Today we... Wrote. Please see below for our daily writing prompt. Received the culminating activity for our non-fiction/rhetorical analysis unit: an analysis of President Barack Obama's speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the march over the Edmund Pettus brindge in Selma, Alabama. Please see document below for full instructions and the text of the speech. You will have all class period today and tomorrow to work on this, with everything due by the end of class on Friday. You will be submitting one document to Turnitin.com that includes a SOAPSTone analysis as well as a 4-chunk paragraph. There are three parts to this assessment. FROM THE DOCUMENT: What follows below are excerpts from President Barack Obama’s speech on March 7, 2015, commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the march over the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama. On that day 50 years ago, non-violent marchers planned to march from Selma to the state capital in Montgomery. The marchers were met by state troopers, and county deputies attacked the protesters with billy clubs and tear gas after they crossed the county line. The events of that day are considered among the most central of the Civil Rights movement. PART ONE For your culminating activity, you will read and annotate the speech below. Please be sure to mark any rhetorical devices you come across in your reading (there are many). Mark up the speech, highlight, underline, annotate, etc. You will be turning this in for credit (make sure your name is on the top). PART TWO: SOAPSTone ANALYSIS Once you have finished reading the speech, complete a SOAPStone analysis. Pay particular attention to the purpose element: what is the main idea of the speech? Look back at your previous SOAPSTone work and make sure you aren't repeating the same mistakes. You must write in complete sentences. This should be at the top of the document you will submit online. PART THREE: PARAGRAPH RESPONSE Once you have completed the SOAPStone analysis, you will be writing a FOUR CHUNK paragraph in which you explain how President Obama uses rhetorical devices to enforce the main idea of the speech. In order to complete this task successfully, you need to:
I encourage your to do some pre-writing work (such as answering the above questions) on the back of the article or in the body of your document.
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