October 29

AGENDA:

1. Lit circle final
2. Group presentations


HW: Lit analysis due Thursday by midnight; unit test tomorrow

October 31

AGENDA:

1. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
2. Poem analysis' - groups 


HW: Literary analysis due by midnight tonight.

October 30

AGENDA:

1. Unit Test


HW: Final papers emailed by Friday midnight

October 28

AGENDA:

1. Peer editing - Economy of Language
2. Revision is an important part of the process - embrace it! 


HW: Final lit circle and presentations tomorrow; Lit analysis due Thursday by midnight; Unit test on Wednesday; papers emailed to me by Friday dbyrne@smjuhsd.org

YOUR ROUGH DRAFTS DUE MONDAY

All

If you did not stop by my room to pick up your thesis please text or email me so I can send it to you. You must have a HARD COPY rough draft in class on Monday to begin revision and peer editing. IF you were absent today from class - you will need to email or text me your thesis. No rough draft will be accepted until I have seen at least an attempt at your thesis.

Cell: 805-431-2191
Email: dbyrne@righetti.us

If you want me to take another look at your thesis - see above. I am ok with that. Your thesis is the backbone of your paper. It needs to be strong. You can always change it  - but you need to have the formula (training wheels on, if you will) first. 

Although clause, 
assertion clause;   (what do you believe to be true and why)
therefore,
call to action.          (this needs to be to all, society, individuals, we (collectively)


Prompt for paper: Analysis: Why did William Shakespeare write Julius Caesar? What did he want us to learn about the human condition, about being human? (Window/Mirror)

October 25

AGENDA:

1. Turn in Thesis for review
2. Everyone shares their logical fallacies and explains
3. GRAMMAR TIME! 


HW: Rough draft due hard copy in class on Monday;Lit Circle presentations on Tuesday; Lit analysis on Thursday; Unit Test on Wednesday

Grammar

October 24

AGENDA:

1. Monty Python's Argument Clinic: What is an argument?
2. Logical Fallacies - http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/fallacies.html
3. Logical Fallacy PPT and discuss


HW: Thesis due tomorrow in class; Review the logical fallacies we discussed today in class and prepare five examples that you understand relating to any logical fallacy and provide a personal example of each (you can not use any examples that we used in class today) and be prepared to discuss and share in class your examples as well as turn this in tomorrow. 



 





 Logical Fallacies

October 23

AGENDA:

1. Begin outlining your paper - thesis due in class on Friday
2. Go over Unit Test 
     Grammar, Julius Caesar, novels from Lit Circles, Heroes/Anti-Heroes/Tragic Heroes,   literary terms;  logical fallacies
3. Summary of Act 4 and 5
4. Vocabulary BINGO

HW: Literary Circles completed October 29; Literary Analysis due October 31; Vocabulary review on Friday; Unit Test Wednesday October 30; Critical Analysis rough drafts due in class on Monday printed out so we can begin editing and working with them.



To write a qualified argument/thesis/assertion, you must anticipate objections as well as misunderstanding to your assertion or position and recognize and respect the complexities of your topic. Always round back - why am I writing this and what am I trying to say?

Things to consider when writing your thesis and paper:
  What does this character struggle with? What evidence do you have? What insight into human nature might your characters offer the reader? Understanding the author's purpose is essential: why has he deliberately made the characters flawed and questionable? 
If you are looking at persuasion - there is so much of it going on - You need an organizing principle. Hone in on specific aspects of the play and use them to discuss the play as a whole. Consider these great, legendary men like Brutus and Caesar, who held them selves to be morally and physically superior to mere mortals, both were swayed by others and to their doom, no less. What do you make of that?
Key words are WHY and HOW?  

And for those of you absent - thesis = Although clause......., major assertion clause.......; therefore, call to action ........... . 

October 22

AGENDA:

1. Abstract ideas to concrete and their role in an argument/assertion/thesis
2. Brainstorm ideas for your papers - exit ticket
3. Literature circle #4

HW: Come to class tomorrow with evidence to back up your ideas, your inferences pertaining to the abstract idea you are most interested in arguing.

