This assignment was about creating a body biography for Gaius Cassius.  First we researched about him and then we took what we learned and made the body biography.   It is a giant visual and written representation of this person’s life that we drew on a big piece of paper.  We thought about the placement of the words that described Cassius’s personality and the things that happened in his life.  Cassius really wanted Julius Caesar killed and he led the plot to murder him.  He was the brother-in-law of Marcus Brutus and a senator of Rome.  He was known to be impatient and he took his own life after he thought Brutus had lost a battle.

We decided to put things in places that made sense and had some meaning behind them.  We put when he died on his organs because you need organs to live. On his shoulders we put the words ‘politician’ and ‘general’ because it means power and he was a powerful leader.  We put a knife on his body because he led the plot to kill Caesar and then he killed himself.  One of his qualities was that he was impatient so we put on the body ‘#grumpy.’  We put his brother-in-law’s name ‘Marcus Brutus’ in the centre of his body because Brutus was so central to Cassius’ life.

As a student I really enjoyed this activity.  It made me stop and think about what makes up a person and what they do in their life. It is easier to learn about someone when it is in a picture like this.  Here is a picture of our body biography of Cassius.