American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Cesar E. Chavez: "The Mexican American and the Church"
This is a paper that was prepared and presented by Cesar E. Chavez and presented in March 1968 at the Second Annual Mexican Conference in Sacramento, California. In it, he discusses the lack of support from the Catholic parish for the...
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Ashton Carter: Sasc Statement on Counter Isil Campaign
This is the text, audio, and video [12:35] of Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter's address to Senate Armed Services Committee on the Counter-ISIL Campaign on October 28, 2015.
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American Rhetoric: Anita Hill: Senate Judiciary Testimony on Clarence Thomas
This is the text, audio, and video [1:44] of Anita Hill's testimony on Clarence Thomas in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 11, 1991.
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American Rhetoric: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation
This is the text, audio, and video [3:08] of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's declaration of war against the Japanese the day after their attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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American Rhetoric: Lyndon Baines Johnson: "We Shall Overcome" Congress Address
This is the text and audio of President Lyndon Baines Johnson addressing a Joint Session of Congress on voting legislation on March 15, 1965 in Washington D.C.
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American Rhetoric: Ashton Carter: Drell Lecture on Innovation and Cybersecurity
This is the text, audio, and video [40:52] of Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter's Drell Lecture on innovation and cybersecurity delivered on April 23, 2015, at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California.
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Six Minutes: Speech Analysis #1: How to Study and Critique a Speech
Dlugen presents a detailed collection of tips to observe when critiquing others' speeches. This skill is critical in improving individual presentation abilities. SL.9-10.3 Eval Presentation. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.3, SL.9-10.3 Eval...
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Six Minutes: Speech Analysis #3: Modified Sandwich Technique for Evaluations
A resource featuring a systematic approach to presenting a speech evaluation including various modifications. SL.9-10.3 Eval Presentation. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.3, SL.9-10.3 Eval Presentation
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How to Analyze a Speech
An interesting approach to how to analyze a speech. Presents a rhetorical pentangle as well as a rhetorical triangle, where each of the vertices represents an item to analyze. There is also an outline of the different areas to examine in...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Rhetorical Appeals: Appeals to Ethos
This lesson focuses on appeals to Ethos, When you evaluate an appeal to ethos, how successfully a speaker or writer establishes authority or credibility with his or her intended audience. You ask yourself what elements of the essay or...
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Presidential Rhetoric: George W. Bush: Energy Policy
President George W. Bush discusses his energy policy, American's dependence on oil and alternative fuel in this April, 2006, speech.
Able Media
Figures of Speech: Rhetoric Exercises
This site is a great exercise that helps students practice identifying and translating rhetorical devices in Latin poetry. Uses examples from Book II of Vergil's Aeneid.
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Latin Handouts
Copious amounts of handouts can be found here at the Latin Library. Includes vocabulary handouts, Latin readings, grammar handouts, exercises, and other miscellaneous handouts.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Literature: Personification
Explains what personification is and gives examples. Includes links to related articles on symbolism, elements of rhetoric, fables, figure of speech, and allegory.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Andre Agassi Farewell to Tennis Address at the u.s. Open
This is the text, audio, and video [2:28] of Andre Agassi's farewell address to tennis at the U. S. Open on September 3, 2006.
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Ten Rhetoric of War Writing Projects
Created by a teacher responding to the events in Kosovo, this list is a great start for a media literacy class project. Good discussion-starting questions are included with each item on the list. Requires some independent research to...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: 10th Grade Grammar
This article focuses on what grammar 10th graders need to know to be successful in the upper grades and college. These include the following: parts of speech, sentence structure/syntax, types of sentences, types of clauses, parallelism,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Syntax (English I Reading)
This lesson focuses on syntax; All writers and speakers choose their words and the way they arrange them to make their work more powerful. You will see this in a segment of President Kennedy's speech and then in poetry; poets in...
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Movie Speech: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
A photograph, an audio mp3, and a transcript of Atticus Finch's monologue as he delivers the closing arguments in Tom Robinson's trial in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Understatement
This is an encyclopedia entry for the word "Understatement." It defines the term, provides background information about it, and offers references.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Al Gore: Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
Video and text of Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech delivered on December 10, 2017, in Oslo, Norway.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Ronald Reagan on the Challenger Disaster" by President Ronald Reagan
President Ronald Reagan delivered this speech to the grieving nation on January 28, 1986, when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, leading to the death of its seven crew members. A specific purpose for reading...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Gettysburg Address
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students analyze historical speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King to find rhetorical devices and features that make these speeches memorable.
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Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.