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Seat Work
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If you have a Punic Wars
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October 25, 2016
Finishing up Cleopatra Cornell Notes
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Evidence
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Document A:
Michelangelo .
(1533-1534).
Cleopatra
[Painting].
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Document B:
Antony and Cleopatra
, a
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Document A:
Cleopatra
by Michelangelo,
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Document B:
Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare, 1607-1623
Original: Translated:
She puts the snake on her chest
CLEOPATRA (talking to the snake): Kill me by biting me. You poisonous thing, get angry and bite me. If you could talk, maybe you would call Octavian an idiot who’s been outsmarted!
CHARMIAN (her servant): Oh no!
CLEOPATRA (talking to her servant): Be quiet! Don’t you see the snake on my chest about to bite and kill me?
CHARMIAN (talking to Cleopatra): Oh, my heart is going to break!
CLEOPATRA (talking to herself): The poison is as sweet as juice, as soft as air, as gentle—Oh, Antony!—No, he’ll die, too.
She puts another snake on her arm.
(Talking to herself, feeling very depressed) Why should I stay alive?!
She puts the snake on her chest
CLEOPATRA (talking to the snake): Kill me by biting me. You poisonous thing, get angry and bite me. If you could talk, maybe you would call Octavian an idiot who’s been outsmarted!
CHARMIAN (her servant): Oh no!
CLEOPATRA (talking to her servant): Be quiet! Don’t you see the snake on my chest about to bite and kill me?
CHARMIAN (talking to Cleopatra): Oh, my heart is going to break!
CLEOPATRA (talking to herself): The poison is as sweet as juice, as soft as air, as gentle—Oh, Antony!—No, he’ll die, too.
She puts another snake on her arm.
(Talking to herself, feeling very depressed) Why should I stay alive?!
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Reliability
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How would you evaluate these sources
on reliability?
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What do we know about their creators?
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Reliability
In both documents, Cleopatra does in
fact die from snakebites, however
neither is reliable because they were
both created long after the event AND
because neither paintings nor plays are
expected to be historically accurate!
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More Evidence
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Move around the room to read Document C
Document C
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Document D
Document D
, and Document E
Document E
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Fill out your chart:
– Who made it? When? Is it reliable?
– According to the source, did Cleopatra die by snakebite?
Explain.
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Skip the bottom section for now – we will talk about it
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Document C
• Who wrote it? Plutarch (Greek historian)
• When? Plutarch wrote “Life of Antony” in 75 CE
(Cleopatra died in 37 BCE)
• Is it reliable? Plutarch was a historian, so he wrote what
was known about Cleopatra’s death. On the other hand, it was written over one hundred years after her death.
• According to this source, did Cleopatra die by
snakebite? He is unsure. He says it could have been snakes or poison hidden in a comb.
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Document D
• Who wrote it? Cassius Dio (Greek historian who wrote
80 books on Roman history)
• When? Dio lived from 164-230 CE (Cleopatra died in 37
BCE)
• Is it reliable? Dio was a historian, but he wrote this
document over 200 years after Cleopatra’s death
• According to this source, did Cleopatra die by
snakebite? He says she definitely died from poison, but it is unclear whether the poison came from a snake or her hairpin
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Document E
•Who wrote it? Francois Retief and Louis P. Cilliers
(modern scholars/historians)
•When? 2005
•Is it reliable? It is a contemporary article that is based on
scholarly analysis of evidence, so it is probably more reliable than any other document
•According to this source, did Cleopatra die by
snakebite? They say it is unlikely that she died by
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Bottom Section
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Based on Documents C, D,
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What do you think?
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Why might we give more weight/reliability to
Documents C, D, and E than to Documents A and B?
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Do you think Cleopatra was killed by a snakebite?
Why?
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Why has the snake been such a lasting image/belief
regarding Cleopatra’s death?
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What else do we learn about Cleopatra from these
stories?
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Remember, victors (winners) tend write history! What
Cornell Notes
Divide the paper into three
sections.
Draw a dark line about 5 or 6 lines
from the bottom.
Draw a dark vertical line about 2
inches from the left side of the
paper from the top to the
Notes
•The large box to the right is for writing
notes.
•Skip a line between ideas and topics.
•Don't use complete sentences- use
abbreviations whenever possible.
Key Points
•Pull out main ideas, key points, dates, and people, and write
them in the left column.
NOTES
Topic
•On the top line, write the topic about
which you will be taking notes
TOPIC
Summary
Write a summary of the main ideas in the
bottom section in complete sentences.
Does this make
sense to you?
Probably not, but
it does to John Q.
Student, and
that's all that