Ethos, Pathos, Logos video

October 21

AGENDA:

1. Literary term review - foil, hamartia, catharsis, denouement, epilogue, prologue, hubris, deux ex machine, synesthesia
2. Ethos, Pathos, Logos and Purpose
3. Sonnet 65 and writing assignment


HW: Read Sonnet 65 and annotate it - bring to class for discussion tomorrow as we brainstorm abstract ideas; Critical Analysis - Assignment: (draft due in class on Monday, October 28 - first draft.)

Shakespeare crafted a work, Julius Caesar, with no clear distinction between heroes and villains?  The author’s intent is in making his characters ambiguous. What statement(s) is he trying to make about human beings?

Sonnet 65A

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? O fearful meditation! where, alack, Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid? Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back? Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid? O, none, unless this miracle have might, That in black ink my love may still shine bright.

–William Shakespeare

 

 

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Brutus and Antony's Speech

October 18

AGENDA:

1. Journal Write using any 10 vocabulary words addressing this question:
In Julius Caesar, the movie, Caesar says that "we keep ourselves small and are not inspired." Do you agree? Why or why not? What does he mean?

2. Discuss the two speeches in small groups. How are they similar? How are they different? Which one is stronger? Why? What parts make one stronger than the other?
 
3. In what ways do politicians and advertisers use mob mentality and emotions to try and persuade you to do what they want? Which of the tactics that Brutus or/and Antony use in their funeral speech swayed you the most? Did you find yourself agreeing with one, both, or neither of them? Ethos, Pathos, Logos
 


HW; Literary Circles; Literary Analysis due October 31; review vocab; Speech handout due Monday

October 17

AGENDA:

1. Friends, Romans, Countrymen......
2. Read Act 3.2 



HW: Literary Analysis #2 due October 31; Read Act 3.3

		What does this scene do for the play? Why include it? ACT III SCENE III  A street. Enter CINNA the poet. CINNA THE POET  I dreamt to-night that I did feast with Caesar, And things unlucky charge my fantasy: I have no will to wander forth of doors, Yet something leads me forth. Enter Citizens. First Citizen  What is your name? Second Citizen  Whither are you going? Third Citizen  Where do you dwell? Fourth Citizen  Are you a married man or a bachelor? Second Citizen  Answer every man directly. First Citizen  Ay, and briefly. Fourth Citizen  Ay, and wisely. Third Citizen  Ay, and truly, you were best. CINNA THE POET  What is my name? Whither am I going? Where do I dwell? Am I a married man or a bachelor? Then, to answer every man directly and briefly, wisely and truly: wisely I say, I am a bachelor. Second Citizen  That's as much as to say, they are fools that marry: you'll bear me a bang for that, I fear. Proceed; directly. CINNA THE POET  Directly, I am going to Caesar's funeral. First Citizen  As a friend or an enemy? CINNA THE POET  As a friend. Second Citizen  That matter is answered directly. Fourth Citizen  For your dwelling,--briefly. CINNA THE POET  Briefly, I dwell by the Capitol. Third Citizen  Your name, sir, truly. CINNA THE POET  Truly, my name is Cinna. First Citizen  Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator. CINNA THE POET  I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet. Fourth Citizen  Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses. CINNA THE POET  I am not Cinna the conspirator. Fourth Citizen  It is no matter, his name's Cinna; pluck but his name out of his heart, and turn him going. Third Citizen  Tear him, tear him! Come, brands ho! fire-brands: to Brutus', to Cassius'; burn all: some to Decius' house, and some to Casca's; some to Ligarius': away, go! Exeunt

October 16

AGENDA:

1. Friends, Romans, Countrymen .....

October 15

AGENDA:

1. Friends, Roman's, Countrymen......
2. Literary Circles

October 14

AGENDA:

1. Seven greatest back stabs in history
2. Continue reading Act 3.1
3. Unleashing the Dogs of War!

HW: Find an example of synaesthesia in Antony's soliloquy for class tomorrow; Literary Circle tomorrow; moving recitations to Wednesday


SYNAESTHESIA: A rhetorical trope involving shifts in imagery It involves taking one type of sensory input (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) and co-mingling it with another separate sense in an impossible way. In the resulting figure of speech, we end up talking about how a color sounds, or how a smell looks. When we say a musician hits a "blue note" while playing a sad song, we engage in synaesthesia. When we talk about a certain shade of color as a "cool green," we mix tactile or thermal imagery with visual imagery the same way. When we talk about a "heavy silence," we also use synaesthesia.

