Monday, March 26, 2012

Day 56: 26 March 2012

How does what Brutus says in his soliloquy reveal about his logic?

1. Consider the first six words and last six words of his speech.
  • What do they mean literally?
2. Establish that words and actions betray character, personality and ultimately argument structure.
  • Evil for Brutus is emotion-driven thinking
  • Good is reasoned thinking 
  • In this argument though, good in this case isn't good enough.
  • According to George Boggs, Argument is personality played out in language
  • Person+Text = Argument
  • Examined the first three blocks of thought and the conjunctions that hold it together.
It must be by his [Caesar's] death and I know no personal cause to spurn him but for the general

  • Summarized the yellow
  • Look at how the red indicates the pattern of his thought.
  • The first three thoughts reveal one of his main arguments that the individual is less important than the society.
3. Individuals to explore the speech for other patterns
  • shared 2 from the class work
4. Groups of students to determine the chunks of the speech.
5. Use 15 words to describe the argument pattern in his speech.

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