ALEX Classroom Resources

ALEX Classroom Resources  
   View Standards     Standard(s): [ELA2021] (8) 6 :
6. Evaluate the development of central and supporting ideas in recorded or live presentations by examining the speaker's rhetorical strategies and choices regarding point of view, purpose, comparisons, analogies, categories, allusions, and figurative, connotative, and technical word meanings.
[ELA2021] (8) 19 :
19. Evaluate a speaker's rhetorical and organizational choices in order to determine point of view, purpose, and effectiveness.
[ELA2021] (9) 18 :
18. Analyze a speaker's rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices in order to determine point of view and purpose.
[ELA2021] (10) 18 :
18. Analyze a speaker's rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices in order to determine point of view and purpose.

Examples: Analyze Mahatma Gandhi's "Quit India" speech.
Analyze "The Appeal of 18 June" by Charles de Gaulle.
[ELA2021] (11) 21 :
21. Analyze a speaker's rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices in order to determine point of view, purpose, and effectiveness.
[ELA2021] (12) 21 :
21. Analyze a speaker's rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices in order to determine point of view, purpose, and effectiveness.
Subject: English Language Arts (8 - 12)
Title: Quoting Abraham Lincoln
URL: https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/bf10.soc.k-6.histus.civilwar.quotlinc/quoting-abraham-lincoln/
Description:

This excerpt from the PBS series, "Looking for Lincoln," features clips of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama quoting Lincoln's oratory- not always accurately- to lend his historical weight to their speeches.

This resource provides a perspective from which students may begin to analyze rhetorical choices. Be sure to read the Discussion Questions found under the Support Materials for Use with Students section.



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