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Handout
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Shakespeare Julius Caesar

For Students 9th - 10th
At this website, read the full text of "Julius Caesar." This Shakespearean tragedy is organized by scene.
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Lesson Plan
Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plans: Teaching Julius Caesar

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two lesson plans for teaching Shakespeare's Julius Caesar focus on the play's consideration of friendship, alliances, and character motivation. With links to related information produced by the Folger on Shakespeare's life and work.
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Handout
Vroma Project

V Roma Project: Julius Caesar: Historical Background

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides biographical information on the Roman general and political leader Julius Caesar, presented in a timeline. Covers major events of his life including his military career, rise to power, and death by assassination. This page is...
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Trier

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia, a publically-maintained wiki, offers information on the German city of Trier, including its well-preserved Roman buildings, city gate, and baths. There are images and external links, as well.
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Activity
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: Great Caesar! Condescend

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem from Emily Dickinson, "Great Caesar! Condescend", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Scott Becker and can access a printable version of this piece.
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Unit Plan
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Teacher's Guide to William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource provides detailed study questions, suggestions for before and after reading, and a resource bibliography.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: The Roman Empire of the 1st Century: Getting to Know the Emperors of Rome

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, learners will discuss the merits of heredity rule. After using various games, features, and video clips from the Web site, students should have learned basic information about each of nine featured emperors. Learners will...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: The Roman Empire of the 1st Century: Who's Who in Roman History

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students produce a classroom documentary about important historical figures from the Roman Empire. They will also create posters to be part of a classroom timeline showing when each of these people lived and their impact...
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Website
Other

Digital Attic: The Military Affairs of Ancient Rome

For Students 9th - 10th
Everything you want to know about the Roman army is discussed and explained here in great detail. This covers all aspects of the Julius Caesar's legions in his invasion of Gaul.
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Website
Other

Julius Caesar Paraphrase

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A scene-by-scene paraphrase of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in two formats. You can proceed act by act through the paraphrase, or you can view the original text and the paraphrase side by side in a PDF document. RL.9-10.4 Word choice, Tone
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Handout
Other

Shakespeare Resource Center: Shakespeare's Grammar

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a searchable glossary of over 2100 words from Shakespeare's works.
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eBook
Other

Classzone: The Roman Empire [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
This e-textbook outlines the creation of the Roman Empire, and how it transformed Roman government, society, economy, and culture.
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Handout
Other

Decline of the Roman Republic: Military Commanders

For Students 9th - 10th
A good account on the later years of the Roman Redpublic, it focuses on the military commanders that were in constant conflict over power. These commanders included, among others, Crassus and eventually Julius Caesar. This conflict led...
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Handout
Ibis Communications

Eyewitness to History: Julius Caesar Crosses the Rubicon, 49 Bc

For Students 9th - 10th
A selection from Suetonius that describes the actions Caesar took at the Rubicon River, why he did it, and the effects of this move.
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Website
Franco Cavazzi

The Roman Empire: Gaius Julius Caesar

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Roman Empire provides a general biography of Julius Caesar. Content includes Caesar's early life, his capture by pirates, his return to Rome, his military trip to Spain, the "First Triumvirate," his governorship of...
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eBook
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Shakespeare site that includes the texts of all of Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare's other work is listed, but texts are not available. RL.11-12.10a/b Text Complexity
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Interactive
Fun Trivia

Fun Trivia: Shakespeare Trivia Quizzes

For Students 9th - 10th
On this site, Shakespearean quizzes and Shakespearean trivia collections are found. There are 29 folders of content associated with Shakepeare plays and facts.
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Handout
World History Encyclopedia

World History Encyclopedia: Aedile

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia entry with illustrations and timeline describes the role of Aedile in the Roman Republic.
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Handout
World History Encyclopedia

World History Encyclopedia: Ancient Rome

For Students 9th - 10th
Delves into the history of Ancient Rome from the founding in 753 BCE to the beginning of the Roman Empire.
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Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Julius Caesar

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive site features resources for teaching William Shakespeare's history play Julius Caesar. Includes lesson plans and other teaching resources.
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PPT
TES Global

Tes: Julius Caesar Revision

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint lesson contains a series of Wordles that will help test students' knowledge of quotes in Act II of Julius Caesar. Teachers can use this to link Act II of Julius Caesar to its themes and...
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Unit Plan
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Sir Dig a Lot: History Mysteries: Rome

For Students 1st - 6th
Join Sir Dig-a-Lot and Rohan on their brief journey through the history of Rome.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Ancient Rome and Byzantium Julius Caesar

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Roman leader Julius Caesar. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Website
BBC

Bbc: The Fall of the Roman Republic

For Students 9th - 10th
Rome began as a democracy and ended as an autocracy. Find out why and how this happened by perusing the following summary. Included are all the major players from Tiberius to Julius Caesar and Augustus.