October 11

AGENDA:

1. Vocabulary quiz
2. Watch Caesar's assassination
3. Follow the blood trail......


HW: Recitations begin on Tuesday; Literary analysis #2 due October 31 at midnight; Literary Circles continue on Tuesday




 






 

October 10

AGENDA:

1. "Girl" and writing analytically
2. Read Act 3.1

HW: vocabulary tomorrow; Friends, Romans, Countrymen.... Begin Tuesday 

October 9

AGENDA:

1. Although Brutus and Cassius both plot to assassinate Caesar, in what ways do you think their motives differ? Carefully consider your answer in one-two paragraphs.
2. Hero, Anti-hero, Tragic Hero PPT
3."Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid if time allows - analytical writing....


HW:  Recitations begin on Tuesday; Extra Credit on Friday; Vocab quiz on Friday; #2 Literary Analysis due October 31 by midnight.



Heroes and Anti-Heroes


Tragic Hero

October 4

AGENDA:

1. Turn in your worksheet
2. Watch Act 2.1 and discuss

HW: Read for literary circles

October 8

AGENDA:

1. Act 2.2
2. Literary Circles

HW: Vocab on Friday; recitations on Tuesday October 15; Read Act 2.3 and Act 2.4 for class tomorrow

Enter ARTEMIDORUS [reading a paper].	paper (A letter that Artemidorus has written.)
	ARTEMIDORUS
	"Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius;
	come not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna, trust not
	Trebonius: mark well Metellus Cimber: Decius Brutus
	loves thee not: thou hast wronged Caius Ligarius.
2.3.5	There is but one mind in all these men, and it is
	bent against Caesar. If thou beest not immortal,
	look about you: security gives way to conspiracy.
	The mighty gods defend thee!
	Thy lover,
2.3.10	ARTEMIDORUS."
	Here will I stand till Caesar pass along,
	And as a suitor will I give him this.
	My heart laments that virtue cannot live
	Out of the teeth of emulation.
2.3.15	If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayst live;
	If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.
	Exit

Act 2.4

Enter PORTIA and LUCIUS
	PORTIA
	I prithee, boy, run to the Senate-house;
	Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone.
	Why dost thou stay?
	LUCIUS
	To know my errand, madam.
	PORTIA
	I would have had thee there, and here again,
2.4.5	Ere I can tell thee what thou shouldst do there.—
	O constancy, be strong upon my side,
	Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!
	I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.
	How hard it is for women to keep counsel!
2.4.10	Art thou here yet?
	LUCIUS
	Madam, what should I do?
	Run to the Capitol, and nothing else?
	And so return to you, and nothing else?
	PORTIA
	Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well,
	For he went sickly forth: and take good note
2.4.15	What Caesar doth, what suitors press to him.
	Hark, boy! what noise is that?
	LUCIUS
	I hear none, madam.
	PORTIA
	Prithee, listen well;
	I heard a bustling rumour, like a fray,
	And the wind brings it from the Capitol.
	LUCIUS
2.4.20	Sooth, madam, I hear nothing.
	Enter the Soothsayer.
	PORTIA
	Come hither, fellow; which way hast thou been?
	Soothsayer
	At mine own house, good lady.
	PORTIA
	What is't o'clock?
	Soothsayer
	About the ninth hour, lady.
	PORTIA
	Is Caesar yet gone to the Capitol?
	Soothsayer
2.4.25	Madam, not yet; I go to take my stand,
	To see him pass on to the Capitol.
	PORTIA
	Thou hast some suit to Caesar, hast thou not?
	Soothsayer
	That I have, lady: if it will please Caesar
	To be so good to Caesar as to hear me,
2.4.30	I shall beseech him to befriend himself.
	PORTIA
	Why, know'st thou any harm's intended towards him?
	Soothsayer
	None that I know will be, much that I fear may chance.
	Good morrow to you. Here the street is narrow;
	The throng that follows Caesar at the heels,
2.4.35	Of senators, of praetors, common suitors,
	Will crowd a feeble man almost to death:
	I'll get me to a place more void, and there
	Speak to great Caesar as he comes along.
	Exit [Soothsayer].
	PORTIA
	I must go in. Ay me, how weak a thing
2.4.40	The heart of woman is! O Brutus,
	The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!
	Sure, the boy heard me: Brutus hath a suit
	That Caesar will not grant. O, I grow faint.
	Run, Lucius, and commend me to my lord;
2.4.45	Say I am merry. Come to me again,
	And bring me word what he doth say to thee.
	Exeunt [severally].

