Persuasion Map Planning Sheet Goal or Thesis



EXTRA CREDIT – TEST GRADE

Who is the most responsible for the end of the Roman Republic?

Part 1: RESEARCH – you need 4 index cards.

Step 1: Make your index card with your Most Wanted: character/person, including your 3 reasons for blaming this character/person.

Step 2: Complete your 3 index Research Cards – 1 for each of the 3 sources you are going to use to gather your evidence/support for these reasons. For this project you will use

1. The text of the play

2. Excerpts from Plutarch’s Lives

3. An internet source or another source of your choice

Step 3: Begin with the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Write next to “Source” the information you will need for your Works Cited sheet (the title, publishing information, pages of the play). Scan the scenes in the play for sections that support your claim as being a reason.

When you find one or more, write them as quotes followed by the line(s) written as 1.2.10-16, for example, for the Act.Scene.Line(s).

Step 4: Then go to Plutarch’s Lives. Using your second index Research Card, repeat the procedure in Step 3.

Step 5: Then find another source on your own. Using your third index Research Card, repeat the procedure in Step 3.

• You will need a total of 4 index cards. The first one will look like the one above. You must come up with your 3 reasons for thinking this person is the most responsible. One of the 3 reasons will be supported from the play; one of the 3 reasons will be supported from Plutarch’s Lives; and one of the 3 reasons will be supported from an internet or other source that you find on your own.

• The second, third, and fourth cards will look like the one below. This is where the research information goes for your 1st reason. All the support quotes and information you find from this source for THAT reason will go on this card.

Example of card if Caesar is the most responsible and the source

is the play in our class textbook.

Example of card if Caesar is the most responsible and the source

is one of the volumes of Plutarch’s Lives owned by Mrs. Austin

Because this is a special edition of an ancient work, the citation is complicated. First, write the title of the original work (Plutarch: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, The Dryden Translation); the publisher and city (Chicago: William Benton; Encyclopedia Brittanica, Inc.); year (1952); the volume, name, and editor of this book (Vol. 14 of Great Books of the Western World. Ed. Robert Maynard Hutchins. 54 vols.).

Example of card if Caesar is the most responsible and the source

is found on the internet.

PART 2: PERSUASION Essay form

You will need your 4 index cards out while you are writing the essay. Transfer all of your information from your index cards to the appropriate boxes of the Persuasion Essay form - see the Persuasion Map template or go to interactive website and fill it out then print from there



PART 3: MOST WANTED POSTER – no smaller than 22” x 28”

Create your Most Wanted poster. Make sure you include at least:

• Name of the character/person

• Crime: Causing the End of the Roman Republic

• The 3 reasons you claim as the basis for him/her being the Most Wanted

• Image of the Most Wanted person/character

• Graphics that will appeal to the reader – make the reader want to help nab this character/person

• Your name and period on the front or back

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PART 4: Works Cited List

Attach to the Persuasive Essay form, your Works Cited List (you will get this from your index cards)

Turn in to Mrs. Austin by the deadline:

• RUBRIC with your name on it (see link on website or see Mrs. Austin).

• 4 completed index cards

• Persuasive Essay form with Works Cited attached

• Most Wanted Poster

Persuasive Essay Planning Sheet

Goal or Thesis

A goal or thesis is a statement that describes one side of an arguable viewpoint.

1. • What is the thesis or point you are trying to argue?

Main Reasons

You will need some good reasons to support your goal or thesis.

Briefly state three main reasons that would convince someone that your thesis is valid.

1. • Reason 1

2. • Reason 2

3. • Reason 3

Facts or Examples

What are some facts or examples you could state to support this reason and validate this argument?

1. • Fact or Example 1

2. • Fact or Example 2

3. • Fact or Example 3

Conclusion

A piece of persuasive writing usually ends by summarizing the most important details of the argument and stating once again what the reader is to believe or do.

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Card 1

Name

Period

MOST WANTED: ____(name)_________

Crime: Bringing about the end of the Roman Republic.

1. (reason)

2.

3.

You may get index cards from me.

Name

Reason 1 (write the reason).

Source: (give all of the information you will need on your Works Cited sheet).

Quote #1: (write in quotation marks the exact words from the source that you are going to use in your support for the reason) – page number(s) of source and/or lines of the play.

Quote #2:

Quote #3:

Name: Mrs. Austin

Source: Ed. Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes. William Shakespeare. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Upper Saddle River. Prentice-Hall, Inc. 2011. 893-1000.

Quote #1: He decides to go to the Senate, his wife talks him out of it, then he is persuaded to go after all (2.2.55-107).

Quote #2:

Quote #3:

Name: Mrs. Austin

Reason #2: His ambition seemed unstoppable, leading the desperate conspirators no choice but to assassinate him.

Source: Plutarch: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, The Dryden Translation. Vol. 14 of Great Books of the Western World. Ed. Robert Maynard Hutchins. 54 vols. Chicago: William Benton; Encyclopedia Brittanica, Inc. 1952.

Quote #1: “After the triumphs, he distributed rewards to his soldiers, and treated the people with feasting and shows. He entertained the whole people together at one feast, where twenty-two thousand dining couches were laid out…display of gladiators…” 598.

Quote #2:

Quote #3:

Name: Mrs. Austin

Reason #3: He “spoiled” the people into thinking a leader should shower them with money and favors.

Source: “Julius Caesar: Historical Background.” Barbara F. McManus, ed. Revised Nov. 2001. Web. 20 Feb. 2014.

Quote #1: “Furthermore, the Senate was constantly voting him new honors—the right to wear the laurel wreath and purple and gold toga and sit in a gilded chair at all public functions, inscriptions such as ‘to the unconquerable god,’ etc. When two tribunes, Gaius Marullus and Lucius Flavius, opposed these measures, Caesar had them removed from office and from the Senate.”

Quote #2:

Quote #3:

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