last week at speech and debate Sam did not teach a lesion instead we spent the whole class getting ready for the tournament, so I spent that time getting my oratory speech perfected.
At Shakespeare we all got to wear our Halloween costumes, and the creepiest costume was London's he was dressed as a lady from a video game and he looked sssssooooo scary sitting on the couch glaring at us in his wig through the veil he was wearing, it was ssoo realistic that I had a hard time recognizing him.
That week we learned about acting like your character, we also got to act out scenes of Shakespeare plays that were pretty crazy. this is the one that we did. I played Tamora
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
Rome's emperor, and nephew, break the parle;
These quarrels must be quietly debated.
The feast is ready, which the careful Titus
Hath ordain'd to an honourable end,
For peace, for love, for league, and good to Rome:
Please you, therefore, draw nigh, and take your places.
SATURNINUS
Marcus, we will.
Hautboys sound. The Company sit down at table
Enter TITUS dressed like a Cook, LAVINIA veiled, Young LUCIUS, and others. TITUS places the dishes on the table
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Welcome, my gracious lord; welcome, dread queen;
Welcome, ye warlike Goths; welcome, Lucius;
And welcome, all: although the cheer be poor,
'Twill fill your stomachs; please you eat of it.
SATURNINUS
Why art thou thus attired, Andronicus?
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Because I would be sure to have all well,
To entertain your highness and your empress.
TAMORA
We are beholding to you, good Andronicus.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
An if your highness knew my heart, you were.
My lord the emperor, resolve me this:
Was it well done of rash Virginius
To slay his daughter with his own right hand,
Because she was enforced, stain'd, and deflower'd?
SATURNINUS
It was, Andronicus.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Your reason, mighty lord?
SATURNINUS
Because the girl should not survive her shame,
And by her presence still renew his sorrows.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
A reason mighty, strong, and effectual;
A pattern, precedent, and lively warrant,
For me, most wretched, to perform the like.
Die, die, Lavinia, and thy shame with thee;
Kills LAVINIA
And, with thy shame, thy father's sorrow die!
SATURNINUS
What hast thou done, unnatural and unkind?
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Kill'd her, for whom my tears have made me blind.
I am as woful as Virginius was,
And have a thousand times more cause than he
To do this outrage: and it now is done.
SATURNINUS
What, was she ravish'd? tell who did the deed.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Will't please you eat? will't please your
highness feed?
TAMORA
Why hast thou slain thine only daughter thus?
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Not I; 'twas Chiron and Demetrius:
They ravish'd her, and cut away her tongue;
And they, 'twas they, that did her all this wrong.
SATURNINUS
Go fetch them hither to us presently.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Why, there they are both, baked in that pie;
Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
'Tis true, 'tis true; witness my knife's sharp point.
Kills TAMORA
SATURNINUS
Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed!
Kills TITUS
LUCIUS
Can the son's eye behold his father bleed?
There's meed for meed, death for a deadly deed!
Kills SATURNINUS. A great tumult. LUCIUS, MARCUS, and others go up into the balcony
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
You sad-faced men, people and sons of Rome,
By uproar sever'd, like a flight of fowl
Scatter'd by winds and high tempestuous gusts,
O, let me teach you how to knit again
This scatter'd corn into one mutual sheaf,
These broken limbs again into one body;
Lest Rome herself be bane unto herself,
And she whom mighty kingdoms court'sy to,
Like a forlorn and desperate castaway,
Do shameful execution on herself.
But if my frosty signs and chaps of age,
Grave witnesses of true experience,
Cannot induce you to attend my words,
in my opinion it was a pretty crazy seen.
that Saturday was the tournament for speech and debate, I was in oratory, and had a lot a lot of fun.
this is my oratory speech;
Attention getting device
“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.”
~Edward P. Morgan
“Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.”
