Day 74: 27 April 2012

1. Practiced the comma patterns

• three sentences each with different conjunctions
• 4 points each

2. Notes to prep the rest of the scene.

• Portia dies twice
• Military disagreement--home or away
• paranormal activity

3. Listen to the scene

4. List 10 instances of Brutus' failure so far in the play.

Day 73: 26 April 2012

1. Prep Brutus' argument with Cassius

• Brutus is mad that Cassius is selling offices for money and (strangely) angry that Cassius has not sent Brutus the money that he has asked for.

2. Listened to the scene.

3. Notes

https://docs.google.com/a/oconeeschools.org/document/d/1II_JbOlsmC-7r70ycvyJR98ACWZ8av_R6ITuevuwxkM/edit

4. 

Day 72: 25 April 2012

1. Notes Mark Antony's objectives in VI, i

• negotiates a hit-list to solidify his power
• establishes a pecking order in the 2nd Triumvirate
• figures out how to take some money from Caesar's will 
• writes Lepidus off as a tool

2. Listened to the scene

3. Lab time to complete the following:

https://docs.google.com/a/oconeeschools.org/document/d/1mm5v9Xm9YUHHP_355vURFLYXI15wM4Kse7KlVSvu71w/edit

3rd block: 

•  1/2 of the research sheet in 30 minutes at the beginning of the block
• listened to the scene and took notes
• Did  a preliminary thesis and bulleted outline for Mark Antony's transformation from Frat-boy to Mafia Don

Day 71: 24 April 2012

1. Time to revise/re-write the paragraph in a final draft.
2. Group-work (my choice of partner)

Initial comments about class tension.

Groups will find 10 words or descriptions (total for both) of the commoners from the following two sources:

• I, i: Flavius and Marullus  (694-95)
• I, ii: Casca's comments (704)

Groups will find 5 words, expectations or approaches from 739, top 745, and 747

3. Some basic notes on class structure

• The upper class, with the exception of Brutus and (possibly) Caesar, treat the poor patronizingly and look act as though they should "know their place)
• Brutus and Caesar both look in their own ways to help the poor out, Brutus by establishing a Commonwealth and Caesar through his will. The irony here is that Brutus and Caesar essentially take each other out and leave the poor at the mercy of people like Antony.

4. As individuals, explain the basic concept back to me in your own words.

The balance of the time will be for those who have not finished their paragraphs.

Day 70: 23 April 2012

1. Time to finish the questions from Friday.
2. Paragraph why Antony is ultimately more successful than Brutus in swaying the people.

Prepped with some notes.n First Draft.

https://docs.google.com/a/oconeeschools.org/file/d/0B_CqpmMQoSLBWVNtSHF4SmRSbWF6MkRXZ1M5QUpCUQ/edit

Day 69: 20 April 2012

1. Time to complete the questions from yesterday.
2. Prep for the next section of Antony's speech.
3. Read and notes.
4. Second set of questions:

• How does Antony get the crowd’s attention in 120-39?
• What is the meaning of the word “issue” in line 139?
• Which appeal is most prominent in 142-48? Explain using examples.
• What intentional “mistake” does Antony pretend to make in 142-48?
• What course of action does he suggest in 151-154 using reverse psychology?
• How does he know his plan is working after 151-154?
• Why does he bring the crowd around the body? (no text needed)
• What role reversal takes place in 159-162? Why does he do this?
• How does he use an emotional appeal in the first twenty-one lines of the 172-200?
• What important change does Antony make in how he talks about the conspirators 172-200?
• Why does he have to restrain the crowd in the 209? Why doesn’t he just let them go? (no text)
• Why does he have to remind them of the will in the 238-41? (no text)
• Why do the contents of the will exonerate Caesar (make him look innocent) from the charge of ambition and greed?
• How does the crowd react to the will and what do they plan to do?
• How do we know that Antony had it planned the whole time?

5. Paragraph why Antony is ultimately more successful than Brutus in swaying the people.

https://docs.google.com/a/oconeeschools.org/file/d/0B_CqpmMQoSLBWVNtSHF4SmRSbWF6MkRXZ1M5QUpCUQ/edit

Day 68: 19 April 2012

1. Reminder of Brutus' mistakes to the people of Rome

• talks over their heads (big words and complicated sentences)
• doesn't hang around for the funeral
• fails to deliver concrete proof
• doesn't tailor his speech to his audience

2. 150-word Journal: Given Brutus' mistakes, how can Mark Anthony take advantage of Brutus' weaknesses and talk to the people in a more accessible way?

3. Read the first section of Mark Antony's speech silently.

4. Reading the speech out-loud and giving notes.

In his first section of his speech, Mark Antony

• Verse-chorus structure (like the one in pop, rap, and country songs) reminds the people of his message and gives them a hook. Verse contains the content (proof) the chorus has the message (sarcastically calling Brutus and the rest honorable)
• Uses much simpler constructions. Consider the following: Brutus: "Hear me for my cause and be silent that you may hear" Antony: "Lend me your ears."
• Alternates emotion ("he was my friend") with logic ("he hath brought...ransoms" that filled the "general coffers"). 
• Eventually succeeds in making the people use "Logic" for "Emotion" when he is fake-crying over the coffin and one of the people looks up and says "Methinks there is much reason in his sayings."
• Shakespeare sees to making comment about the gullibility of the common people in that same way that much of the advertising is aimed at the uneducated.

