Julius Caesar Teaching Resources

I can’t help it; I love William Shakespeare. =) And, believe it or not, most of my students do, too!

Julius Caesar is on the curriculum in my district for tenth-graders, and although analysis of the play with all its five acts is a time-consuming process, it’s an enjoyable one, as well. They really love analyzing the betrayal and revenge, and they always have some, shall we say, lively discussions on the issue of suicide. And there’s always a great debate as to whether Caesar or Brutus is the protagonist of the play.

In the last few years, I’ve had my students reading along with a CD of the play rather than taking parts and reading it aloud as I used to do. This takes less time, of course, and I feel that it’s beneficial for my students because the actors’ readings help to get across the meaning of the play, so that the sixteenth-century language doesn’t get in the way of their understanding quite as much. I pause the CD after most scenes, and we discuss the plot, characters, conflict, etc., using the study questions I give them as a guide.

The anticipation guide I use focuses on students’ prior knowledge of the issues involved in the play. Each act’s study questions are listed according to scene, and each act’s quiz is composed of fill-in-the-blank statements drawn from the study questions. In the memorization activity, students memorize lines from Antony’s funeral speech, and in the character-description / quote-practice activity, students have to find quotes from the play that characterize a number of characters. I have the final test in either an InDesign file, and as soon as I am able, I will convert it into a Word file or a Word file that I will e-mail you if you contact me.

Available Teaching Materials

• Anticipation Guide – Word File
  

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• Act I Study Questions – Word File
  

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• Act I Quiz – Word File (not available for download)
  

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• Act II Study Questions – Word File
  

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• Act II Quiz – Word File (not available for download)
  

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• Act III Study Questions – Word File
  

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• Act III Quiz – 25 questions – Word File (not available for download)
  

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• Act III Quiz – 20 questions – Word File (not available for download)
  

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• Act IV Study Questions – Word File
  

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• Act IV Quiz – Word File (not available for download)
  

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• Act V Study Questions – Word File
  

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• Act V Quiz – Word File (not available for download)
  

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• Memorization – Word File
  

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• Iambic Pentameter – Word File
  

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• Tragic Hero – Word File
  

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• Character Description/Quote Practice – Word File
  

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• Reconstructing Blank Verse – Word File
  

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• Unit Test – Word File & InDesign File (not available for download)
  

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Send me a message if you are a teacher who’d like copies of my quizzes or tests. I want to share, but I have to keep quizzes and tests secure. :) Please include the name of your school and/or district, your school e-mail address, and the title you’re interested in.

Unless otherwise noted, my teaching resources are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License, which allows you to share and remix the works noncommercially, as long as all alterations or transformations are redistributed under the same or a similar license. Attribution is a part of this license; however, unless otherwise noted, I do not require any attribution for these materials.

Updates

• 4/10/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher in the Rootstown Local School District in Rootstown, Ohio.
• 5/1/08 :: Added Reconstructing Blank Verse worksheet. 5/2/08 :: This is down already. :( I’m working on it… 5/9/08 :: Fixed it up again! :)
• 5/2/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher in Lee County Schools in Tupelo, Mississippi.
• 5/8/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes to a teacher in Lafourche Parish Public Schools in Thibodaux, Louisiana, and a teacher at Rockingham County High School in Wentworth, North Carolina.
• 5/9/08 :: Added Iambic Pentameter worksheet and Tragic Hero worksheet. Finally reformatted Unit Test from InDesign to Word!!
• 5/12/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes to a teacher in Pender County Schools in Rocky Point, North Carolina, and a teacher at Holy Redeemer School in College Park, Maryland.
• 5/15/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher at Buckeye Valley High School in Delaware, Ohio.
• 5/20/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher in Baldwin County Public Schools in Bay Minette, Alabama.
• 5/21/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher in San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District in San Marcos, Texas.
• 5/28/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher in theYoungstown City Schools in Youngstown, Ohio.
• 6/10/08 :: Sent Caesar unit test to a teacher in Kenowa Hills Public Schools in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
• 6/11/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher at Bradford High School in Bradford, Tennessee.
• 6/28/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher in the Bismarck Public School District in Bismarck, North Dakota.
• 8/21/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to two fellow teacher in the Danville Public Schools in Danville, Virginia.
• 9/2/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher at Bishop Ryan Catholic Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• 9/15/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher at Hillsborough High School in Hillsborough, New Jersey.
• 10/4/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher in the Minot Public School District in Minot, North Dakota.
• 10/27/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher in the Sevier County Schools in Sevierville, Tennessee.
• 10/27/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher at Central High School in Victoria, Virginia.
• 10/27/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher in the Columbia County Schools in Evans, Georgia.
• 10/27/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes to a teacher in the Ottawa-Carleton District School in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• 11/5/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher in the Decatur High School in Decatur, Arkansas.
• 11/10/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher in the Chatham Central School District in Chatham, New York.
• 11/15/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher at Riverside Academy in Reserve, Louisiana.
• 11/23/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher at Father Lopez High School in Daytona Beach, Florida.
• 11/29/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher at Falmouth High School in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
• 11/29/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes to a teacher with YesPrep Public Schools in Houston, Texas.
• 12/1/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher at Bronx Aerospace High School in Bronx, New York.
• 12/10/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher at Heritage High School in Rockdale County, Georgia.
• 12/10/08 :: Sent Caesar unit test to a teacher at Anthony Wayne High School in Whitehouse, Ohio.
• 12/22/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher at Southwest Dekalb High School in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 12/22/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a student teacher at University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
• 12/23/08 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher at Welsh High School in Welsh, Louisiana.
• 1/6/09 :: Updated coding of two files that were not downloadable: Character Description/Quote Practice and Reconstructing Blank Verse, thanks to Tim in Canada. =)
• 1/11/09 :: Sent Caesar unit test to a teacher at Two Hills School in the town of Two Hills, Alberta, Canada.
• 1/11/09 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher at Porter Creek Secondary School in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada.
• 1/11/09 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher in the Milwaukee Public Schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• 1/12/09 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher in the Lemont High School in Lemont, Il.
• 1/18/09 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher at Immaculata Academy in Hamburg, New York.
• 1/18/09 :: Sent Caesar quizzes and unit test to a teacher at Germantown High School in Germantown, Wisconsin.
• 1/24/09 :: Added public domain picture, photoshopped with a dry pastels filter.

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Most of my teaching resources are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. If you’re not sure, don’t hesitate to ask me. :-)

Send me a message if you are a teacher who would like copies of my quizzes or tests. Please include the name of your school and/or district, your school e-mail address, and the title you are interested in. All secure materials are shared with the expectation that they will be kept secure and not redistributed or otherwise shared.

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