Monday, October 14, 2013

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
(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)





 

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