Friday, November 4, 2011

My Julius Caesar English Tri-fold Project

In my Honors English class, we each had to do a project based on the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.  The project I chose to do was a tri-fold poster over the various settings of the play  and visuals to  depict them.  I chose this project because I am a poster project type of person and it was something I would enjoy doing.  The 5 different settings I chose to depict with visuals from the play were the streets of Rome, Brutus' orchard, the Roman forum, the senate house, and the battlefields at Philippi.  From this project, I learned that Shakespeare put lots of thought into the different settings of the play.  For example, Brutus' orchard/garden is the setting where Brutus chooses to betray Caesar.  This ties symbolically to the story in the bible of Judas' betrayal of  Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.  I also learned a little about the Roman culture and the city of Rome itself by studying the Roman forum and the Senate House.  The picture included is a picture of my tri-fold project.  

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