Gents: After a lovely series of technical difficulties (including the furor over Tyler and Mark setting the bar high for presentations with a Prezi... A PREZI), we launched into our first day of Shakespearean rhetoric and analysis.
Some highlights:
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Some highlights:
- Falstaff is a bumpkin, but he utilizes a lovely question / answer self-exploration to demonstrate that honor isn't a tangible prize to be enjoyed by the living. He furthered this with personification, demonstrating, as Evan said, what honor cannot achieve (I.E. keeping those who have battled for it healthy in the physical and psychological arenas).
- There's more than meets the eye when it comes to Sir Falstaff; despite his role as the comic relief, he achieves some degree of philosophical inquiry in his solitary moments, reaching what Kyle calls a "countercultural" set of values about battle.
- Henry V's speech largely demonstrates pathos-based appeals to his soldiers sense of brotherhood ("We band of brothers"), virility / manhood (he throws down the man-gauntlet at the end of the speech to challenge those who aren't battling), and desire to live forever as the heroes of St. Crispin's Day.
- Bill Pullman's speech in Independence Day and Mel Gibson's in Braveheart demonstrate similar appeals to ideals and fortuitous dates (Independence Day... St. Crispin's Day...) in the history of the respective audiences.
- For the discussion of honor today: 1.) Synthesize what you heard in the pieces of rhetoric today. What did you hear? What are some rhetorical trends in speeches dealing with honor? Engage the text here; utilize specific lines from each to demonstrate your ideas and understanding of the rhetoric. 2.) Connect these rhetorical appeals / strategies and themes with other classes / topics / similar speeches. 3.) Evaluate Mark and Tyler's presentation (in a few sentences...this can be brief!).
- For the upcoming quarter project: Write a paragraph in which you explain what argument / idea you're going to derive from the documentary you watched and analyzed. After educating yourself more about the topic via your documentary, what would you like to argue? To whom would you like to argue? How? Explain.
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