Ms. Naylor's Class: 2012

Our final exam is coming up. Here is the schedule:

Per. 1: Thurs. June 7, 7:45 - 9:52
Per. 4: Thurs. June 7, 10:10 - 12:17

Per. 2: Fri. June 8, 7:45 - 9:52
Per. 5: Fri. June, 8 10:10 - 12:17

Per. 3: Mon. June 11, 7:45 - 9:52
Per. 6: Mon. June 11. 10:10 - 12:17

The final exam consists of TWO clicker tests. The first test is a vocabulary test. The test will cover only the 15 words from the packet I passed out on Tuesday, May 29th (packet 11 for period 1, packet 12 for period 2, packet 13 for period 3, packet 14 for period 4, and packet 15 for period 5). The packet is NOT due, it is for you to use to study for the test.

The second test is our 11th grade boot camp exam. It has 40 questions and is worth 80 points. The exam covers the following:

Short Story/Novel Terms
Poetry/Drama Terms
Some Essay Terms (including questions about MLA format)
Some Grammar, including but not limited to: active/passive voice, punctuation (semicolons, etc.), parallel structure, commonly confused words, etc.

There is also a writing portion of the final which we will take on Friday, June 1st.

Homework projects for Julius Caesar are due on Tuesday, June 5th. If you lost your list of projects, you can download it here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wUeGQ3nsqWLiAqkaj5SBzbCr9RD01hVq3c8lLI18Vgo/edit

Project #36 is to perform a selected speech from the play for the class. Below are five speeches that are acceptable for this project. For more information, see me in class! Good luck!

SPEECHES:

Speech #1

Act III, Scene 2, lines 75-109: (34 lines) pp. 834-835

Antony speaking to the crowd at Caesar’s funeral.

75 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

80 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 honorable man;

85 So are they all, all honorable 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 honorable man.

90 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:

95 Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honorable man.

You all did see that on the Lupercal

I thrice presented him a kingly crown,

Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?

100 Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And, sure, he is an honorable 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:

105 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.

Speech #2

Act III, Scene 1, lines 148-163: (16 lines) pp. 826

Antony speaking to the newly dead body of his friend Caesar, and then (at line 151) to Brutus, etc.

O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low?

Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,

150 Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well.

I know not, gentlemen, what you intend,

Who else must be let blood, who else is rank:

If I myself, there is no hour so fit

As Caesar's death hour, nor no instrument

155 Of half that worth as those your swords, made rich

With the most noble blood of all this world.

I do beseech ye, if you bear me hard,

Now, whilst your purpled hands do reek and smoke,

Fulfill your pleasure. Live a thousand years,

160 I shall not find myself so apt to die:

No place will please me so, no mean of death,

As here by Caesar, and by you cut off,

The choice and master spirits of this age.

Speech #3

Act III, Scene 1, lines 58-73: (16 lines) pp. 823

Ceasar speaking to a crowd, turning down Metellus’ request to help his brother Cimber

I could be well moved, if I were as you:

If I could pray to move, prayers would move me:

60 But I am constant as the northern star,

Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality

There is no fellow in the firmament.

The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks,

They are all fire and every one doth shine,

65 But there's but one in all doth hold his place:

So in the world; 'tis furnish'd well with men,

And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive;

Yet in the number I do know but one

That unassailable holds on his rank,

70 Unshaked of motion: and that I am he,

Let me a little show it, even in this;

That I was constant Cimber should be banish'd,

And constant do remain to keep him so.

Speech #4

Act II, Scene 1, lines 10-34: (25 lines) pp. 799

Brutus trying to think of a good reason to kill Caesar

10 It must be by his death: and for my part,

I know no personal cause to spurn at him,

But for the general. He would be crown'd:

How that might change his nature, there's the question.

It is the bright day that brings forth the adder;

15 And that craves wary walking. Crown him? – that; –

And then, I grant, we put a sting in him,

That at his will he may do danger with.

The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins

Remorse from power: and, to speak truth of Caesar,

20 I have not known when his affections sway'd

More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof,

That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,

Whereto the climber upward turns his face;

But when he once attains the upmost round

25 He then unto the ladder turns his back,

Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees

By which he did ascend. So Caesar may.

Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel

Will bear no color for the thing he is,

30 Fashion it thus; that what he is, augmented,

Would run to these and these extremities:

And therefore think him as a serpent's egg

Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,

And kill him in the shell.

Speech #5

Act I, Scene 2, lines 135-161: (26 lines) pp. 783-785

Cassius to Brutus, talking about Caesar:

135 Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world

Like a Colossus, and we petty men

Walk under his huge legs and peep about

To find ourselves dishonorable graves.

Men at some time are masters of their fates:

140 The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,

But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?

Why should that name be sounded more than yours?

Write them together, yours is as fair a name;

145 Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;

Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em,

Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.

Now, in the names of all the gods at once,

Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,

150 That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!

Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!

When went there by an age, since the great flood,

But it was famed with more than with one man?

When could they say till now, that talk'd of Rome,

155 That her wide walls encompass'd but one man?

Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,

When there is in it but one only man.

O, you and I have heard our fathers say,

There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd

160 The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome

As easily as a king.

Ms. Naylor's Class

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Welcome/Parts of Speech/Materials

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Punctuation

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Business Letters

Monday, July 2, 2012

Summer School 2012!

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Final Exam 2012

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Homework Projects (and Speeches)