Today, we will be reading and analyzing some great speeches.
We will use the following links:
Lincoln's Reaction and Martin Luther King's "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech
Elie Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
FDR's First Inaugural Address
Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech
For each speech, you will be reading and taking notes as to:
1. Basic details of time, occasion, and how context plays a role in what is being said
2. Claim, supports for claim
3. Rhetorical devices and how these are intended to impact the audience
4. Significance in the greater realm of history
For homework, please read chapter one of "The World House" by Martin Luther King, Jr.
& answer the same questions from above on the wkst. provided.
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