English 10 Honors
Ms. Cable
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JC – (Act IV) – Critical Reading
1. Triumvirate
2. “These men then shall die, their names are prick’d.”
3. Examples of Antony’s ambition
4. Insults
5. Treatment of Lepidus
6. “Let us do so, for we are at the stake, and bay’d about with many enemeies; And
some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.”
7. Why Cassius is mad at Brutus?
8. Why Brutus is mad at Cassius (2 reasons) - “Let me tell you, Cassius, you
yourself are much condemn’d to have an itching palm.
9. “You know that you are Brutus that speaks this, or, by the gods, this speech were
else your last.”
10. “Remember March, the ides of March remember. Did not great Julius bleed for
justice’ sake? …shall we now contaminate our fingers with base bribes and sell
the might space of our large honors… I had rather be a dog, and bay at the moon,
than such a Roman.”
11. “Strike, as thou didst at Caesar, for I know, when thou didst hate him worst, thou
lovedst him better than ever thou lovedst Cassius.”
12. Comic Relief
13. News of Portia
14. Opinion of Cassius on marching to Philippi
15. Opinion of Brutus on marching Philippi
16. Final decision on marching
17. “To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi.”
JC – (Act V) – Critical Reading
1. Many insults throughout
2. “Their bloody sign of battle is hung out, and something to be done immediately.”
3. When does Antony say they should give sign of battle?
4. How many times Caesar was stabbed
5. Bird omens
6. “But this same day must end that work the ides of march begun.”
7. Job of Titinius
8. Job of Pindarus
9. What Pindarus sees
10. What happens to Cassius and why
11. “Caesar, thou art reveng’d”
12. What happens to Titinius and why
13. “O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet! Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns out
swords in our own proper entrails.”
14. Role of Lucilius
15. Clitus, Dardanius, & Volumnius
16. Role of Strato
17. “Caesar, now be still, I kill’d not thee with half so good a will.”
18. “This was the noblest Roman of them all; …This was a man!”