Shakespeare & The Lost Tools of Writing, Level II
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About the course
In this course your student will continue their study of classical rhetoric with the judicial address. Instruction in the fall will begin with review of Level One material. Next, the students will begin their study of the judicial address utilizing new invention, arrangement, and elocution skills.
During this course, the students will not only practice writing, they will practice judging well. Level Two addresses will include explorations of the special topics, justice, evidence, laws, and motive. With each new address, the student will be asked to refine their thinking and their writing.
Students will read, discuss, and write about Shakespeare’s plays while practicing the art of making good judgment.
Course Prerequisites:
Satisfactory completion of LTW I. If an LTW I course was taken with another instructor, then the student must have a referral from their previous instructor.
Course Objectives:
- Utilize the Special Topics of Invention
- Recognize and use 12 new elocution tools which includes: terminating sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, citations, and various schemes and tropes
- Write seven judicial essays
- Practice orderly thinking and reasoning skills
- Encounter Shakespeare’s plays through reading, discussing, and writing
- Use the highlighting system for reading
Texts:
- Lost Tools of Writing II Student Workbook, updated version
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Folger Edition), ISBN: 9780743477123
- Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (Folger Edition), ISBN: 9780743482745
- Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (Folger Edition), ISBN: 0743482752
- Henry V by William Shakespeare (Folger Edition), ISBN: 9781982109417
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