English Language Arts 10 Final Essay Topics

ELA 10-1

Your response can be in the form of a narrative or essay.

In Julius Caesar, we have many people working together for various reasons and with varying degrees of success. Most of the relationships have tension in them and all are marked with conflicting pressures, values, and consequences that surround decision making.

Choose any two characters that have a close relationship and examine the effect of their decisions on their relationship. Consider carefully how the decisions of these characters are affected by three of the following “big ideas”: power, fate and free will, friendship, art and culture, gender, manipulation, pride, principles.

Brutus and Cassius

or

Brutus and Portia

or

Caesar and Antony

or

Antony and Octavius

 

ELA 10-2

Your response can be in the form of a narrative or essay

Write a narrative or essay in which you examine conflicting pressures, values, and consequences that surround decision making. Connect to news, history, culture, religion, politics, sports, and/or society in your exploration of the decisions that surround the use of violence.