Collaborative Learning and the Conversation of Mankind

"Collaborative Learning and the Conversation of Mankind" by Kenneth Bruffee looked at the idea of whether or not we should have collaborative learning in the classroom, looking at the psychological and philosophical views. The main idea asked whether knowledge for us as humans is an innate gift, bred within us, or is it something we recieve by interacting with others? Brufee develops the essay by thoughts and how we are able to attain knowledge.

We have the capacity for thought- if we didn't have this gift of reason, we would be animals with instricts and desires but no fuel. Reason gives us the process for thought and why we make the decisions we make in our lives. Brufee tells us that thought is inbred in us, and gives us the ability to come up with our own thoughts.

In this article, Bruffee says knowledge is the product of a social interaction between humans. We aren't able to come up with this information unless we work with other people as well. He gives the example of a doctor with med. students, attempting to diagnose a patient. Each student try to determine what is wrong, but then the doctor tells them to work as a team to discover it. Relating to students, we each put our thoughts together to form one idea, comparing their ideas together to get a better picture. None of us know everything and it is great to learn from one another to collaborate to have better ideas and get a bigger, better picture.

content is happiness and things that are held or stored

spring=youth

summer=teen

fall-middle age

winter= old age

Catalogues Beauty~ Geoffrey of Vinsauf

Brow: seat of rationality

Eyes: soul/spirit/interior character

Lips: speech/sensuality

Neck: connector head/body

Waist: represents wealth

"i am not what i am"

Viola: "Then think you right. I am not what I am."
Olivia: "I would you were as I would have you be." (III.i.148-9)
In the garden, Olivia and Viola express their confusion. Viola cannot tell Olivia that she is a girl and cannot have Olivia tell her that she loves her. Kindly, she expresses that she is not who Olivia thinks she is, hoping Olivia will move on and stop loving Vola. The love triangle then gets complicated with two people caught in the middle. Olivia does not catch onto Violas drift because Olivia says she loves Cesario no matter what.

"yet to crush it a little"

Malvolio: "...and yet to crush it a little, it would bow to me..." (II.v.143-145)
Malvolio is in the garden reading Olivia's letter outloud. He realizes the letters MOAI mean something regarding him because M is the first letter, as it is for "Malvolio". All he wants to do is "crush" and figuring out the letter means the letters have to do with him. By "bowing" to it, he feels happy that "Olivia loves him" which is not true.

"I am the man"

Viola: "I am the man" (II.ii.25)
Viola says this line in act 2 right after Malvolio brings her the ring from Olivia. Malvolio says Viola (Cesario) can return to Olivia's house only to express Orsino's love. Viola realizes Olivia is in love with Cesario, while Viola is in love with the Duke. Viola is in complete shock because she can't believe that Olivia loves her, even thought Viola is portrayed as a man. This is where the love triangle starts.

My Montage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z995HyZU_g

Working with Data from the Shakespeare Concordance

1. What thematic strands have you located?

Disguise...conceal...veil

DISGUISE

Act 1, Scene 2

VIOLA There is a fair behavior in thee, captain;

And though that nature with a beauteous wall

Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee

I will believe thou hast a mind that suits

With this thy fair and outward character.

I prithee, and I'll pay thee bounteously,

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid

For such disguise as haply shall become

The form of my intent. I'll serve this duke:

Thou shall present me as an eunuch to him:

It may be worth thy pains; for I can sing

And speak to him in many sorts of music

That will allow me very worth his service.

What else may hap to time I will commit;

Only shape thou thy silence to my wit.

Act 2, Scene 2

VIOLA I left no ring with her: what means this lady?

Fortune forbid my outside have not charm'd her!

She made good view of me; indeed, so much,

That sure methought her eyes had lost her tongue,

For she did speak in starts distractedly.

She loves me, sure; the cunning of her passion

Invites me in this churlish messenger.

None of my lord's ring! why, he sent her none.

I am the man: if it be so, as 'tis,

Poor lady, she were better love a dream.

Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness,

Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.

How easy is it for the proper-false

In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!

Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we!

For such as we are made of, such we be.

How will this fadge? my master loves her dearly;

And I, poor monster, fond as much on him;

And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me.

What will become of this? As I am man,

My state is desperate for my master's love;

As I am woman,--now alas the day!--

What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!

O time! thou must untangle this, not I;

It is too hard a knot for me to untie!

CONCEAL

Act 1, Scene 2

VIOLA There is a fair behavior in thee, captain;

And though that nature with a beauteous wall

Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee

I will believe thou hast a mind that suits

With this thy fair and outward character.

I prithee, and I'll pay thee bounteously,

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid

For such disguise as haply shall become

The form of my intent. I'll serve this duke:

Thou shall present me as an eunuch to him:

It may be worth thy pains; for I can sing

And speak to him in many sorts of music

That will allow me very worth his service.

What else may hap to time I will commit;

Only shape thou thy silence to my wit.

Act 4, Scene 3

OLIVIA Blame not this haste of mine. If you mean well,

Now go with me and with this holy man

Into the chantry by: there, before him,

And underneath that consecrated roof,

Plight me the full assurance of your faith;

That my most jealous and too doubtful soul

May live at peace. He shall conceal it

Whiles you are willing it shall come to note,

What time we will our celebration keep

According to my birth. What do you say?

VEIL

Act 1, Scene 5

OLIVIA Give me my veil: come, throw it o'er my face.

We'll once more hear Orsino's embassy.

2. Where is the data you retrieved found? What is happening in context when Shakespeare employs this particular theme or image?

All of these, except one, are said by Viola (the only character in the play to put on a real "mask", becoming Cesario). In context, Viola is thinking to herself about the disguises, or Olivia is wondering about the disguise, or she is putting on a veil.

3. How does the data you retrieved support your first thoughts on Shakespeare's obsessive use of a particular image? What can you argue about Shakespeare's figuration?

Shakespeare likes to bring up recurring images, and often uses figurations to portray an idea.

The first day of march.

The Properties of Arguments:

-Claim; the assetion has been made that something has to be believed, or chosen, or done.

-There is a reason(s) for a claim, the assetion has been made of something supporting what is to be believed, chosen or done

-Reason(s) is(are) linguistically explicable and overtly expressed

-The claim is linguistically explicable

-An attempt to communicate the claim and reason(s)