Julius Caesar Act 3 scene 2

This 31 slide PowerPoint forms an entire lesson focussing on Act 3 scene 2 and the rhetorical masterpiece that is Antony’s funeral oration. The lesson guides the class through the playwright’s craft in positioning the scene, in the ordering of the two speakers (Brutus followed by Antony), the different approaches to the speech presentation (prose vs blank verse) and the full range of techniques deployed by Antony as he wins over the Roman citizenry. The language of the speeches is explored along with the theatrical presentation so that students are fully prepared to write about the writer’s techniques in presenting character (assessment objective AO2) by the end of the lesson. Suitable for GCSE, in particular AQA.