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For the Teacher
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The research project presented in the following slides is suitable for your students to work on throughout a unit on Julius Caesar. It will probably be most useful for your students to research the Roman Republic prior to reading the play. You may wish to stagger the due dates for each of the six steps, giving students roughly four weeks total time to work on the project.
It will be very important that you have a clear sense of the significant parallels between the political histories of the late Roman Republic and Elizabethan England. You will want to ensure that students are finding information about the power struggles between the populares and optimates that led to Caesar's famous crossing of the Rubicon. They should also learn about the period of civil war after Caesar's assassination. You may need to help students see the parallels between the struggles for power in the Roman Republic and similar struggles over the succession of Henry VIII. You will also want your students to see that in 1599, when Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar, it was unclear who would succeed Queen Elizabeth to the throne. Hence, it is very likely that Shakespeare's original audience would have feared a return to the strife and uncertainty that preceded Queen Elizabeth's regency. It may be helpful to hold one or two discussion sessions in class in which students share their findings. You can scaffold students in the process of identifying these parallels.
The project is designed with the assumption that your students have ready access to the Internet and various print media with which to conduct research.
Many of the details of the project, including point values, due dates, time limits, and formatting requirements are, of course, left up to you to develop.
This is an ideal project to work on in collaboration with a social studies teacher.
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