Strategies
Students will watch Robert Kennedy's speech following the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. As a class, we will discuss the historical context of this speech. Through this we can come up with what it was like for the audience of this speech, but also for the speaker. By looking at not only what was said, but also how Robert Kennedy delivered his speech, students can see how speech can be used to inspire an audience to inaction. Then students will be put into groups to use speech for typical situations that they might come into contact with themselves in or outside of school. By using RFK's speech and what strategies, they can come up with speeches that would defuse a potentially violent situation.
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