October 3

AGENDA:

1. Write a critical analysis examining Cassius' speech to Brutus Act 1.2
2. Understanding Shakespeare language 

HW: Understanding Shakespeare's language due at beginning of class tomorrow; speeches begin on October 15 in class.

October 2

AGENDA:

1. Discuss Act 1.2
2. Mean Girls Clip - allusion to JC
3. Act 1.3


HW: Memorization beginning October 15; Complete Act 1.3 tonight and know Act 1.

October 1

Agenda:

1. Review Act 1.1 
2. Begin Act 1.2
3. Literary circles

HW: Read Act 1.2 tonight take active reading notes for discussion tomorrow in class. You  may or may not turn this in depending on class discussion. Recitations begin October 15


BRUTUS
Another general shout!
I do believe that these applauses are
For some new honours that are heap'd on Caesar.
CASSIUS
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Now, in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!
Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!
When went there by an age, since the great flood,
But it was famed with more than with one man?
When could they say till now, that talk'd of Rome,
That her wide walls encompass'd but one man?
Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,
When there is in it but one only man.
O, you and I have heard our fathers say,
There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd
The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
As easily as a king.
BRUTUS
That you do love me, I am nothing jealous;
What you would work me to, I have some aim:
How I have thought of this and of these times,
I shall recount hereafter; for this present,
I would not, so with love I might entreat you,
Be any further moved. What you have said
I will consider; what you have to say
I will with patience hear, and find a time
Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this:
Brutus had rather be a villager
Than to repute himself a son of Rome
Under these hard conditions as this time
Is like to lay upon us.
CASSIUS
I am glad that my weak words
Have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus.
BRUTUS
The games are done and Caesar is returning.
CASSIUS
As they pass by, pluck Casca by the sleeve;
And he will, after his sour fashion, tell you
What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.
Re-enter CAESAR and his Train
BRUTUS
I will do so. But, look you, Cassius,
The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow,
And all the rest look like a chidden train:
Calpurnia's cheek is pale; and Cicero
Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes
As we have seen him in the Capitol,
Being cross'd in conference by some senators.
CASSIUS
Casca will tell us what the matter is.
CAESAR
Antonius!
ANTONY
Caesar?
CAESAR
Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
ANTONY
Fear him not, Caesar; he's not dangerous;
He is a noble Roman and well given.
CAESAR
Would he were fatter! But I fear him not:
Yet if my name were liable to fear,
I do not know the man I should avoid
So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much;
He is a great observer and he looks
Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,
As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music;
Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort
As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit
That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Such men as he be never at heart's ease
Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,
And therefore are they very dangerous.
I rather tell thee what is to be fear'd
Than what I fear; for always I am Caesar.
Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf,
And tell me truly what thou think'st of him.
Sennet. Exeunt CAESAR and all his Train, but CASCA
CASCA
You pull'd me by the cloak; would you speak with me?
BRUTUS
Ay, Casca; tell us what hath chanced to-day,
That Caesar looks so sad.
CASCA
Why, you were with him, were you not?
BRUTUS
I should not then ask Casca what had chanced.
CASCA
Why, there was a crown offered him: and being
offered him, he put it by with the back of his hand,
thus; and then the people fell a-shouting.
BRUTUS
What was the second noise for?
CASCA
Why, for that too.
CASSIUS
They shouted thrice: what was the last cry for?
CASCA
Why, for that too.
BRUTUS
Was the crown offered him thrice?
CASCA
Ay, marry, was't, and he put it by thrice, every
