Today In history we split into our groups and discussed the olive branch petition. The olI've branch petition was sent to the British from the colonists in hope that it would bring peace and prevent a full blown war. Britains response to this well thought out petition was just to ignore it. The Americans were angered by this, which shows in an excerpt we read in class from a newspaper. In this excerpt, a man was ranting about how we should break the. Onne tion with Britain because they caused all of America's problems and were only there to benefit themselves.
In English today we read Act 3 of Julius Caesar. In this act, Caesar is stabbed by the conspirators. When this stabbing occurs, Caesar is very astonishEd by the participation of his "friend" Brutus, who was always there for Caesar and loved Caesar. When he was stabbed by Brutus he cried out the famous line, "Et tu, Bruti" which means and you too, Brutus. After he died, Antony pretends to be okay with what the conspirators have done in order to plot revenge.
The olive branch petition is an approach that the conspirators in Juius Caesar should have taken. They should have made a petition ordering caesar to step down because that would show Caesar that he needs to change his ways and would have prevented the war that came out of his death. It would have also ended a whole lot less violently and
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