We studied an essay included in our text discussing why Antony describes Brutus as "the noblest. Roman of them all." As a prelude to drafting an in class essay on this same topic, we discussed what to include in an essay outline and Bobby then prepared a list explaining and supporting Antony's observation about Brutus . I focused our discussion on additional textual support evidencing Brutus' idealistic character as well as Cassius ' manipulation of Brutus by taking advantage of Brutus' idealism. We then formed a topic sentence using the prompt and began an introduction. As we will be having our final test on the play on Wednesday, for homework I assigned completing the essay as a practice exercise . In this regard, I emphasized the need to use an organizational structure that includes separate paragraphs for an introduction, textual support, and a conclusion.