Windmills & Giants

We will begin a series of classic rhetorical exercises tomorrow.  Here is a list of the exercises from our favorite rhetoric resource, Silva Rhetoricae.

Your homework for tonight is to read a short fable of your choice, committing it to memory.  We will share them in class tomorrow, and write them down at the end of the period.  This exercise is intended to entertain us all while we work on recall and organizing a narrative on the fly.  Please do not spend too much time going over the original fable; just understand the story and feel free to extemporize while delivering it to the class.  Have fun with this one.  Also, if you choose a fable after reading this, post the name so we don't all do the tortoise and the hare.