You don't need good omens to engage your students with Julius Caesar, but a fortuitous unit plan might just change your fate! This engaging and editable Julius Caesar unit plan will help you make Shakespeare’s tragedy relevant, thought-provoking, and FUN! Each act contains interactive notes and creative activities to bring this historical play to life!

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You will get: 

Julius Caesar Pre-Reading Activities:

⭐Introduction stations to hook students from the start

⭐A playbill template with character list and notes

Julius Caesar Reading Activities:

⭐Interactive notes for Julius Caesar Act 1 with prompts to summarize, quote, and recall
⭐Interactive notes for Julius Caesar Act 2 with prompts to annotate, interpret, illustrate
⭐Interactive notes for Julius Caesar Act 3 with prompts to analyze, paraphrase, and annotate
⭐Interactive notes for Julius Caesar Act 4 with prompts to compare, recall, explain, and interpret
⭐Interactive notes for Julius Caesar Act 5 with prompts to quote, discuss, paraphrase, and create

Julius Caesar Drama Activities:

⭐Acting troupe group activities for each act that help bring this play to life!
⭐Act it out activity

⭐Finger puppet play

⭐ Theme Tableau

Julius Caesar Engagement Activities:

⭐Rhetorical speeches close reading
⭐Julius Caesar gallery walk
⭐Discussion prompts for Act 1
⭐Discussion prompts for Act 3

⭐Discussion prompts for Act 5

Julius Caesar Connection Activities:

⭐Informational text pairings

⭐TED Talk thematic pairing

Julius Caesar Post-reading Activities:

⭐Movie adaptation guide

⭐Essay prompt choices

⭐35 question multiple choice test

Here's more you can count on:
✅ This unit is editable to fit your needs!
✅ This resource can be printed or use digitally in Google classrooms or other LMS providers.
✅ This unit has answer keys!

Ready to make teaching Julius Caesar easier and a lot more fun? Bring the betrayal and power struggles to life in your classroom with this Julius Caesar Unit Plan. Your students will dive deep into the text, and you'll feel energized by their engagement!