1. By William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
By William Shakespeare

2. Pre reading questions

3. Pre-Reading Questions
1. Think about the qualities possessed by a good leader. Generate a list of these qualities and choose a leader who exhibits several of them. Be ready to justify your choices to the class.
2. How far would you go to stop a friend from harming your country? To obtain revenge on someone who hurt your best friend? Which is more important to you, friendship or personal principles? Why?
3. To what extent can we control the future? How superstitious are you? Do you watch for omens before important events? Do you read your horoscope every day and follow its advice?

4. LITERARY ANALYSIS

5. A Note About Notes Step One: Reading Comprehension Step Two: Analysis
What happened?
When and where?
Who was responsible?
Step Two: Analysis
How did it happen?
Why did it happen?
What character motivations and circumstances were a factor?
Compare/contrast questions.

6. A Note About Notes Step Three: Literary Elements
Literary elements and analysis go hand in hand
You already know a lot of literary elements:
Figurative language
Plot
Points of View
Imagery
Setting
Speaker

7. What is Analysis?
The how and why something was written, but not just in terms of the story itself.
Text: Why did Antigone want to bury her brother?
Author: Why did Sophoclese use this as the inciting incident for his play?
Self/World: Why do others choose to act in defiance of society’s laws?
To successfully analyze literature you’ll need to remember that authors make specific choices for particular reasons.
Another way to look at a literary analysis is to consider a piece of literature from your own perspective.  Rather than thinking about the author’s intentions, you can develop an argument based on a literary element.

8. notes

9. Pompey and Triumvirate
Pompey grew up in a wealthy Roman family during a time of war between followers of Gaius Marius and those of Lucius Sulla.
When Pompey was in his 20s, he raised his own army, allied himself with Sulla, and defeated Marius.
Pompey became a popular hero. In 60 BCE Pompey, Julius Caesar, and Marcus Crassus formed a triumvirate—a group of three rulers—and took control of Rome.

10. Pompey and Civil War
Pompey grew more and more concerned with Caesar’s growing popularity and decided to crush him.
Violent civil war broke out between their followers.
Eventually, Caesar defeated Pompey who had escaped to Egypt only to be put to death by the Egyptian government.

11. Tribunes
Tribune was the title for various elected officials in Ancient Rome.
Flavius and Marullus are two tribunes who are friends of Brutus and Cassius.

12. Literary Elements Pun Humor
Two meanings suggested by same word or two similar-sounding words
Malapropism
Character mistakenly uses a word for another word