November 20, 2014

Objective:  I can explain how Shakespeare uses figurative language to suggest Brutus’s justification to assassinate Caesar.

Bell:  List the poetic devices that were defined on Nov. 10th and Nov. 11th.

Activities:

1.  Identify the simile in Brutus’s soliloquy and explain how Brutus uses it to justify the assassination of Caesar.

2.  Share Out:  Focus–“serpent’s egg”

3.  Teacher models how to summarize Chunk #3.

4.  Think Pair/Share:  Students will identify and explain how two metaphors and another poetic device is used by Brutus to justify his argument after completing the left column of the double entry journal.