Funeral Oration
Activator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X9C55TkUP8
Learning Target
Scholars
will translate Mark Antony’s speech.
Work Session
So,
you might recall we read act III on Monday, and now I have an activity for you:
translate Marc Antony’s famous “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”
speech from Caesar’s funeral. This translation can be to modern, academic
English (“Friends and fellow Romans, please listen to what I have to say”) or
it can be to a modern English like you would speak (“Hey y’all, listen up!”).
Either way, you need to line by line translate the speech to a modern version.
We will take about twenty minutes or so to finish that today.
Afterwards, we’re going to continue reading act IV. At this point in the play, the action will shift from Caesar’s death and the conspiracy to kill him onto the civil war that started after he died. Act IV and V go really quickly, and with luck we will have both acts finished within a couple days :) After that, the play is done and we can get started on our big writing assignment! YAY!
Afterwards, we’re going to continue reading act IV. At this point in the play, the action will shift from Caesar’s death and the conspiracy to kill him onto the civil war that started after he died. Act IV and V go really quickly, and with luck we will have both acts finished within a couple days :) After that, the play is done and we can get started on our big writing assignment! YAY!
Closing Session
Would
anyone like to share their translated speech?
Assessment
Final
student translation
Differentiation
Varied
levels of reading difficulty, student choice, flexible grouping and
oral/visual.
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