Evaluating Persuasive Speeches

Evaluating Persuasive Speeches

The Lesson Activities will help you meet these educational goals:

21st Century Skills—You will use critical thinking and communicate effectively.

Directions

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Self-Checked Activities

Read the instructions for the following activities and type in your responses. Click the link to the Student Answer Sheet at the end of the lesson. Use the answers or sample responses to evaluate your own work.

1. Churchill’s Speeches

Read the following speeches by Winston Churchill. For each question below, write one sentence that describes the primary argument in each speech.

• A House of Many Mansions
• You Do YourWorst—and We Will Do Our Best
• The Few
• Blood, Toil, Tearsand Sweat

1. What does Churchill try to convince his audience of in A House of Many Mansions?

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1. What does Churchill try to convince his audience of in You Do Your Worst—and We Will Do Our Best?

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1. What does Churchill try to convince his audience of in The Few?

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1. What does Churchill try to convince his audience of in Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat?

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1. Rhetorical Appeals

Locate your local newspaper or a national newspaper online, or recall a television show or advertisement. Find two examples of each type of rhetorical appeal and record your findings below. Explainhow the appeal is used in each example.

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1. Organizational Patterns

Review the Churchill speechBlood, Toils, Tears and Sweat. How would you describe the organizational pattern? How and why is this pattern effective for this particular speech? Use evidence from the speech to support your answer.

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Nailed It!—I included all of the same ideas as the model response on the Student Answer Sheet.

Halfway There—I included most of the ideas in the model response on the Student Answer Sheet.

Not Great—I did not include any of the ideas in the model response on the Student Answer Sheet.

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