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1. ELIT 17 Class 20
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2. AGENDA
 Recitations
 Discussion
 Hip-Hop and Shakespeare?
 Self-assessment on homework

3. Recitations

4. Count Down
Class 20 Today
 Hip-Hop and
Shakespeare?
 Discussion: Homework
Grades
Friday, week 10 at noon
 Essay 1 Revisions due
via Kaizena
Class 21
o Homework Self-Assessments
due
o Exam 3 Preparation
o Final paper discussion
Final: See class countdown
calendar
Essay #2 Due Before Class
o Exam #3 Comprehensive

5. In
Groups
 Discuss your
answers to the
questions
concerning “Of
Cannibals”

6. Gonzalo, as Act 5 shows, has never
approved of what was done to Prospero.
In his speech in 2.1 (on the ideal
commonwealth, echoing Montaigne’s
essay Of Cannibals), he expresses
distaste for the more cynical and divisive
features of government and society—
exploitation of labor, expropriation of
land and extremes of luxury, poverty,
drunkenness, gluttony. Discuss
Gonzalo’s speech in the context of
Montaigne’s essay.

7. GONZALO: I’ th’ commonwealth I would by contraries
Execute all things, for no kind of traffic
Would I admit; no name of magistrate;
Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,
And use of service, none; contract, succession,
Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;
No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;
No occupation; all men idle, all,
And women too, but innocent and pure;
No sovereignty—
[…]
GONZALO: All things in common nature should produce
Without sweat or endeavor; treason, felony,
Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine
Would I not have; but nature should bring forth
Of its own kind all foison, all abundance,
To feed my innocent people.
[…]
GONZALO: I would with such perfection govern, sir,
T’ excel the Golden Age.
2.1.164-184

8. Questions
The play can be read as Shakespeare’s commentary on European
exploration of new lands. Prospero lands on an island with a native
inhabitant, Caliban, a being he considers savage and uncivilized. He
teaches this “native” his language and customs, but this nurturing does
not affect the creature’s nature, at least from Prospero’s point of view.
But Prospero does not drive Caliban away, rather he enslaves him,
forcing him to do work he considers beneath himself and his noble
daughter. As modern readers, sensitive to the legacy of colonialism, we
need to ask if Shakespeare sees this as the right order; what are his views
of imperialism and colonialism? What are our twentieth century reactions
to the depiction of the relationship between the master and slave, shown
in this play? How does Montaigne’s essay complicate our view of
colonialism?

9. Questions
The theme of Utopianism is linked to the
explorations of new lands. Europeans were
intrigued with the possibilities presented for
new beginnings in these “new” lands. Was it
possible to create an ideal state when given a
chance to begin anew? Could humans hope to
recreate a “golden age,” in places not yet
subject to the ills of European social order?
Could there be different forms of government?
Consider both Shakespeare’s The Tempest and
Montaigne’s Of Cannibals in your response.

10. Hip-Hop and Shakespeare?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSbtkLA3GrY
Hip Hop and Shakespeare 20 mins

11. Comments on Video
What caught your
attention?
What did you learn?
What do you
wonder?
Let me
ask you!

12. • The website post points (100) require self-assessment.
Consider three aspects of your responses:
• First, how many of the posts did you make?
• Second, what was the quality of your response?
• Third, how timely were your submissions?
• Write a brief justification of your grade. You may post
this on Kaizena comments.
• Due Before Class 21
Self-Assessment

13. Here is the Math!
 Figure your final grade this way: 100/19= 5.26 points per post. Subtract half
or 2.63 points for each late post (48 hours after the due time. There are no
points awarded for posts more than 48 hours late). Then, multiply the total
times the average grade percentage for the quality of your work.
 Example
 Posts completed: 19 x 5.26 points = 100 points
 Late posts: 1 x 2.63 = 2.63
 Subtract the smaller from the larger: 100-2.63 = 97.37
 Quality of posts: A or 94% (Quality only exceeds 94% if you have positive
comments from me.)
 Multiply the total times the quality: 97.37 x 94%= 91.52 =92/100.

14. Work on
final paper
Study for
Exam 3