Now that we have finished reading Othello, we would like to have a chance to discuss the culminating project.

The Writing Lab for this module is scheduled for Monday, December 13th, 2021. Your teacher will send you the locations and times for this lab prior to this day. Sessions will be recorded and posted here after that date if you are unable to make the session.

The final writing activity for the module ask students to either choose a speech or two speeches by the same character, identify the rhetorical situation (occasion, speaker, audience, purpose), and write an essay analyzing the speaker’s use of language and rhetorical strategies appropriate to the rhetorical situation.

The writing lab recording is below. Unfortunately, the system sound was not recorded.

Review the list of speeches below. Choose any two that you feel comfortable discussing rhetorically. What strategies did the speaker use? What part of the rhetorical situation helped to make that speech powerful?

Othello

Act 1, scene 3, lines 91-111
Act 1, scene 3, lines 149-196
Act 2, scene 1, lines199-209 and 213-217
Act 3, scene 4, lines 65-79 and 81-87
Act 4, scene 2, lines 57-74
Act 5, scene 2, ll. 397-417

Desdemona

Act 1, scene 3 lines 209-218 and 283-294
Act 3, scene 3, lines 68-82 and 85-92
Act 4, scene 2, lines 175-193

Cassio

Act 2, scene 1, lines 82-96
Act 3, scene 4, lines 128-140

Iago

Act 1, scene 3, lines 361-375 and 377-404
Act 2, scene 1, lines 242-270
Act 2, scene 3, lines 235-261
Act 3, scene 3, lines 170-180 and 182-190
Act 3, scene 3, lines 224-236
Act 3, scene 3, lines 285-296
Act 3, scene 3, lines 468-482
Act 4, scene 1, lines 91-106