I read somewhere once that we should "beware the Ides of March." If you want to find out what the Ides of March are and why we should beware them, post a comment on today's blog post and I will give you 10 points extra credit on today's participation grade.
Today our focus was on prewriting our essay - determining a thesis or claim based on the articles we annotated, brainstorming three reasons to support the thesis or claim, and then outlining the essay and planning for multiple uses of textual evidence to support the claim.
The next couple of days in class, we will write the essay and then submit it to Canvas. Be sure that you use one of the introduction and conclusion techniques we learned, state your claim clearly with three reasons, support that claim with multiple instances of textual evidence, and introduce a counterclaim at some point in your essay.
Read for 20 minutes each night as well.
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The Ides of March, written by William Shakespeare, is the day that Julius Caesar was assassinated by members of the Roman Senate. It is said to "beware the Ides of March" because a soothsayer had warned him of the day, but Caesar thought he did not need to listen to this. Because he did not listen he was killed; being stabbed 23 times. Caesar's death marked the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Civil War.
According to Plutarch, a seer had warned that harm would come to Caesar no later than the Ides of March. ... This meeting is famously dramatised in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, when Caesar is warned by the soothsayer to "beware the Ides of March."
The Ides of March is the day that Julius Caesar was assassinated by Romans. Someone had told him to be aware of this day but he was not aware and was killed and started a Roman war.
- Christian Nielsen (bubba)
The Ideas of March is said to be on March 15th. Before the ideas of March, Julius Caesar was warned of danger. A soothsayer said to "beware the ideas of March," but we all know that things didn't turn out very well for him... Getting stabbed multiple times and dying a horrible death marked the start of the Civil War. The ideas of March was written by William Shakespeare and should be well known by people all around for its moral and historic figures.
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