Summative Assessment – Part 1

1. After listening to a group’s rewrite presentation, evaluate the effectiveness of the presentation using the provided criteria.
2. After reading the passage below from Julius Caesar, Act V Scene 5, lines 16 to 42, translate the dialogue into today’s formal English while maintaining the original tone and point of view of the passage.

Volumnius

What says my lord?

Brutus

Nay, I am sure it is, Voluminus.

Thou seest the world, Voluminus, how it goes.

Our enemies have beat us to the pit.

It is more worthy to leap in ourselves

Than tarry till they push us. Good Voluminus,

Though knowst that we two went to school together:

Even for that our love of old, I prithee

Hold thou sword-hilts while I run on it.

Volumnius

That’s not an office for a friend, my lord.

Alarum still.

Clitus

Fly, fly, my lord, there is no tarrying here.

Brutus

Farewell to you; and you; and you, Volumnius.

Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep:

Farewell to thee too, Strato. Countrymen:

My heart doth joy that yet in all my life.

I found no man but he was true to me.

I shall have glory by this losing day

More than Octavius and Marc Antony

By this vile conquest shall attain unto.

So fare you well at once, for Brutus’ tongue

Hath almost ended his life’s history:

Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest,

That have but laboured to attain this hour.