Julius Caesar Project

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HW: Campaign Speech (honors)

Public speaking requires many skills beyond being able to speak. You must also know how to write eloquent and crowd-moving speeches. Think “I Have a Dream” and presidential addresses. Many leaders even hire speech writers to help them create their masterpieces. You’ve now been hired by either Brutus or Marc Antony to help them with their campaign to lead Rome. Now that we’ve learned about several persuasive techniques, you must incorporate them into a well-written and convincing speech. Brutus now would like very much to be the leader in Rome, but as we have heard from Antony’s speech he, too, would like to lead Rome.

Requirements:

• Your assignment is to write a campaign speech for one of these two men. You must include at least three persuasive techniques (use your handout and notes). Your campaign speech should be at least 200 words in length, typed, double-spaced.

Grading:

• (10 points) Type your paper and have your name, teacher, period, and date in the left corner. Your chosen character (Brutus or Antony) should be your title.


• (30 points) Highlight the rhetorical devices in your speech and annotate in the margins which rhetorical devices you used and why.


• (20 points) Provide notes (stage directions) on HOW you should deliver your speech (i.e. take a pause, raise/lower your voice, etc.)


• (10 points) Show clear support for the leadership of either Brutus or Antony


• (10 points) Be written for the plebians of Rome


• (10 points) Be ready on Thursday, April 14, 2011; several students will be selected to present their speeches to the class


• (10 points) Be clean in nature (school-appropriate) and free of grammatical/spelling errors

This Week: 4/11-4/15

Welcome Back from Spring Break! MONDAY: Act 3 review: quotes, identifying persuasive techniques; finish movie viewing of Act 3 HOMEWORK: Act 3 study guide due tomorrow, review for test TUESDAY: Act 3 TEST HOMEWORK: Campaign Speech (due Thursday) WEDNESDAY: Vocabulary TEST (all 40 words); Act 4 THURSDAY: Campaign Speech due; Act 4; Sign up for final project activity FRIDAY: Act 4/5; movie viewing (No Blog due today) HOMEWORK: Leadership Essay due Tuesday

Vocabulary Words #1-40

1.Succor(n)- help; aid
2.Sagacious(adj)- discerning; keen practical sense
3.Fortuitous(adj)- happening by chance
4.Prowess(n)- bravery; unusual skill or ability
5.Beset(v)- to attack on all sides; surround
6.Implacable(adj)- unyielding; not to be satisfied or relieved
7.Antipathy(n)- strong dislike; hostile
8.Ephemeral(adj)- lasting a short time; very short lived
9.Decorum(n)- proper behavior; good taste; orderliness
10.Elucidate(v)- to make clear; explain
11.Alacrity(n)- liveliness; cheerful willingness; brisk & eager action
12.Droll(adj)- amusingly odd
13.Magnanimous(adj)- generous in forgiving; above small meannesses
14.Whet(v)- to sharpen; make keen or eager
15.Reticent(adj)- not speaking freely; reserved
16.Zealous(adj)- eager; earnest; devoted
17.Voluble(adj)- characterized by a ready flow of words; fluent
18.Vehement(adj)- intense; emotional; powerful
19.Tacit(adj)- unspoken; silent; not to be expressed in words
20.Officious(adj)- meddling; excessively forward in offering services or assuming authority
21.Beret (adj)- Deprived of; made unhappy through loss
22.Fracas (n)- noisy quarrel; brawl
23.Commodious (adj)- roomy
24.Denounce (v)- to condemn strongly; speak out
25.Zenith (adj)- highest point; culminating point
26.Curtail (V)- to cut short
27.Fathom (v)- to reach an understanding of; get to the bottom; A ,measure depth in water
28.Indelible (adj) not able to be erased or removed
29.Assiduous (adj)- persistent; attentive; diligent
30.Quandary (n)- condition of being confused
31.Vitriolic (adj)- extremely biting ; sharp; bitter
32.Recalcitrant (adj)- refusing to obey rules or following orders; unmanageably resistant
33.Soothsayer (n)- a person who is able to predict the future
34.Homage (n)- Respect shown by external action
35.Portent (n)- a sign; forewarning
36.Spurn (v)- to reject; scorn
37.Affable- friendly; easy to approach; warm; affectionate
38.Impassive (adj)- without feeling or emotion
39.Placid (adj)- outwardly calm; composed; self satisfied; peaceful
40.Mutiny (n)- open rebellion against authority

This Week: 3/28 - 4/1

Monday: Finish movie (1-3) vocab assignment (6)

Tuesday: Julius Caesar Act 3, scene 1; vocabulary index cards due (1 for each word = 40)

Wednesday: Julius Caesar Act 3

Thursday: Vocabulary Test; Julius Caesar Act 3

Friday: Julius Caesar Act 3 Test; Blog due

This Week: 3/21-3/25

Monday: Act 2, scene 1

Tuesday: Act 2, scenes 2-4 HW: complete the study guides for Acts 1 and 2

Wednesday: In-Class activity pertaining to Acts 1 and 2

Thursday: TEST over Acts 1 and 2 HW: vocabulary assignment due next Tuesday

Friday: Julius Caesar movie clip and class assignment; blog due

This Week: 3/14-3/18

*This week we begin reading Julius Caesar. Each week, the reading schedule will be posted. Please adhere to the reading, even if you are absent, so that you can stop on schedule. You can find the online texts of J.C. one the right. For each Act, complete the study guide (also on the right). After each Act, you will take a test based off the study guide.

Monday - Julius Caesar Agree/Disagree writing (turned in at the end of 3rd and 6th)

Tuesday - Julius Caesar background notes

Wednesday - Act 1, scene 1

Thursday - Act 1, scene 2

Friday - Act 1, scene 3; Background quiz (from the notes); Blog due