~Jesse Lee Bennett
Thesis (ill)
In these modern times we face a great paradox: We have more access to the knowledge of the world than at any other time yet we as a nation are reading less on average now than at any other time in the history of America,
So consequently we have less familiarity with the knowledge of the world.(pause) If you think about it everything you learn is in one way or another linked to reading,(little pause) after all wouldn't you say that written language, is a discovery grater than television, modern vehicles, the railway, or even the wheel.
Point 1 (cause) Their are two main causes of this problem.
Number one video games, and T.V. (little pause) we as a nation are playing more and more video games, and watching more and more T.V. shows, in fact according to the A.C. Nielsen Company, the average American watches more than four hours of television per day. If you do the math, that’s two full months per year!!! think of all that wasted time.(pause) Andrew Ross said; ‘The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.” (large pause)
It used to be that we read books for entertainment, the young children would read little books like “Magic Tree House,” or “The Grimm Fairy Tales,” than as they became older they read books like “Little House on the Prairie,” “Secret Garden,” and “Lord of the Rings,” so by the time they went to high school, or college and started reading, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and
“Les Miserables”, they were ready because of all the reading they had when they were young. Their entertainment got them somewhere, but today our entertainment of video games and T.V. doesn't do anything for us but waste time.
Number two children are being forced to read in school, and when any one is forced to do something, after a while they lose their ability to do it on their own without being forced. Another thing that can happen is that they fight it tooth and nail their whole school life, and when they leave school and the force is taken away they just stop reading, this sort of thing happens so often that; 33% of high school graduates will never read a book after high school.
and 42% of college students will never read another book after they graduate,
Point 2 (significance) (slow down, it makes your speech longer) Because of this we spend less time reading,
Apparently, we spend so much less time reading that According to the “2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress (or N.A.E.P. for short), 37 percent of fourth graders and 26 percent of eighth graders cannot read at the basic level; and on the 2002 N.A.E.P. 26 percent of twelfth graders cannot read at the basic level. That is, when reading grade appropriate text these students cannot extract the general meaning or make obvious connections between the text and their own experiences or make simple inferences[in-fer-uhns,] from the text. In other words, they cannot understand
what they have read.” and, did you know that
“46% of American adults cannot understand the label on their prescription medicine”and
“50 percent of American adults are unable to read an eighth grade level book.” isn’t that shocking!?!? half of the adults in America can’t read books written for thirteen year olds!!! thats not all apparently, in “To Read or Not To Read, A Question of National Consequence” Research Report #47 by National Endowment for the Arts, it states;
“17-year-old average reading scores began a slow downward trend in 1992.” it also says;
in 1992 the amount of 17 year olds Reading at or Above the Proficient Level was 40%,
however in 2005 the amount of 17 year olds Reading at or Above the Proficient Level was 35%, (big pause) with Rate of decline at 13%”
Point 3 (cure) (not to fast) how do we get off this downward slope to an illiterate society?
four words; read to your children!. By reading to your children, you are showing them that reading is important, and planting the seeds that grow into a love of reading, and a love of reading is just about the best tool anyone can have at any age, from about 6-9 it helps them develop reading skills that are essential to success in later life. From about 10-19 it helps them gain their own opinion on society, and the way we live, and what things can be done to help us improve ourselves. and from about 20-88, it helps them gain knowledge and learn new things, even after they stop going to school. And when they have children of their own, they will read to them because they love reading, which will help their kids have a love of reading, and so the cycle will continue, till our nation begins reading again.
We also need to read ourselves, even if it’s just 15 minutes a day. Helping this nation get back on it’s feet, as far as reading goes will take everyone working at it, and you are part of everyone.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I’d like to do just one more quote by Elbert Hubbard.
“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”(big pause) Our nation is on a steep downward slope as far as reading goes, and to fix this we need to read to our children, and to help them develop a love of reading, so they will help their kids do the same. We also need to watch less T.V.and read more books ourselves. After all;
“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.” ~Chinese Proverb
“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.”
~Edward P. Morgan
“Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.”
