Monday, January 30 - Thursday, February 3

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Thursday
1. Parallelism - what is it and why you should care. Write a sentence about Mr. Trumps' inaugural speech. Begin your sentence with: In Donald Trump's speech his "America First"philosophy is evident [through]....
2. Read through the examples at this web site: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/623/01/ to discover what parallelism is about.
3. Make sure you have completed your group work on speech in film.
4. Research a speech that you will analyze on your own next week. This will be a real speech not one that happened in a film. You only have to analyze a segment of the speech - something around 300 words long or 1-3 paragraphs. There are some web sites below to start you on your search. Let me know the name of the speech. Once you have the okay from me, cut and paste the speech segment into a word document and print off a copy to put into your folder for next week.




Wednesday

1. Time to work with your partners discussing your speech in
film. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/moviespeeches.htm
Title: (of film and speech if known)

Audience:

Occasion:

Purpose/Goal(s) for the speech 

How do the society, the culture, the geographical area and the historical time period influence the speech?

Rhetorical devices/identify author’s manipulation of language.

What makes the speech remarkable/memorable? 

 2. Parallelism - what is it and why you should care. Write a sentence about Mr. Trumps' inaugural speech. Begin your sentence with: In Donald Trump's speech his "America First"philosophy is evident [through]....

 3. Parallelism examples & practice - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/623/01/

Tuesday


  1. Queen Elizabeth’s speech to the troops at Tilbury - complete annotatation (writing all over) your copy of the speech.
  2. Review the “rhetorical triangle,” pathos, ethos, logos
  3. Look at an excerpt from "I Have a Dream”  
  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream background info; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDWWy4CMhE video clip; who wrote the "I Have a Dream" speech? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/09/martin-luther-king-dream-speech-history
  5. Today you and a partner will sign-up for a particular speech that occured in a film. You will analyze (see points to cover below) and present your findings to the class on Monday. This a a small, informal presentation. Simply run the video clip and cover the points listed below in a couple of minutes.
  6. Speech analysis points to cover:
  7. Title: of film or speech

    Audience:

    Occasion:

    Purpose/Goal(s) for the speech 

    How do the society, the culture, the geographical area and the historical time period influence the speech?

    Rhetorical devices/identify author’s manipulation of language.

    What makes the speech remarkable/memorable? 
  8. lists of speeches in film:

  9. Parallelism - what is it and why you should care. Write a sentence about Mr. Trumps' inaugural speech. Begin your sentence with: In Donald Trump's speech his "America First"philosophy is evident [through]....
  10. Parallelism examples - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/623/01/

 Monday

Welcome to English 11 !


  1. Attendance
  2. Course outline & Course blog
  3. Folders
  4. What are you going to be doing? Analysis of speeches and write a motivational/manipulative speech
  5. Why are you doing this? One look at how language can shape ideas and influence people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CVTuOyZDI0  - start at 5 min
  6. How are you going to do this? By looking at examples of speeches, examining what makes a quality speech.
  7. What needs to be present in order for a speech to occur? HINT 3 things...
  8. Tools of manipulation/rhetorical devices/ bias techniques - how many can you come up with?
  9. Queen Elizabeth’s speech to the troops at Tilbury - annotate (write all over) your copy of the speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7hd209WDA
  10. Parallelism - what is it and why you should care.

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