FAST Practice passage

As you know, the FAST has a variety of passages to read and answer questions. Here is what to do:
- Read slowly. Read it again.
- Break it into chunks.
- Translate what you read on your note paper.
- Look for repeating words or ideas.
- Look for context clues.
- Ask yourself what the writer is trying to accomplish with their writing.

Let's practice:

​-Read slowly. Read it again.
- Break it into chunks.
- Translate what you read on your note paper.
- Look for repeating words or ideas.
- Look for context clues.
- Ask yourself: what the writer is trying to accomplish with their writing?

​From “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare (abridged)

​From “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare (abridged)

​From “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare (abridged)

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I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones;

So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus

Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Caesar answered it.

​Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;