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Before the meeting, watch the video from 16:00 - 22:00. In a comment on this post, briefly address the following questions:
During the meeting, we will look over some Public Forum Debate Resources (feel free to start now) for the February upcoming debate and do some practice debating. Familiarize yourself with debate styles.
This is just an awesome example of the rhetorical strategies we were discussing. There is no assignment related to it because this is a pretty crazy week. Just have fun reading it and see if you can identify where the speaker is manipulating his audience. Then go ahead and read the rest of Julius Caesar, probably my favorite Shakespearean play.
Speech Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; 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 answer’d it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest– For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men– Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me. RELATED CONTENTDiscover this poem’s context and related poetry, articles, and media. POET William Shakespeare 1564–1616 POET’S REGION England SCHOOL / PERIOD Renaissance Thursday, Dec. 3
4pm to 5pm Room 113 - First floor history room Before the meeting: Watch the Debate Club Playlist on Critical Thinking. There are 6 videos. For each video: 1. Take notes during the video 2. When you're done, write one sentence in which you explain the main idea of the video. It may take you a few tries, but make sure your sentences are concise and sufficient. 3. Be ready to discuss the videos at the first club meeting. Begin familiarizing yourself with this chart. Pick one rhetorical fallacy that you'd like to share at the first meeting. Words you'll need to know: Appeal Faulty Deduction Manipulate Ad Hoc Garbled Use the comments section below to ask questions |
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