Task 4: You will write a newspaper article the day after the Ides of March (March 15th). FYI, it would have been called The 17th day before the Kalends of April). Kalends was the first day of the month. It would have been written: a.d. XVII Kal. Apr. (a.d. means ante diem, the day before)
In your article you will:
1) give background information, when and how the conspiracy was formed (acts 1 and 2) juila Caesar
2) who were the conspirators (act2)
3) from interviewing witnesses, mention the warnings from the Soothsayer and Calpurnia and
Caesars reaction to these warnings. (act 2)
4) you must talk about the reasons for the conspiracy (acts 2 and 3)
5) Antonys funeral speech (act 3)
6) and speculate (make guesses about what will happen to Rome after Caesars death. (Acts 4
and 5)
7) Give your article a headline make it short and catchy, for example, Murder in the
Senate or Death Comes on the Ides
Newspaper articles are patterned on the following:
Who, what, when, where, why and how you must answer those questions in your article
The Inverted Pyramid style, meaning the most important information goes first and the
least important or background goes last. In this case, the last bit of information would be
background on Caesar. For example, Julius Caesar was born onin the town ofHe rose to
fame through his many military exploits and ended up serving.
Your final article must be typed, double spaced with an attention-grabbing headline.
It must be grammatically sound with proper spelling and punctuation use (use modern
English to keep things simple).
