1. Julius Caesar Act I
May 13, 2016

2. Do Now – 5 Min
A good friend of yours has been elected president of the student council. Soon, you notice that he or she is abusing the position by claiming privileges and using it to further his or her social life.
How would you deal with this situation?
Explain in 5 sentences

3. Drama Terms Dialogue Monologue a conversation between characters.
a speech by one character in a play, story or poem. Given to another character.

4. Drama Terms Soliloquy Aside a speech given by a character alone.
short speech delivered by an actor in a play, which expresses the character’s thoughts.
Traditionally, the aside is directed to the audience and is presumed to be inaudible to the other actors.

5. Shakespeare and The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
“Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek headed men, and such as sleep 0’nites;
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous”
-Julius Caesar
Shakespeare and The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

6. Agree or Disagree Power and manipulation go hand in hand
Citizens do not have to monitor or participate in government
Other people know a person better than he or she knows himself or herself
Sympathy is a stronger emotion than envy

7. Keys to Understanding the Text
Refer to the Character Guide (p.825)
Refer to the right-hand sidebar (glosses) to help you with words you may not understand
Use the stage directions [in brackets] to help you follow the play

8. Group Reading
Act I, Scene I Pages: Answer the Following: 1. What fact about the commoners attracts Flavius’ attention? (825) 2. What does Marullus think about the people celebrating in the streets? ( ) 3 According to Marullus’ monologue, whom does he support: Caesar or Pompey? (826)

9. Paraphrasing – Marullus’ Monologue
Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? What tributaries follow him to Rome, To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels? You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! Paraprase Why would you celebrate it? What victory does he bring home? What foreign lands has he conquered and captive foreigners chained to his chariot wheels? You blockheads, you unfeeling men!

10. Paraphrasing – Marullus’ Monologue
Lines O you hard hearts, you cruèl men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day with patient expectation To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome. Paraphrase You hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, didn’t you know Pompey? Many times you climbed up on walls and battlements, towers and windows—even chimney tops—with your babies in your arms, and sat there patiently all day waiting to see great Pompey ride through the streets of Rome.

11. Paraphrasing – Marullus’ Monologue
Lines And when you saw his chariot but appear, Have you not made an universal shout, That Tiber trembled underneath her banks, To hear the replication of your sounds Made in her concave shores? And do you now put on your best attire? And do you now cull out a holiday? And do you now strew flowers in his way That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone! Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude.

12. Possible Paraphrase Response
And when you caught a glimpse of his chariot, didn’t you shout so loud that the river Tiber shook as it echoed? And now you put on your best clothes? And now you take a holiday? And now you throw flowers in the way of he who was victorious over Pompey’s sons? Get out of here! Run home and beg the gods for forgiveness!

13. Exit
Act 1, Scene 2 Pages: 829 – 838 Answer the Following: 1. How does Caesar respond to the soothsayer’s warning? (829) 2. According to Cassius, what does Brutus not realize about himself? (830) 3. At the end of Scene II in lines , Cassius makes plans. What plans does he make? Why? (838)