Julius+Caesar

Timed Writing Help

 * Here is a version of the May 13 review lesson on PIGSAC . We looked at an excerpt from Act II.i, when Brutus discouraged the other conspirators from adding Antony to the hit list. Please give me feedback as to how helpful the Showme.com lesson is. I am thinking about using this app more and need to know.
 * Here is the practice prompt for the May 20 prewriting practice
 * Here are typed notes for the May 20 12-minute prewriting practice.
 * Here is a photo of my annotations of the prompt.

Background information

 * **Shakespeare and Elizabethan England**
 * Pages 1186-1189 of our textbook
 * Globe Theater illustration
 * Shakespeare and the Globe: Then and Now
 * Shakespeare's biography quiz
 * Here is an interesting article about the political climate in Elizabethan England
 * ==Julius Caesar the Real Man and Rome during his time==
 * The History Channel's website
 * PBS's web page over Julius Caesar the real man
 * The BBC's article over Caesar can be found here.
 * USHistory.org has an interesting page with a timeline


 * **Literary Analysis Workshop**
 * Introductory PowerPoint of guiding question and reading strategies
 * Pages 1190-1197 of our textbook


 * **The Play**
 * Did you know that you can listen to the play through our interactive online textbook at my.hrw.com? If you want online access to the textbook, email me. I can then make sure you have an account set up and will reply with your username and password.
 * Here is an online script of the play. It is not from our textbook, but it is the same dialogue. The files do not take as long to download.