August 29, 2014

Learning Target: I will consider how the occasion of a political speech - its moment in history - affects its content, and how syntax - especially sentence length and parallel structure and antithesis - affects a speech's flow and the emphasis of certain ideas.

No homework - Happy Labor Day Weekend!

Bellringer:  JFK's Inaugural Address...Historical Context.Read the paragraph in the middle of page 72.  What do you think were some of the international and domestic challenges facing the US in 1961? Even if you are not positive, think about what was going on in the world and in the US at that time.  Consider also what had happened in the world in the previous 15-20 years (since 1941). Then we will listen to the first 6 mins and 10 sec of the speech and answer the following questions on pp 72-73: 5, 6, 8, 9, 11,12.

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