Share a Speech Project
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1. Go to www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches.html.
2. Find five speeches in which you are interested. Circle or highlight them on this paper. Read them and
select three which you think are the most persuasive.
3. A drawing will be held to decide who selects first. Once your name is drawn, tell Mrs. Rotker your first,
second and third choices, and see which speeches are available. Each student will select one speech for
the project (no duplications allowed).
4. Once your speech is determined, print a copy and save it to your jump drive.
5. Read the speech and evaluate the rhetorical devices, mood and tone of the speech.
6. How does the speech persuade? What exactly is the speaker trying to persuade the audience to do?
Who is the audience? Is it a successful persuasive speech? Why or why not?
7. Write an essay or do a powerpoint which incorporates the elements of persuasion into your presentation
to explain why your speech is the most persuasive from those listed below. ELA11LSV2.d
8. Practice reading the speech out loud. A video camera may be available if you want to practice reading
out loud. Be prepared to share an excerpt from the speech and your evaluation with the class.
9. Completed projects are due on Monday, March 14th. Project is worth one assessment grade.
Guiding Questions for Speech Research
___Identify evidence (diction, imagery, point of view, mood, figurative language,
symbolism, etc) in the speech. What effect did it have by the speaker using this
evidence?
___What was the speaker up against? What is the occasion for the speech?
___What did the author have to keep in mind when composing the text?
___What where his or her goals?
___What was his or her ultimate purpose?
___What was his or her intent?
Scoring
This project is worth one assessment grade. Make sure you can show exactly how you
contributed in each of the areas below. Turn in this page when you submit your project.
Identify evidence (diction, imagery, point of view, mood, symbolism, etc.)
40 points______
Deliver oral presentation that incorporates the elements of persuasion
20 points______
Deliver focused, coherent, polished presentation with a distinct perspective
20 points______
Formulates reasoned judgments about written communication
10 points______
Explain why your speech is the most persuasive
10 points______
FINAL GRADE
Comments:
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List of Speeches from
www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches.html
Bella Abzug
Plenary Address, Fourth World Congress on Women
(1995)
John Adams
Inaugural Address (1797)
Jane Addams
The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements
(1892)
The Modern Lear (1896)
Susan B. Anthony
On Women's Right to Vote (1872)
John Brown
Final Address to the Court (1859)
William Jennings Bryan
The White Man's Burden (1906)
Imperialism (1908)
Stokely Carmichael
Black Power (1966)
Carrie Chapman Catt
The Crisis (1916)
Speech Before Congress (1917)
Chief Joseph
Surrender Speech (1877)
Shirley Chisholm
Equal Rights for Women (1969)
For the Equal Rights Amendment (1970)
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Wellesley College Student Commencement Speech
(1969)
Women's Rights Are Human Rights (1995)
Abraham Lincoln
A House Divided (1858)
Address at the Cooper Institute (1860)
First Inaugural Address (1861)
Gettysburg Address (1863)
Malcolm X
Black Man's History (1962)
Message to the Grassroots (1963)
The Ballot or the Bullet (1964)
Speech at Ford Theater (after his house
was bombed) (1965)
Nelson Mandela
Address to the Conference of the PanAfrican Freedom Movement (1962)
Release from Prison (1990)
Nobel Peace Prize Address (1993)
Clarina Howard Nichols
The Responsibilities of Woman (1851)
Red Jacket
Speech to the Iroquois Six Nations (1805)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Adoption of the Declaration of Human
Rights (1948)
The Struggle for Human Rights (1948)
Franklin Delano Roosevent
Quarantine the Aggressor (1937)
A Date Which Will Live in Infamy (1941)
The Four Freedoms (1941)
Theodore Roosevelt
The Duties of American Citizenship (1883)
Lincoln and the Race Problem (1905)
Ernestine Potowski Rose
Speech at the National Woman's Rights
Convention (1851)
Margaret Sanger
The Children's Era (1925)
Eugene Debs
Statement to the Court (1918)
Anna Howard Shaw
The Fundamental Principle of a Republic
(1915)
Frederick Douglas
The Hypocrisy of American Slavery (1852)
Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage (1867)
Margaret Chase Smith
Declaration of Conscience (1950)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Chance for Peace (1953)
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Memories of the Industrial Workers of the World
(1962)
Betty Friedan
Judge Carswell and the "Sex Plus" Doctrine (1970)
Frances D. Gage
First Anniversary of the American Equal Rights
Association (1867)
Matilda Joslyn Gage
On the Progress of Education and Industrial
Avocations for Women (1871)
The Dangers of the Hour (1890)
Indira Gandhi
What Educated Women Can Do (1974)
True Liberation of Women (1980)
William Lloyd Garrison
On the Death of John Brown (1859)
Emma Goldman
What Is Patriotism? (1908)
Ernesto Che Guevara
On Growth and Imperialism (1961)
May Day (1963)
Address to the UN General Assembly (1964)
Afro-Asian Solidarity (1965)
Adelle Hazlett
Endorsing Women's Enfranchisement (1871)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
Address to the Legislature of New York
(1854)
A Slave's Appeal (1860)
The Destructive Male (1868)
Solitude of Self (1892)
Maria W. Miller Stewart
Lecture at the Franklin Hall (1832)
Lucy Stone
The Progress of 50 Years (1893)
Sojourner Truth
Ain't I a Woman? (1851)
Mark Twain
Women's Temperance Movement (1873)
Votes for Women (1901)
George C. Wallace
The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham,
and Hoax (1964)
Booker T. Washington
Speech at the Atlanta Cotton States and
International Exposition (1895)
Democracy and Education (1896)
George Washington
First Inaugural Address (1789)
Robert C. Weaver
The Negro as an American (1963)
Patrick Henry
The War Inevitable (1775)
Angelina Grimké Weld
Speech in Pennsylvania Hall (1838)
Address to the Woman's Loyal National
League (1863)
Isabella Beecher Hooker
The Constitutional Rights of the Women of the United
States (1883)
Ida B. Wells
Lynch Law in America (1900)
Lyndon Johnson
The Great Society (1964)
We Shall Overcome (1965)
Samuel West
On the Right to Rebel Against Governors
(1776)
Barbara Jordan
1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote
Address (1976)
George H. White
Farewell to Congress (1902)
Elie Wiesel
The Perils of Indifference (1999)
John F. Kennedy
Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
(1960)
Inaugural Address (1961)
Civil Rights Message (1963)
Speech at American University (1963)
Frances Wright
Speech at New Harmony Hall (1828)
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
On the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968)
John Kerry
Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Birth of a New Nation (1957)
Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (1964)
A Time to Break Silence (1967)
I See the Promised Land (1968)
Standards:
ELAALRL1-Identify evidence (diction, imagery, point of view, mood, figurative language, symbolism,
plot events) in a variety of texts and genres.
ELA11LSV2d- Formulate reasoned judgments about written and oral communication. Delivers
focused, coherent, and polished presentations that convey a clear and distinct perspective,
demonstrate solid reasoning, and combine traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition,
persuasion, and description. (d.) Delivers oral presentations that incorporate the elements of
persuasion.