1. What were the three Civil Rights Amendments and what did they guarantee
under the law?
2. Explain how the court ruling of Plessy vs. Ferguson lead to continued
segregation in the United States.
3. What was the effect of the court ruling of Brown v. Board of Education?
4. What actions were taken by the African American community following the
arrest of Rosa Parks?
Root: CenteriMeaning: center
Example: eccentricnot central behavior
(lively/crazy).
About the Speech
1. Uses Allusions
2. Uses Figurative
Language
3. Is not only about the
words but the tone
and presentation style
Allusions
References to others texts, songs, or events
Biblical Allusions
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Amos 5:24 (NIV): “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a
never-failing stream!”
Isaiah 40:4-5 (KJV): “Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain
and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and
the rough places plain….”
Psalm 30:5 (NIV): “…weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes
in the morning.”
Galatians 3:28 (NIV): “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor
free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Gettysburg Address
• Beginning with the now-iconic phrase "Four score and seven
years ago“
• —referring to the Declaration of Independence, written at the
start of the American Revolution in 1776—
• Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States:
"government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth."
My Country Tis’ of Thee
1
My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From ev'ry mountainside
Let freedom ring!
2
My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills,
Like that above.
3
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom's song;
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
4
Our fathers' God to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing.
Long may our land be bright,
With freedom's holy light,
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God our King.
My Country Tis of Thee
*written 1831
*Patriotic Song