5. Answer the following questions with text:

• How are Mark Antony’s opening words a subtle attack on Brutus?
• What is contradictory about line 76?
• What does Antony have to say about the how we remember good or evil in a person?
• To what end does he repeat lines 84-85?
• What does he say of Caesar in lines 86-99? What purpose do they serve in the speech?
• In lines 102-103, how does he place himself in direct opposition to Brutus?
• What is the appeal of lines 104-105? Explain.
• How does he turn emotion into logic in 106-107?
• Why does he pause in lines 107-109? What is he trying to figure out about the crowd?

Day 67: 18 April 2012

1. Reminder: Logical, Emotional and Ethical appeals

2. Discussion on what we know of the people in crowd

• Brutus' comments about their current emotional state
• Casca's comments about how they acted at the games--when Caesar was offered the crown
• Flavius and Marullius' comments and their reaction.
• Emotion (shame) works on them

3. Answer the following questions.
https://docs.google.com/a/oconeeschools.org/document/d/13LWeDmlYd7UMnvC6zoDffVSYkh5IkB60QFQfqs2aKPM/edit

• Brutus makes a few major mistakes: 1) he talks over their heads 2)he fails to present any concrete evidence 3) he doesn't stay for the rest of the funeral and 4) he doesn't give them anything to do to establish the commonwealth--leaves them with energy and nowhere to go.

4. Make 5 specific statements to Brutus about how to change his speech to be more accessible to the people he is talking to.

https://docs.google.com/a/oconeeschools.org/document/d/1CvpAGFIOTsA_8Vk6tIWbvbpR2i8eXq-9v05Uorlmnm0/edit

Day 66: 17 April 2012

How do we adjust message to audience?

Apply the rhetorical triangle the following situations. Assume that you are the speaker. How do you adjust how you talk about your message the message differently given your audience?

Situation 1

Context/Situation: You got into UGA.
Message: Expressing gratitude, thinking about ways to pay for your education
Audience (s):

• Mom, Dad, Friend, Wealthy Grandmother, UGA Admissions officer in a thank-you note.

Situation 2

Context/Situation: Panama wasn't kind to you. You need someone to bail you out of jail. Charge: breaking curfew and loitering.
Message: Get me out of here.

Audience (s):

• Mom, Dad, Friend, Grandmother, Arresting Officer

Brutus Eulogy for Caesar

Discuss the context for the speech.

List 5 things that you know about what is happening.

Optional:

• List 5 ways that you expect Brutus to talk to the people. What does he need to say given the situation?

3. Listen to Brutus' speech to the people.

• discuss the positioning of Brutus to the people.

4. How is the speech different than what you expected.

Day 65: 16 April 2012

How are Brutus and Mark Antony different?

1. Reminders of Julius Caesar

• What do the people know about Caesar's guilt or innocence? What have they seen? What should they know? (While the people respect Brutus, they love Caesar. Also they are very prone to changing their minds.
• What do we know about Brutus?
• What do we know about Mark Antony so far?

2. Prepped the scene

• Rhetorical triangle for the scene.
• Brutus' egalitarianism works against him here because he is going to assume MA is a man of his word and that the people will see reason
• MA asks to speak immediately following Caesar's death. Basically Brutus is going to put a gun in his hand.

3. Listened to the scene.

4. Gathered 5 things that MA says to the conspirators and 5 promises that he makes to Caesar's body.

5. Write a paragraph about how Brutus underestimates/misunderstands Mark Antony.

• use at least 2 pieces of text.

Day 64: 05 April 2012

1. Prep III, i
2. Listened to the first part of the scene (through Anthony's servant)
3. Chart 7 or 8 bits of evidence for Caesar's guilt and 7 or 8 for his innocence.

• bullets
• page numbers
• Public/private

Day 63: 04 April 2012

1. Brief review of Caesar and Calpurnia's scene.

2. Chart

https://docs.google.com/a/oconeeschools.org/document/d/1Nnwrs3xSoTRFR-vvZT8vkV0nnS4-y-vYvucKqGzMYgk/edit

Day 62: 03 April 2012

1. Write 3 sentences for each of the major patterns. Open notes.
2. Listen to/ read II, ii (726-31).
3. Answer the following questions with woven text.

• Describe 3 warnings that Caesar should have given more attention.
• How is Caesar's request of the augurers and response to them ironic?
• Describe 5 ways that Calpurnia treats Caesar. How successful is she?
• Compare at least 2 aspects of Calpurnia and Portia's argument strategies with their husbands.

Day 61: 02 April 2012

1. Journal about what women know about men or on how you would approach a person who was angry. (150 words).
2. Prep notes for Portia's talking to Brutus.

I. Shakespeare stops the rhythm of the play to present the private faces of the protagonist and the antagonist. with their wives.
II. Brutus and Portia

• what we know of Brutus
• the basics on Portia.

III. This might have been Brutus' last chance for an objective second opinion.

3. Listened to the scene

4. Made 7 statements about how Portia treats her husband and backed them up with text.

Day 60: 30 March 2012

1. Break the following list of words into syllables:

benefactor

antebellum

impotence

interception

bellicose

mortify

immortal

potentate

evacuation

fortify

Deconstructions:
Bibliography
Incredible
Microscopic
sanctify
incomprehensible
inconspicuous
question
monument
petition
consumption

2. Choose 10 of the words and identify all the roots and meanings.
3. Write 10 sentences which use the words properly and give context clues to the word's meaning.

Day 59: 29 March 2012

1. Choose 5 claims from the Schlosser article.

• make a statement about how he uses the claim to support his argument

2, Verify the claim independantly with a reliable internet source. (2nd half in the lab).

Day 58: 28 March 2012

TBA