Part A – Planning Your Narrative Review the scenefrom Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the excerpt from Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans. Then, plan your own narrative in the table below. Be sure to draw on some ideas from the texts but transform it for a modern audience. Be as creative as you’d like!

TIP: If needed, look at these ideas for transforming the sources in your narrative.

Plato

What genre of narrative will you write? short story
What details will you draw from the original sources?
(What will you keep the same?) characters Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Metellus
betrayal of Caesar the idea that Caesar feels most betrayed by Brutus
How will you transform the sources?
(What will you change?)
setting will be present day on a car ride to school with Julius (Caesar) driving
characters will be modern teenagers, use the name Julius instead of Caesar and Met instead of Metellus
characters will rebel against Julius (Caesar) by not riding to school with him anymore