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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Marc Antony Lights the Fuse; AWAA, Reading and Writing

  • Review yesterday's reading, check homework.
  • Add two vocab words:
    Honor: A sense of what is right, just, and true; having a good, respected name.
    Honorable: deserving honor and respect
  • Finish reading Act III with emphasis on the details of Antony's famous funderal oration.
  • HW: summarize the today's reading
  • HW: Underline or highlight every line in Antony's speech that demonstrates an example of irony (in the following exerpt:)

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest -
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men -
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.

11R AWAA

  • Continue reading and writing reading logs
  • Reminder: deadline is Friday