- Completed Vocab 11 worksheet.
- Discussed Brutus' and Antony's speech in small groups.
- Discussed the Rhetorical Triangle.
- Finished scene iii.
- Study for your quiz. Use your study guide to prepare. You will need to know characters (Metellus, Decius, Artemidorus, Cinna the Poet, Octavius, as well as other major characters), be able to put plot events in order, and answer questions similar to those on the study guide sheet.
- Act III, scene iii summary: Cinna the Poet is murdered by an angry mob who mistake him for Cinna the conspirator. This suggests that the death of Caesar, instead of ensuring a democratic republic, has borne a mob mentality that rules on impulse.
- You also need to be able to label the Rhetorical Triangle. For those who were absent for the play today, it looks like this. The labels you need to know: Ethos (speaker/writer)--has to do with how much the audience/readers trust the speaker; Logos (subject)--has to do with how logical and reasonable the argument seems; Pathos (reader/listener)--has to do with the emotional impact of the speech or writing and forms the connection with the audience. All of these elements work together to impact how effective a speech or piece of writing is in delivering an argument. We will analyze Brutus and Antony's speech in more detail later. For now, you just need to know the parts of the triangle and be able to label them.
-Mrs. Kristoff
