Julius Caesar

What this page covers

This page collects study material on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Most of it is mind maps, many of them organized act by act. You will also find a few quizzes, a few flashcard decks, some notes and a flowchart. All of it was made by GoConqr users, not by GoConqr.

Where to start

Begin with the big picture. The mind map titled English: Julius Caesar breaks the play into acts and scenes. Then open the character map Julius Caesar, which covers Brutus, Antony, Portia, Calphurnia, Cassius, Octavius, Casca and others.

1. Read an overview map to see how the acts fit together.
2. Open an act map, such as Julius Caesar Act 4, where Antony joins forces with Octavius and Lepidus.
3. Check the notes called Plot and Key Facts for a quick summary.

Rhetoric and language

A large group of maps look at ethos, pathos and logos. Examples include Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in Julius Caesar and many maps called Rhetorical Appeals, each made by a different group of students. Comparing a few of them shows how different people read the same speeches. The quiz Antony's Speech (Julius Caesar) asks you to fill in missing words from the famous funeral speech.

Using quizzes and maps together

Read a map first, then take a quiz on the same part of the play. The quizzes Julius Caesar Act 1 Scene 2 and Julius Caesar Act 3 and 4 work well after the matching act maps. Julius Caesar: Literary Terms and Julius Caesar: the theatre structure help with the vocabulary of drama. Wrong answers show you which map to reopen. The decks Julius Caesar Main Quotes Flashcards and Caesar Act IV Vocab are useful for quick repeats.

Where it fits

This unit sits in the Shakespeare strand of the Literature subject. It is a focused set of resources on one play, aimed at school students and useful for teachers planning lessons.

Pick one act, work through its map and quiz, then build a flashcard deck of your own.