining annotations for the 3.1 worksheet and fill out the back page (if you have not)

Lastly, turn to page 29-30 in the big Caesar packet--we will work on completing these vocabulary pages (if you do not finish--complete it for homework)