11/7/16 Monday Agenda

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Collect LAL Lesson 5 Papers from Friday-Review student responsibilities for the LAL that is due on Thursday (YES, THIS THURSDAY 11/10/16)

Letters About Literature Directions/Guidelines

Review Act IV scene 1

Read Act IV scene 2 in class-answer questions

HW=
1. Read Act IV scene 3 and answer study questions.
ACT IV
Scene i
1. What three men make up the new triumvirate?
2. What are they doing as the scene opens?
3. What opinion does Antony have of Lepidus?
Scene ii
1. Where does this scene take place?
2. What feelings exist between Brutus and Cassius?
Scene iii
1. What are the reasons behind the quarrel between Brutus and Cassius?
2. How does the quarrel end?
3. What has happened to Portia?
4. Why does Cassius want to be on the defensive and wait to be attacked where they
are camped?
5. What is Brutus' reason for wanting to take the offensive and march to Philippi?
6. Which strategy is decided upon? Why?
7. Why does Brutus have Varro and Claudius sleep in his tent?
8. What premonition does Brutus have of his death?
9. What "visitor" does Brutus have in the night? What warning does he receive? 
2. Memorize Speech-3 lines per night

Speech: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(from Julius Caesar, spoken by Marc Antony) 
Act 3 scene 2
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men–
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,

And I must pause till it come back to me.

3. Read your LC text and work on your LC task for this week. LAL LC assignment is due on Thursday 11/10/16.  Begin brainstorming about to whom you will be writing your Letter About Literature.