TIME person of the year people unit application activity

Apply concepts studied in the people unit to the TIME person of the year/runner-up that you have chosen to learn about.  Use THIS DOC to record your ideas and responses. 
This assignment will be due completed on Friday, April 13th.

Context (a product of the times)

Read one of these important speeches.  Consider the social climate and events of the time period as you read.  Following the reading, answer the questions below.

1. FDR's inaugural address
2. Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech
3. Kennedy's Statement on the Steel Crisis news conference speech
4. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I've been to the Mountaintop" speech 
5. Robert Kennedy's speech on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination
6. Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech 1851
7. Florence Kelley's speech against child labor 1905
8. Ronald Reagan's Challenger Speech
9. Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points speech
10. Susan B. Anthony On Women's Right to Vote 1872

 Evaluate the speech using SOAPSTONE:

• Who the speaker is for this speech, including his/her title/significance/background?
• When was this speech given?  Was it given on a particular occasion?
• What is he/she saying (purpose)?
• Why is he/she saying it? In other words, what is the context?  What is happening at the time period that makes the speech timely and relevant?
• How is he/she effectively bringing across his/her point (style including sentence structure, word choice, schemes and tropes, figurative language, etc.)?
• What is the tone that comes across in this speech?

TIME person of the year/runner-up study with People unit 2018

• First, read here about how the TIME person of the year is chosen. 
• Next, go to the TIME person of the year article archives and choose a person of the year or runner-up from the past five years whom you would like to learn more about.   This is a person whom you will study closely for the next week, so choose accordingly.
• TIME person of the year and runners-up 2011 
• TIME person of the year and runners-up 2012 
• TIME person of the year and runners-up 2013
• TIME person of the year and "short list" (runners-up) 2014 
• TIME person of the year and "short list" (runners-up) 2015 
• 2016 short list
• 2017 short list
• 2018 winner and short list
• Article that lists past winners 2017-2007 and links to their stories
• Learn all that you can from this source about your chosen person
• Go to additional sources to learn more about this person as well 

Use THIS DOCUMENT to record information about your TIME person of the year.  Printed copies are available in the classroom as well.

 

Reading pre20th century works

For your assignment today, please choose three authors that interested you from yesterday’s museum exhibit presentations.  If you were absent, please ask a classmate for their notes from yesterday to choose your authors.

For each author, please search to find one nonfiction piece to read by this author.  This could be in the form of an essay, a letter or diary entry, an article or pamphlet, or even a speech.

Read this piece (if it is quite long, read for about a 10 minute section of the piece).

Then, record the following:

• Author, title of the piece and publication date (approximate if need be)
• Author’s purpose and the specific sentences/sections that led you to this conclusion
• Any contributing, relevant info. about context and the author that impacts reader interpretation 
• Explain the author’s effective use of at least three of the following rhetorical techniques:  diction, syntax, tone, arrangement, appeals, figurative language

When done, you should keep these notes.

This assignment will be due completed on Tuesday.

Today’s class work

For today’s class period, please work on the following:
1.  If test corrections are not completed, please finish those first.  These corrections should be kept with testing materials in your folder.
2.  Please read in chapter three pp. 73-79 and complete the last page of the study guide.
3.  Then, use remaining time to work on researching and putting together your keynote about your pre-20th century author.  If you are unsure of which author to study, please see Mrs. Navetta and then email me the name of the author she assigns you.

Note:  Presentations for this project will be "museum-style" and you will not be presenting in front of the full class.  Your keynote should be one that has interesting graphics to illustrate your points, and a classmate should be able to read through the full presentation in about 60 seconds.

Welcome to class!

Today you will be writing a timed essay.  It should be handwritten on your legal pad from your folder, and must be completed by the end of the hour.
You will be writing in response to Question 2, Abigail Adams’ letter to her son, linked here.

When you are done, put your legal pad back in your folder.
For the remainder of the class period, you may work on test corrections or researching your pre20th century assigned author.