Monday, May 10 -Friday, May 14 Rhetorical Unit week 3: analyzing speeches
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11-12R5: I can analyze how varied aspects of structure create meaning and affect the reader.
The people of England were expecting the Spanish to invade their country in 1588. Queen Elizabeth I gave the following speech to rally her people in preparation for an invasion.
Directions: read through the following speech, noting if the persuasive technique being used by Queen Elizabeth I is logos, ethos or pathos.
For phrases that use logos, highlight in Yellow
For phrases using ethos, highlight in BLUE
For phrases using pathos, highlight in Green
This is due by midnight Wednesday, May 12
My loving people, We have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people.
Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects; and therefore I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live and die amongst you all; to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.
I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm; to which rather than any dishonour shall grow by me, I myself will take up arms, I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field.
I know already, for your forwardness you have deserved rewards and crowns; and We do assure you in the word of a prince, they shall be duly paid you. In the meantime, my lieutenant general shall be in my stead, than whom never prince commanded a more noble or worthy subject; not doubting but by your obedience to my general, by your concord in the camp, and your valour in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory over those enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people.
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Thursday / Friday, May 13 and 14. Closing the unit: analyzing Hillary Rodman Clinton's speech. This is due by Friday, midnight, May 14.
This speech was delivered by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was First Lady of the United States at the time, on September 5th, 1995 in Beijing, China. It was part of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women.
REVIEW OF TERMS THAT WE COVERED IN CLASS AND YOU WERE TO HAVE PRACTICED ON THURSDAY, APRIL 29. YOU WILL USE THESE IN YOUR ANALYSIS OF THE THE FOLLOWING SPEECH.
* I have abridged this speech for the purposes of our class, but the
content and meaning remain intact. For the full version, visit:
http://gos.sbc.edu/c/clinton.html
What we are learning around the world is that if women are healthy and educated, their families will flourish. If women are free from violence, their families will flourish. If women have a chance to work and earn as full and equal partners in society, their families will flourish. And when families flourish, communities and nations will flourish.
Women comprise more than half the world's population. Women are 70% percent of the world's poor, and two-thirds of those who are not taught to read and write.
Women are the primary caretakers for most of the world's children and elderly. Yet much of the work we do is not valued - not by economists, not by historians, not by popular culture, not by government leaders.
At this very moment, as we sit here, women around the world are giving birth, raising children, cooking meals, washing clothes, cleaning houses, planting crops, working on assembly lines, running companies, and running countries. Women also are dying from diseases that should have been prevented or treated; they are watching their children succumb to malnutrition caused by poverty and economic deprivation; they are being denied the right to go to school by their own fathers and brothers; they are being forced into prostitution, and they are being barred from the bank lending office and banned from the ballot box.
Those of us who have the opportunity to be here have the responsibility to speak for those who could not.
It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls. It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution. It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide among women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes.
If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women's rights - and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.
As long as discrimination and inequities remain so commonplace around the world - as long as girls and women are valued less, fed less, fed last, overworked, underpaid, not schooled and subjected to violence in and out of their homes - the potential of the human family to create a peaceful, prosperous world will not be realized.
Let this Conference be our - and the world's - call to action.
DIRECTIONS:
1. . Read the accompanying speech given by Hillary Clinton in Beijing, China in 1995
2. 2. Review the rhetorical devices
3. 3. Reread the speech, underlining and noting a minimum of 6 textual examples that demonstrate rhetorical techniques. You must have at least two that are not Aristotelian. (See the list above the speech that you we reviewed and practiced on Thursday, April 29)
4. 4. Copy your selected example from the text of the speech below; then identify the rhetorical device. Again, you may use only four Aristotelian examples; two must be other types of rhetorical devices.
Use an ellipsis* as needed; you do not have to copy out the complete sentence, but you must include a complete supporting example.
W *What is an ellipsis? An ellipsis consists of three periods, or dots. An ellipsis indicates the omission of words in the middle of a quoted sentence or the omission of sentences within a quoted paragraph.
Example from Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream Speech: " Five score years ago ,,, signed the Emancipation Proclamation." The ellipsis indicates that words have been omitted.
5. Again: copy and paste your example, using quotation marks and an ellipsis, as needed. You will have 6 examples from the speech.
Identify the type of rhetorical device used (again you must have two that are not Aristotelian)
Explain the purpose behind the usage of the rhetorical device.
C Copy and paste the following graphic organizer onto a google doc; complete and share as usual: 2006630 or dorothy.parker@rcsdk12.org
Hillary Clinton’s September 5th, 1995 speech in Beijing, China
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