ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
This multi-session lesson features the opportunity to analyze a variety of famous speeches. Young scholars will look carefully at tone, rhetoric, propaganda techniques, and historical context as they write an analysis paper....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Famous Speeches for Rhetorical Structures and Devices
In this lesson, you will learn to analyze persuasive speeches and examine the impact of rhetorical structure and the use of devices in famous speeches. It includes activities such as matching quotes from famous speeches to the speakers...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Famous Speeches for Rhetorical Structures and Devices
In this lesson, you will learn to analyze persuasive speeches, those that are intended to sway the audience to agree with the speaker. You will examine the impact of rhetorical structure and the use of devices in famous speeches.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Famous Speeches for Rhetorical Structures and Devices
Analyze the persuasive impact of rhetorical structures and devices in famous speeches.
Other
Selected Speeches of Winston Churchill: We Shall Fight on the Beaches
Read the inspiring speech made by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons on June 4, 1940, after the British were evacuated from Dunkirk.
Wyzant
Wyzant: History and Politics Out Loud: "I Have a Dream" Speech
Listen to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s powerful and famous speech, "I Have a Dream." Transcript and audio clips are also provided.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Introduction to Speech
This is a comprehensive unit introducing speech including key words, lessons, discussion of audience, purpose, analyzing speeches, speech components, planning a speech, quizzes, and a final assessment with rubric.
Wyzant
Wyzant: History and Politics Outloud: Famous Speeches
Featured is a searchable archive of politically significant audio materials for scholars, teachers, and students. All audio is relevant to American history and politics and is searchable by title, speaker, date, or subject.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: I Have a Dream: Crafting a Persuasive Speech
This PDF lesson plan is for students to use Martin Luther King's famous speech as an example to write their own persuasive speech about an issue of their choice. Students will utilize their knowledge of oratorical strategies to deliver...
The History Place
The History Place: Great Speeches Collection
This site from The History Place provides a good selection of historical and relatively modern speeches from many English-speaking countries. Each speech is set up in its historic context. Many are available with audio links.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Text Sets: Influential Speeches
This is a collection of 47 Grade-Leveled texts (6-12) on the topic Influential Speeches. What makes a great speech, and what makes a great speech memorable? Study some of the most influential speeches in history and learn how they...
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Top 100 Speeches
This is an interactive collection of the top 100 speeches in order of their popularity; most include the text and audio of the speech and several also offer the video. RI.9-10.9 US Documents
Other
Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches From Around the World
An archive of speeches by influential, contemporary women. Almost all of the speeches in the collection come directly from the authors themselves or from the organizations representing them and have not been published elsewhere
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Lyndon Baines Johnson: "Let Us Continue"
This is Lyndon Baines Johnson's speech "Let Us Continue," on the occasion of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 27, 1963; it is offered in a You Tube Video, an mp3 audio, and in text. [6:11]
Fact Monster
Fact Monster: Famous Presidential Speeches
Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and others have their famous presidential speeches captured in this database.
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Speech Making
This lesson focuses on speech making including watching famous speakers and noting their language choice, diction, body language, pauses, etc. This is followed by group work practicing the "hamburger" method of writing a prepared speech....
Seeker
Seeker: Mlk Tested 'Dream' Speech as a Teen
Article reports on a speech given by a teen Martin Luther King, Jr. and its similiarities to his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Includes a video.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1986 Award Ceremony Speech
Text from a speech introducing Wole Soyinka before he accepted the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature. Contains biographical information and discussion of his literary works.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Site Search
This is the search engine for American Rhetoric, a site that offers thousands of primary source speeches. Just type in the name of the speech or the speaker and select from the choices.
Wyzant
Wyzant: History and Politics Outloud: Winston Churchill and the Sinews of Peace Address
Resource provides "The Sinews of Peace Address," which is regarded as Winston Churchill's most important speech as Leader of the Opposition. In audio, also.
University of Maryland
Voices of Democracy: John F. Kennedy, "Address: "The President and Press" 1961
Read President John F. Kennedy's speech, "The President and the Press," which he delivered before the American Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA) on April 27, 1961. In this speech, he attempted to explain and justify the Bay of Pigs...
University of Maryland
Voices of Democracy: Sojourner Truth "Address at the Woman's Rights Convention "
In a speech given before the Women's Rights Convention in Akron Ohio in 1851, Sojourner Truth argued forcefully for the rights of women, drawing particular attention to the position of women of color in the social and legal hierarchy of...
Other
Liberty Online: "Addresses, Messages, and Replies"
This site provides students access to the full text of selected Thomas Jefferson's speeches.
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Colonial Williamsburg: Politics in Colonial Virginia
This site explores the politics involved in Colonial Williamsburg, leading up to the American Revolution. Content focuses on famous speeches, documents, and influential people.
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