Title – Julius Caesar

By – Melissa Borghorst; Eric Kilmer; Tonyia Jenkins; Consuela Pender; April Gilliam; Cheryl Dickson; Robert Vickery

Subject – Language Arts, Multidisciplinary

Grade Level – 9-12

Here’s some ideas for activities on Julius Caesar that could be presented as options for your class:

1. Design a memo or email message from the soothsayer to Julius Caesar.

2. Design a fax message from Artimedorus to Julius Caesar.

3. Design a fake web page for Julius Caesar.

4. Design a fake web page for the conspirators.

5. Write a scene that is not in the play, like a conversation between Portia and Brutus, where he tells her his plan to kill Caesar.

6. Draw a comic strip of one scene.

7. Write a letter to Brutus with good opinions of him.

8. Make a bulleted list of Cassius’s plan to convince Brutus to join the conspiracy.

9. Make a three-column list of who is for, against, and undecided.

10. Describe Antony before and after Caesar’s death.

11. Write a resume of a conspirator.

12. Develop an armed forces ad, recruiting conspirators.

13. Write Caesar’s will.

14. Compare and contrast Brutus and Antony’s speeches.

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