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Mrs. Hawkins - 10th Grade Literature
Julius Caesar
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Literature
10th Grade
03/25/2013

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William Shakespeare was born in __________ England in the year ______.
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Stratford; 1564
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William Shakespeare wrote ______ sonnets during his lifetime.
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154
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Many of Shakespeare's plays were performed in the _______ Theater by his own acting company called the _______________.
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Globe; the Chamerlain's Men
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Shakespeare's plays, as well as all other plays of the Elizabethan theater, were performed during the day, mostly in the afternoon, because ___________________.
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they required sunlight
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Shakespeare is considered probably the greatest literary genius of all time. He died in ________.
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1616
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Portia's father
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Cato
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The first person to stab Caesar
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Casca
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Was the "noblest Roman of them all"
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Brutus
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Was "given to sports, wildness, and much company"
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Antony
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Spoke to the assembly in Greek; would "never follow anything that other men begin."
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Cicero
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This Epicurean was "much condemned to have an itching palm."
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Cassius
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convinced Brutus to join the conspiracy
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Cassius
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tried to warn Caesar of the conspiracy
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Artimedoras
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offered Caesar a crown
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Mark Antony
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Caesar's wife
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Calpurnia
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Caesar's nephew and heir
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Octavius
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poet mistaken for a conspirator
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Cinna
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servant to Cassius
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Pindarus
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Brutus's wife
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Portia
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chosen to lead Caesar to the Senate
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Decius Brutus
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Brutus was a _______.
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stoic
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Cassius was an __________.
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Epicurean
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When are the "ides of March"?
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March 15
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Where does final battle take place?
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Phillipi
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Define elliptical clause
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an adverb clause in which essential parts have been omitted
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Define subordinating conjunctions
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introduce adverb clauses
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Define infinitive
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only verbal that works as an adverb
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Review Exercises:

p. 191-192 Ex. A

p. 197 D

p. 198 F

p. 198 G

Diagrams p. 184 #4 & 186 #4

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