Thursday, September 4, 2014

Junior and Senior Assignments for the Week of September 8-11,2014




Important Note: All speeches analyzed can be found online.  Just search for them in Google.

Seniors

Monday- Students will complete their journal and ACT prep the first ten minutes of class. Students will read and annotate the first 2 pages (front and back) Martin Luther King’s, “I’ve been to the Mountain Top” and annotate for tone, word choice, and rhetoric in cooperative groups.

Tuesday- Students will read the first ten minutes of class.  Students will read and annotate the last 2 pages (front and back) Martin Luther King’s, “I’ve been to the Mountain Top” and annotate for tone, word choice, and rhetoric in cooperative groups.

Wednesday- Students will complete their journal the first ten minutes of class.  Students will read and annotate the entire selection from Malcolm X’s “After the Bombing,” and annotate for tone, word choice, and rhetoric in cooperative groups.

Thursday- Picture Day :) Students will read the first ten minutes of class.  Students will write a five-paragraph essay discussing how Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X employed literary elements of tone, word choice, and rhetoric in order to deliver effective themes.

Juniors

Monday- Students will complete their journal and ACT prep the first ten minutes of class.  Students will watch a YouTube video of Danny Glover read Frederick Douglas’s speech, “4th of July.”  Students will then analyze and annotate the text version of the speech noting how diction and word choice can be affected by reading a text aloud. 
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Tuesday- Students will read the first ten minutes of class.  Students will watch a YouTube video of FDR’s Inaugural speech.  Students will then analyze and annotate the text version of the speech noting how diction and word choice can be affected by reading a text aloud. 

Wednesday- Students will complete their journal and ACT prep the first ten minutes of class.  Students will watch a YouTube video of Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech.   Students will then analyze and annotate the text version of the speech noting how diction and word choice can be affected by reading a text aloud. 

Thursday- Picture Day :)Students will read the first ten minutes of class.  Students will write a five-paragraph essay discussing  the use of word choice, diction, and the influential power of public speaking in the US seminal text analyzed this week.

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