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In addition to teaching your students a famous Shakespearean play, you could use the Ides of March to explore the role of superstitions in our lives and culture.
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www.readwritethink.org/calendar/calendar_day.asp?id=458
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Learn about the Ides of March, the Roman Calendar date famous for being an unlucky day for Julius Caesar. Read sites exploring the Ides' significance to ancient Romans, as well as the day's reputation since Caesar's assassination. ... Web | Directory | Category ; ... Help us improve the Yahoo! Directory - Share your ideas...
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dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Calendars/Roman/Ides_of_March/
dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Calendars/Roman/Ides_of_March/
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The Ides Of March Forget Friday the 13th Ignore ladders black cats broken mirrors and spilt salt Think instead of March 15 and beware As superstitions go being wary of the ides of March ... Think instead of March 15, and beware. As superstitions go, being wary of the ides ... The ides of March,
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www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm411322.html
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Click here to read the STORY of the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March as by ; Shakespeare. ... Click here to read a THEORY about superstitions and calendars... why did Caesar not heed the warnings...
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www.jbedwards.org/WebQuest/wqfall03/minipages/clarkwbpg...
www.jbedwards.org/WebQuest/wqfall03/minipages/clarkwbpg/index.html
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Friday the 13th... and a full moon, too; Spooked by superstitions? ... Not only does March have the second Friday the 13th of 1998, but next Friday will feature a full moon and a lunar eclipse. If that's not enough to send chills down your spine, consider that two days later will be the Ides of March!
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www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol29/vol29n23/n8.html
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MAIN Home Life Holidays & Observances Ides of March ... What is the "Ides of March" and why should anyone beware the date holding such bad news and omens? ... also see in Society & Superstitions -> Friday the 13th...
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www.chiff.com/a/ides-of-march.htm
www.chiff.com/a/ides-of-march.htm
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Soothsayer:; Beware the ides of March. ... The "ides" of March is the fifteenth; which day of the month the ides is depends on a complicated system of calculation Caesar himself established when he instituted the Julian calendar, a precursor of our own. The ides of January, for example, is the thirteenth;
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www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/beware-ides-march
www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/beware-ides-march
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The ides of March are ominous. Military options will be grossly counterproductive. ... Other Ides ... If the neocons prevail in casting their war spell on Bush, the ides of March will surely herald a global scourge.
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www.maavak.net/maavak/maavak052.html
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As superstitions go, being wary of the ides of March is certainly more unusual. Yet the day does have a certain resonance. ... The ides of March, however, is one day that continues to appeal, marked because that was the date that Julius Caesar was assassinated in the senate, in 44BC.
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www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/1362927/posts
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