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This week my class and I were given the task to make an argumentative portfolio to prepare to write a argument paper about either The Tempest or Hamilton: The Musical. In this blog I will analyze one of the articles I am going to use in my paper. One of the articles I will useContinue reading “Blog #11: Analysis 1”

As this week concludes, my group and I have been working together produce a project proposal for a new adaptation of The Tempest by William Shakespeare. My group and I were given the task to create a presentation as well as a proposal letter. During this process, we noticed that the use of rhetoric inContinue reading “Blog #10: Rhetoric in a Proposal v. a Paper”

This past week, my class and I completed reading and analyzing one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays called The Tempest. Shakespeare has been deceased for about four-hundred years however, his work still lives on as schools and teachers make it a priority for students to learn about Shakespeare. The most important takeaway from analyzing Shakespeare’sContinue reading “Blog #9:Shakespeare Reflection & Rhetoric”

For the past few weeks, my class and I have been reading one of Shakespeare’s plays called The Tempest. Shakespeare writes his plays to make it where the reader gets to decide and depict the nature of the characters. In The Tempest, this is seen through the likes of Caliban, Ariel, Miranda, and so on.Continue reading “Blog #7: Rhetoric in The Tempest (Acts III-IV)”

After the completion of Hamilton, my class and I are beginning to study the works of William Shakespeare and the question we were first presented with was, ”Why is it important to learn or teach about Shakespeare?” Through this blog, I have decided to tackle this question through several aspects, kinda like Shakespeare would butContinue reading “Blog #3: Why should we study Shakespeare?”

For the past few weeks, my class and I have been analyzing rhetoric used in the musical Hamilton. I have never seen the musical live but through listening to the songs and reading the lyrics from the first two acts, I have encountered this to be an enjoyable experience. My prior knowledge of Alexander Hamilton’sContinue reading “Blog #2: Hamilton and Rhetoric”

Returning to Class The 2nd semester of Dual English 1301-1302 began on Wednesday, January 22nd. Through the course of the week, my classmates and I quickly started to integrate ourselves back into the class and pick up from where we left last semester. During class on Wednesday, we went through the syllabus and changes fromContinue reading “Blog #1: Back to Dual English”