The 6th grade class has been acting out and working through The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. The students are utilizing their understanding of plot and conflict to analyze the development of Shakespeare’s telling of the events surrounding Julius Caesar’s death, as well as breaking down metaphors that Shakespeare uses to describe characters, their actions and motivation.
On Monday afternoon, the students worked in small groups to act out the scene where the conspirators advance on and kill Julius Caesar. The students took the original scene and changed the dialogue in fun and interesting ways, spoofing the original. One group used the framework of Scooby Doo, another made it a western. Each group used their understanding of the scene to craft the new scene. In the play, Brutus states, “How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport,” and the reader almost has to chuckle at Shakespeare’s own thoughts of this play being acted out over and over. The students enjoyed this little line tucked into such a serious scene, and they remarked how he had bled “in sport” at least four times on Monday.
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