Sandwiches Cause Violence

Quote Of The Day

During Language Arts (LA, basically English) class today, the teacher was going through excerpt 7 exercise of Julius Caesar.

This excerpt was from Act 5 Scene 3. Where Cassius commited suicide (indirectly).

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PINDARUS
[Above] Titinius is enclosed round about
With horsemen, that make to him on the spur;
Yet he spurs on. Now they are almost on him.
Now, Titinius! Now some light. O, he lights too.
He's ta'en.

Shout

And, hark! they shout for joy.

Cassius
Come down, behold no more.
O, coward that I am, to live so long,
To see my best friend ta'en before my face!

PINDARUS descends

Come hither, sirrah:
In Parthia did I take thee prisoner;
And then I swore thee, saving of my life,
That whatsoever I did bid thee do,
Thou shouldst attempt it. Come now, keep thine oath;
Now be a freeman: and with this good sword,
That ran through Caesar's bowels, search thing bosom.
Stand not to answer: here, take thou the hilts;
And, when my face is cover'd, as 'tis now,
Guide thou the sword.

PINDARUS stabs him

Caesar, thou art revenged,
Even with the sword that kill'd thee.

Dies

(And more but I'm too lazy to write them.)

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There was a question in the work sheet "Why was Cassius' death ironic? Select any of the options that apply:"

One of the options was "Cassius was killed on his birthday."

Our LA teacher, Ms N. asked a student to explain why he thought it was an irony, and explain how the irony works.

While discussing, another student, Rahul, shouted "Out of the womb, into the womb."

So here's the Quote Of The Day (QOTD)

"Out of the womb, into the tomb."
                                   ~Rahul, 2020

Continuing on, Ms N. introduced the different kinds of irony, the verbal irony, the dramatic irony, and the situational irony. Verbal irony was sarcasm, she said, "Speaking of this, let's revise tones."

She wrote on the whiteboard, a header "Tones".

"Ok, one example of irony is sarcasm. Can yall think of more?" Ms N. raised a question to the class.

"Depressed"

"Angry"

"Impatient"

"Disappointing"

Some students answered her question and threw out ideas.

At this moment, the usual 'suspect', Cal, shouted out, "Seductive!"

Ms N. seemed taken aback for a second, then she replied, "Uh, I mean, yes, that's a tone, well.."

She turned to the class, half exasperated and half on the verge of laughing, and she gave a shaky exclamation as she wrote it down on the whiteboard, "You all ah... you're only 14 year-olds, goodness, can you please clean what's in your minds everyday??!"

Ok the end. I hope y'all found this funny, I tried making this chapter longer XD.