Introduction

Essential Question: Are the qualities of being a good leader based on a universal understanding or is leadership based on the expectations of a culture?

The Roman general Julius Caesar was a real person who transformed Rome into a great Roman Empire. He lived 100 BC to 44 BC, and just a year before his death, Caesar was named dictator for life and called Father of his Country. Then, in a tragic turn, Caesar was betrayed and assassinated by people he believed to be friends.

Plutarch was a Greek historian who lived from AD 46 to AD 120. He wrote biographies on famous Greek and Roman men. Shakespeare based his play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar from Plutarch’s book Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans.

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Are you ready for some drama? If so, you are going to love The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Look at the pictures below to see some of the exciting events that will happen in the play.

Meteors hurtling through the sky. Lions pacing through the city.
night sky lion

 

 

 

A psychic spouting out omens. Conspirators plotting to kill a leader.
a psychic scene from Julius Caesar

Murderers bathing their arms in the victim's blood.
bloody hand print

Watch Julius Caesar: Act 1 (4:59) to learn about Act 1.

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Lesson Objectives

Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to:

  • Detect and label iambic pentameter, rhyme, and couplet.
  • Find examples of imagery and explain their function.
  • Use the text to support ideas.

The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: English Language Arts, Grade 10 objectives: 1, 4, 9, 21c, 41, and 41a.

 

 

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