UNIT 2

22 INSTRUCTIONAL DAYS (22 HOURS)

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

Students engage in small-group dramatic reading performances and craft informative essays

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Students read William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar in its entirety. Students continue to work with central ideas such as the relationship between the individual and the state and exercise of power, as well as new central ideas of social bonds and ethics of honor. Students’ work with Julius Caesar includes exploring Shakespeare’s craft in structuring the play and developing characters, along with analyzing the impact of powerful rhetorical language, not only on the aesthetic effects of the play but also on the plot. In addition, students refine their speaking and listening skills as they prepare to present small-group dramatic readings of key scenes from the play.

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• ELA Grade 12 Module 2, Unit 2 - Unit Overview

• ELA Grade 12 Module 2, Unit 2 - Unit Overview

Tags

• Authors:

• William Shakespeare

• Texts:

• The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

In This Unit

• Lesson 1: Beginning with Conflict

• Lesson 2: Developing Characters

• Lesson 3: Rhetoric and Emerging Central Ideas

• Lesson 4: Perspective

• Lesson 5: Developing Multiple Central Ideas

• Lesson 6: Brutus and Internal Conflict

• Lesson 7: Central Ideas: Ethics of Honor and Exercise of Power

• Lesson 8: Social Bonds

• Lesson 9: Caesar's Character

• Lesson 10: Structural Choice: Death Midway into the Play

• Lesson 11: Sacrifice or Butchery?

• Lesson 12: Considering Reactions to Caesar's Death

• Lesson 13: Conflicting Interpretations of Caesar's Death

• Lesson 14: Brutus' Use of Rhetoric

• Lesson 15: Brutus V Antony

• Lesson 16: Who is Responsible for Cinna's Death?

• Lesson 17: Caesar's Ghost and Developing Conflict

• Lesson 18: Dramatic Readings

• Lesson 19: How does Cassius' Death Contribute to the Tragedy?

• Lesson 20: Tragic Resolution

• Lesson 21: Performance of Dramatic Reading

• Lesson 22: Unit Assessment: Does the Title Work?