Julius Caesar Vocabulary

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 One person should go to the Jumpstart
folder to retrieve worksheets for their
tablemates.
 Question: Should vaccinations be a choice
made by the parent/guardian or by a doctor?
Explain.
Scene I
Provide with military equipment
“Upon the word,
Accoutred as I was, I plunged in
And bade him follow.”
 Someone who makes predictions of the
future (basis of special knowledge)
 “Enter Caesar; Antony for the course,
Calpurnia, Portia, Decius, Cicero, Brutus,
Cassius, Casca; a Soothsayer; after them
Marullus and Flavius.”
 In the Roman calendar, 15th of
March/May/July/October, or 13th of any
other month
 “SOOTHSAYER: Beware the ides of March.”
 A quick reply to a question or remark
(witty/critical)
 “And when you saw his chariot but appear,
Have you not made an universal shout, That
Tiber trembled underneath her banks; To
hear the replication of your sounds/ Made in
her concave shores?”
 Pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching
small holes
 “Cobbler: Truly, Sir, all that I live by is with the awl; I
meddle with no tradesman’s matters, nor women’s
matters, but with awl.”
 Make sense of; assign meaning to
 “…let not therefore my good friends be
grieved – Among which number, Cassius, be
you one – Nor construe any further my
neglect / Than that poor Brutus with
himself at war / Forgets the shows of love to
other men.”
 Viscera and trimmings of a butchered
animal, considered inedible
 “What trash is Rome, / What rubbish and
what offal, when it serves / For the base
matter to illuminate / So vile a thing as
Caesar?”
 Attentive consideration and meditation
 “CASSIUS: Then, Brutus, I have much
mistook your passion, / By means
whereof this breast of mine hath
buried / thoughts of great value,
worthy cogitations.”
 Patient endurance, especially of pain or
distress
 “Our fathers’ minds are dead / And we are
govern’d with our mothers’ spirits; / Our
yoke and sufferance show us womanish.”
 Get up on the back of
 “Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow
world / Like a Colossus, and we petty men /
Walk under his huge legs and peep about /
to find ourselves dishonorable graves.”
 An assistant subject to the authority or
control of another
 “Men at some time are masters of their fates;
/ The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, /
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
 A pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry
in medieval times
 “O, he sits high in all the people’s hearts, /
And that which would appear offense in us,
/ His countenance, like richest alchemy, /
Will change to virtue and to worthiness.”
 The visual property of something that
shines with reflected light
 “Tis true, this god did shake; / His coward
lips did from their color fly, / And that same
eye whose bend doth awe the world / Did
lose his luster.”
 Curving inward
 “And when you saw his chariot but appear, /
Have you not made an universal shout, /
That Tiber trembled underneath her banks /
To hear the replication of your sounds /
Made in her concave shores?”
 Fill, as with a certain quality
 “…Their natures and preformed faculties, /
To monstrous quality, why, you shall find /
That heaven hath infused them with these
spirits / To make them instruments of fear
and warning…”
 A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
 “What trade, thou knave?”
 Someone or something that is abnormally
large and powerful
 “Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow
world / Like a Colossus, and we petty men /
Walk under his huge legs…”
 In your groups, write the FINAL draft
of your rap – last day to do this in class
 Assignment and performances due on
Wednesday
 Rubric, final copy of rap (typed) with
internal citations, and works cited
page
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