Julius Caesar - Shakespeare Play - A Readers' Theater Script & Activities Gr. 4-6
EBOTM186903
$6.75 CAD
Additional information:
This adapted play is 10 - 15 minutes long, and will instill a love of Shakespeare and boost literacy skills!
Background information is provided to enrich the play, a program for easy staging, and costumes are included. Character roles are written at an easy reading level.
Arranged in two sections, theteacher sectionincludes assessment forms, a brief Shakespeare biography, ideas for presenting, discussing, and working with the play. Thestudent sectionincludes the script, and two creative thinking and writing worksheets, and comprehension activities that allow students to demonstrate their comprehension of the materials at hand, and improve writing skills.
Julius Caesar Synopsis:
Long ago, in Rome, members of the senate were growing increasingly worried about the popularity of the great general, Julius Caesar. When Caesar is offered the emperor's crown, the rebellious senators act, some for political reasons, others out of their love for Rome and its institutions. They assassinate ,Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, as a soothsayer had predicted. Those loyal to Caesar, such as Marc Antony, raise an army to hunt down and bring the conspirators to justice. Eventually, all of the conspirators are caught and killed, although a few opt for suicide, such as Marcus Brutus, the "noblest Roman of them all". To restore order, Caesar's nephew, Octavius, agrees to rule Rome, as part of a triumvirate that also includes Marc Antony and M. Aemilius Lepidus.
