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Unit Essential Question
What motivates characters to behave as they do, and how does the playwright supply the audience with clues and details to make discernments about characters?
Lesson 1 Essential Question
What are the elements of Shakespearean drama?
Lesson 2 Essential Question
What are the elements of Shakespearean tragedy?
Lesson 3 Essential Question
How are rhetorical devices used to persuade in Julius Caesar?
Lesson 4 Essential Question
What role does poetry play in Shakespearean drama?
Lesson 5 Essential QuestionWhat are the steps for producing live theater?
Major Unit Assignments1. Memorize first 12 lines of Julius Caesar to either (a) perform or (b) write down.2. Write a rhetorical analysis of Mark Antony’s funeral speech from Act III3. Demonstrate how the elements of tragedy are “at work” in Julius Caesar via powerpoint / written analysis4. Create a Director’s Notebook (group of 4) for a scene from Julius Caesar
Lesson 1 Vocabulary acts, scenes, lines, monologue, soliloquy, aside, blank verse, comic relief, irony (verbal, situation, dramatic, cosmic), foreshadowing, hyperbole, metaphor, oxymoron, tragedy, Freytag triangle
Lesson 2 Vocabulary tragic hero, tragic flaw, calamities, supernatural / fate / fortune/ chance, tragic conflicts, tragic pattern, exposition/rising action/climax/falling action/ resolution
Lesson 3 Vocabulary oration, eulogy, Rhetorical Situation, logos / pathos / ethos, enargeia, , self-deprecation, verbal irony, repetition, synecdoche, and other rhetorical devices as needed
Lesson 5 Vocabulary director’s notebook, stage directions, props, Fourth Wall, scenes, blocking, motivation, lighting, script, dialogue
Lesson 4 Vocabulary Shakespearean sonnet, rhyme scheme, iambic pentameter, couplet, quatrain, end-stopped line, enjambment,
SLM for Shakespeare’s The Tragedy Julius Caesar
Honor, Glory, and Power
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