Editing your social issues paper

Use the following checklist for editing your social issues paper:
Social Issues Paper Revision Checklist

Welcome to class!

In my absence today, you will be writing in response to the 2012 prompt for question 2.  It is most important to evaluate how Kennedy is using rhetorical techniques to achieve his purpose.
For this essay, you should plan to:
1.  Explain Kennedy's purpose
2.  Examine the role that context plays in the speech
3.  Consider some/all of the points listed on the board (that we have been using to evaluate other speeches this week)
4.  Include each of the vocabulary words in your essay...
* Please write these instructions and vocabulary words in the margin of your essay paper and then close your iPads for the writing of the essay.

implies

employs

characterizes

intimidates

counters

extends

underscores

recalls

illustrates

evokes

When done, please turn in your essay to the inbox and work on planning for your social issues paper.  

To be ready for tomorrow...

SOCIAL ISSUES PROJECT:
Aim to have your social issues book completed for tomorrow.
Bring your log of appeals and Toulmin's model for your book to class with you.
Bring your book to class with you.

VOCABULARY WORDS & SPEECHES:
Be sure you have read both speeches.
Bring notes from yesterday's short group discussion.
For second speech, make a short summary of the following points:
1.  Techniques used by the speaker to include audience and tap into cultural memory
2.  Appeals used by the speaker
3.  Claims and grounds for support
4.  Word choice and organizational techniques that are effective
Whenever possible, add in vocabulary words as they apply to this speech:
Words:

implies

employs

characterizes

intimidates

counters

extends

underscores

recalls

illustrates

evokes

Please read the assigned speeches below (each student has TWO assigned speeches).

For EACH SPEECH:
1.  Record how TOULMIN'S MODEL applies
2.  Consider and record notes about the CONTEXT in which the speech was delivered, including events of social, political, economic, envrionmental, or cultural significance at the time
2.  Examine how CULTURAL MEMORY is reflected in the speech, and how the speech itself is representative of an aspect of cultural memory for the time period in which it was given

Cultural Memory & speeches

FDR's inaugural address

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5057/
(assigned to: Claudia, Eli, Jazlyn, Matthew, Oceanna, Caitlyn, Esther)

Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech

http://alvaradohistory.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/1IronCurtainspeech.362195233.pdf
(assigned to:  Caitlin, Oceanna, Matthew, Josh, Morgan, Taylor)

Kennedy's Inaugural Address speech

http://www.ushistory.org/documents/ask-not.htm

(assigned to:  Taylor, Morgan, Josh, Virginia, Danielle, Emily)
 

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s  "I Have a Dream" speech

http://www.ushistory.org/documents/i-have-a-dream.htm
(assigned to: Emily, Danielle, Virginia, Kennady, Hanna, Michaela)

Robert Kennedy's speech on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination

http://www.robertfkennedy.net/mlkdeathspeech.htm
(assigned to:  Michaela, Hanna, Kennady, Ike, Anna, Brianna)

Reagan's Challenger tragedy speech

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/speech-on-the-challenger-disaster/
(assigned to:  Brianna, Anna, Ike, Esther, Jazlyn, Eli, Claudia)