Et Tu Brutè: Performing Julius Caesar
Teacher Warwick Downs
| Year
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NCEA Level
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Duration
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| 12
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2
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5 weeks
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| Achievement Standard Being Assessed
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Achievement Criteria
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| AS90374 (English 2.7): Deliver a presentation using oral and visual language techniques
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- Communicate straightforward ideas.
- Use appropriate oral and visual language and presentation techniques for a specific audience and purpose.
- Present material clearly.
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| Processes
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Processing Information
Exploring Language
Thinking Critically
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Teacher background reading
Teaching and learning activities
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
To engage students in preparatory research, see Shakespeare's England
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Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Assessment
Unit Standard 12418
or 12425
Select and analyse the meaning of an important 20+ line speech (students may work on 40+ lines of dialogue in pairs) from Julius Caesar. Annotate the speech/dialogue, showing:
- meaning - word choice, imagery and sub-text.
- motivation - reasons for behaviour.
- relevant staging (set/costume/movement as relevant). decisions
- relevant performance (physical and vocal) decisions.
Sketch a series of stage plans showing movement in relation to text. Prepare a performance of this speech/dialogue for presentation to the class.
OR
AS90374 (English 2.7): Deliver a presentation using oral and visual language techniques
Internal Assessment Activity: Rich Talk
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Resources
Print
- Callow, Simon. The Road to Xanadu
Electronic
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
This is a very comprehensive site with links to the complete works including background information, biographical information and pictures, information about Elizabethan theatres, a Shakespearean dictionary, the first folio, quotes, a quiz and a discussion forum.
- Surfing with the Bard
- Shakespeare's language
- Much Ado About Something
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In Search of Shakespeare
A PBS resource to support the television series which includes, teaching resources, a playwright game and information on Shakespeare's life and times.
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Converse: Shakespearean Resources
Some excellent interactive resources to support the study of Shakespeare, including an animated depiction of the experience of viewing a Shakespearean play, an interactive 3D version of the Globe,plot questions on several plays, Shakespeare's insults and more.
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No Fear Shakespeare
A site which presents the language of Shakespeare's plays side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English.
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Shakespeare Games
Quizzes on Elizabethan English, Hamlet, memorable quotes and what's in a name?
Other
Mankiewicz, Joseph (Film). (1953) Julius Caesar