time gentler than other, and at every putting-by
mine honest neighbours shouted.
CASSIUS
Who offered him the crown?
CASCA
Why, Antony.
BRUTUS
Tell us the manner of it, gentle Casca.
CASCA
I can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it:
it was mere foolery; I did not mark it. I saw Mark
Antony offer him a crown;--yet 'twas not a crown
neither, 'twas one of these coronets;--and, as I told
you, he put it by once: but, for all that, to my
thinking, he would fain have had it. Then he
offered it to him again; then he put it by again:
but, to my thinking, he was very loath to lay his
fingers off it. And then he offered it the third
time; he put it the third time by: and still as he
refused it, the rabblement hooted and clapped their
chapped hands and threw up their sweaty night-caps
and uttered such a deal of stinking breath because
Caesar refused the crown that it had almost choked
Caesar; for he swounded and fell down at it: and
for mine own part, I durst not laugh, for fear of
opening my lips and receiving the bad air.
CASSIUS
But, soft, I pray you: what, did Caesar swound?
CASCA
He fell down in the market-place, and foamed at
mouth, and was speechless.
BRUTUS
'Tis very like: he hath the failing sickness.
CASSIUS
No, Caesar hath it not; but you and I,
And honest Casca, we have the falling sickness.
CASCA
I know not what you mean by that; but, I am sure,
Caesar fell down. If the tag-rag people did not
clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and
displeased them, as they use to do the players in
the theatre, I am no true man.
BRUTUS
What said he when he came unto himself?
CASCA
Marry, before he fell down, when he perceived the
common herd was glad he refused the crown, he
plucked me ope his doublet and offered them his
throat to cut. An I had been a man of any
occupation, if I would not have taken him at a word,
I would I might go to hell among the rogues. And so
he fell. When he came to himself again, he said,
If he had done or said any thing amiss, he desired
their worships to think it was his infirmity. Three
or four wenches, where I stood, cried 'Alas, good
soul!' and forgave him with all their hearts: but
there's no heed to be taken of them; if Caesar had
stabbed their mothers, they would have done no less.
BRUTUS
And after that, he came, thus sad, away?
CASCA
Ay.
CASSIUS
Did Cicero say any thing?
CASCA
Ay, he spoke Greek.
CASSIUS
To what effect?
CASCA
Nay, an I tell you that, Ill ne'er look you i' the
face again: but those that understood him smiled at
one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own
part, it was Greek to me. I could tell you more
news too: Marullus and Flavius, for pulling scarfs
off Caesar's images, are put to silence. Fare you
well. There was more foolery yet, if I could
remember it.
CASSIUS
Will you sup with me to-night, Casca?
CASCA
No, I am promised forth.
CASSIUS
Will you dine with me to-morrow?
CASCA
Ay, if I be alive and your mind hold and your dinner
worth the eating.
CASSIUS
Good: I will expect you.
CASCA
Do so. Farewell, both.
Exit
BRUTUS
What a blunt fellow is this grown to be!
He was quick mettle when he went to school.
CASSIUS
So is he now in execution
Of any bold or noble enterprise,
However he puts on this tardy form.
This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
Which gives men stomach to digest his words
With better appetite.
BRUTUS
And so it is. For this time I will leave you:
To-morrow, if you please to speak with me,
I will come home to you; or, if you will,
Come home to me, and I will wait for you.
CASSIUS
I will do so: till then, think of the world.

Exit BRUTUS

Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet, I see,
Thy honourable metal may be wrought
From that it is disposed: therefore it is meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes;
For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
Caesar doth bear me hard; but he loves Brutus:
If I were Brutus now and he were Cassius,
He should not humour me. I will this night,
In several hands, in at his windows throw,
As if they came from several citizens,
Writings all tending to the great opinion
That Rome holds of his name; wherein obscurely
Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at:
And after this let Caesar seat him sure;
For we will shake him, or worse days endure.
Exit