This engaging and informative lesson aims to improve students’ understanding of the context of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Some of the primary areas of the historical context that are explored are William Shakespeare himself, life at the end of the Elizabethan era, and the life and times of Julius Caesar (and the parallels between the Roman and Elizabethan periods).
Through the comprehensive slideshow, learners are guided on the following learning journey:
- Understanding who William Shakespeare was, and remembering key details about his life;
- Identifying words and phrases that he coined that are still in use today;
- Understanding the events and prevailing ideas in existence at the end of Elizabeth I’s reign;
- Taking part in a quiz about the some of the basic key events and ideas of the time;
- Researching the key events of Julius Caesar’s life (particularly the parts pertinent to the play, e.g. his assassination, his acquaintances, etc.);
- Utilising speaking and listening skills in order to communicate gathered knowledge, and obtain knowledge from others.
- Evaluating the learning in the lesson.
The lesson includes a colourful and detailed PowerPoint presentation, and the well-structured research template - provided in both Word (to allow editing) and PDF (to protect formatting) versions.
All images in this resource are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the lesson presentation.
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Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare - Lesson Bundle!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of William Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the play, understanding the writer’s ideas within the play, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Shakespeare’s language devices. The lessons included are: -Understanding Historical Context; -Act 1 Scene 1 - The Play Opening; -Act 1 Scene 2 - The Feast of Lupercal; -Act 3 Scene 1 - The Assassination Scene; -Act 3 Scene 2 - Mark Antony's Speech; -Act 4 Scene 3 - The Ghost of Caesar; -Act 5 Scene 5 - Brutus: The Tragic Hero. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources and worksheets are all provided as both Word and PDF files (remember to look inside the zip files).
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Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare - Big Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE JULIUS CAESAR LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION ACTIVITY BOOKLET, AND THE JULIUS CAESAR KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER! This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of William Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the play, understanding the writer’s ideas within the play, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Shakespeare’s language devices. Included is: Julius Caesar Knowledge Organiser Julius Caesar Comprehension Bundle ...and the lessons... -Understanding Historical Context; -Act 1 Scene 1 - The Play Opening; -Act 1 Scene 2 - The Feast of Lupercal; -Act 3 Scene 1 - The Assassination Scene; -Act 3 Scene 2 - Mark Antony’s Speech; -Act 4 Scene 3 - The Ghost of Caesar; -Act 5 Scene 5 - Brutus: The Tragic Hero. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: Engaging Defining/ Understanding Identifying/Remembering Analysing/ Creating Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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