~Jesse Lee Bennett
Thesis (ill)
In these modern times we face a great paradox: We have more access to the knowledge of the world than at any other time yet we as a nation are reading less on average now than at any other time in the history of America,
So consequently we have less familiarity with the knowledge of the world.(pause) If you think about it everything you learn is in one way or another linked to reading,(little pause) after all wouldn't you say that written language, is a discovery grater than television, modern vehicles, the railway, or even the wheel.
Point 1 (cause) Their are two main causes of this problem.
Number one video games, and T.V. (little pause) we as a nation are playing more and more video games, and watching more and more T.V. shows, in fact according to the A.C. Nielsen Company, the average American watches more than four hours of television per day. If you do the math, that’s two full months per year!!! think of all that wasted time.(pause) Andrew Ross said; ‘The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.” (large pause)
It used to be that we read books for entertainment, the young children would read little books like “Magic Tree House,” or “The Grimm Fairy Tales,” than as they became older they read books like “Little House on the Prairie,” “Secret Garden,” and “Lord of the Rings,” so by the time they went to high school, or college and started reading, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and
“Les Miserables”, they were ready because of all the reading they had when they were young. Their entertainment got them somewhere, but today our entertainment of video games and T.V. doesn't do anything for us but waste time.
Number two children are being forced to read in school, and when any one is forced to do something, after a while they lose their ability to do it on their own without being forced. Another thing that can happen is that they fight it tooth and nail their whole school life, and when they leave school and the force is taken away they just stop reading, this sort of thing happens so often that; 33% of high school graduates will never read a book after high school.
and 42% of college students will never read another book after they graduate,
Point 2 (significance) (slow down, it makes your speech longer) Because of this we spend less time reading,
Apparently, we spend so much less time reading that According to the “2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress (or N.A.E.P. for short), 37 percent of fourth graders and 26 percent of eighth graders cannot read at the basic level; and on the 2002 N.A.E.P. 26 percent of twelfth graders cannot read at the basic level. That is, when reading grade appropriate text these students cannot extract the general meaning or make obvious connections between the text and their own experiences or make simple inferences[in-fer-uhns,] from the text. In other words, they cannot understand
what they have read.” and, did you know that
“46% of American adults cannot understand the label on their prescription medicine”and
“50 percent of American adults are unable to read an eighth grade level book.” isn’t that shocking!?!? half of the adults in America can’t read books written for thirteen year olds!!! thats not all apparently, in “To Read or Not To Read, A Question of National Consequence” Research Report #47 by National Endowment for the Arts, it states;
“17-year-old average reading scores began a slow downward trend in 1992.” it also says;
in 1992 the amount of 17 year olds Reading at or Above the Proficient Level was 40%,
however in 2005 the amount of 17 year olds Reading at or Above the Proficient Level was 35%, (big pause) with Rate of decline at 13%”
Point 3 (cure) (not to fast) how do we get off this downward slope to an illiterate society?
four words; read to your children!. By reading to your children, you are showing them that reading is important, and planting the seeds that grow into a love of reading, and a love of reading is just about the best tool anyone can have at any age, from about 6-9 it helps them develop reading skills that are essential to success in later life. From about 10-19 it helps them gain their own opinion on society, and the way we live, and what things can be done to help us improve ourselves. and from about 20-88, it helps them gain knowledge and learn new things, even after they stop going to school. And when they have children of their own, they will read to them because they love reading, which will help their kids have a love of reading, and so the cycle will continue, till our nation begins reading again.
We also need to read ourselves, even if it’s just 15 minutes a day. Helping this nation get back on it’s feet, as far as reading goes will take everyone working at it, and you are part of everyone.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I’d like to do just one more quote by Elbert Hubbard.
“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”(big pause) Our nation is on a steep downward slope as far as reading goes, and to fix this we need to read to our children, and to help them develop a love of reading, so they will help their kids do the same. We also need to watch less T.V.and read more books ourselves. After all;
“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.” ~Chinese Proverb
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