Today in History we rehersed our skits a bit more. In my skit I'm playing a man named Sun Tzu. After learning what role I would be playing, I was curious to know more about Sun Tzu so I found this helpful website http://www.slideshare.net/bright9977/5-factors-for-life-by-sun-tzu. This website has many quotes about Sun Tzu's war strategy's and his ethics behind them. An interesting point he has was that choosing the setting of the battle can have a major impact on the outcome of it. Another point he brought up a lot on this website was that if there is an obstacle in life, always find an easy way around it.
Today in English, we created posters for either the reading we did on Shakespear or the reading we did on Julius Caesar. A connection I had to the Shakespear reading we did was while writing the script for Homecoming, I remembered a term from that reading. This term was aside, which is when a character says something directed towards the audience, not the other characters. I used this term in the skit by making the main character of the skit say to the audience "Oh brother" when she sees Mrs. Jones coming.
After reading Act 1 of the play Julius Ceasar, I have already made a connection to Oedipus Rex. In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus ignores Tyresias's prophesy claiming that it is not true. In the end, however, Oedipus learns Tirisius's prediction was right all along. This connnects to Julius Caesar because in one part, a soothsayer chimes out in the crowd to Caesar " Beware the ides of March.". When hearing this, Caesar calls his crazy and continues with his buissiness. What bCaesar does not know is that in the ides of March, he will be murdered.
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