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CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 14.04.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Teaching Situation and Rationale
  2. Objectives
  3. The Unit
  4. Strategies
  5. Study of Political Speeches
  6. Writing
  7. Activities
  8. Appendix
  9. Resources
  10. Notes

Rhetoric in My World: Engaging Students in Rhetorical Analysis through Political Speechwriting

Jo Ann Flory

Published September 2014

Tools for this Unit:

Resources

Bibliography

Allen, Rick. "Leveraging Technology to Improve Literacy." ACSD 50, no. 10 (2008).

http://www.ascd.org/publications/newsletters/educationupdate/oct08/vol50/num10/

Leveraging-Technology-to-Improve-Literacy.aspx (accessed June 10, 2014).

Bitter, Gary G., and Melissa Pierson. Using technology in the classroom. 5th ed. Boston,

MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2002.

Brewer, Jan. "Governor Jan Brewer Address Upon Signing Arizona SB1070."

www.americanrhetoric.com

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/janbrewersenatebill1070speech.htm

(accessed July 15, 2014).

Coker, Jr, David, and Eileen Erwin. "Teaching Academic Argument in an Urban Middle

School: A Case Study of Two Approaches." Urban Education 46, no. 120 (2010).

http://uex.sagepub.com/content/46/2/120 (accessed July 2, 2014).

Corbett, Edward P. J. and Robert Connors. Classical rhetoric for the modern student. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.

Cruz, Ted. "The Minimum Wage Act Hurts the Most Vulnerable Among Us." YouTube.

http://www.m.youtube.com/watch?v=8A_lvgecbo4 (accessed July 16, 2014).

Fields, Wayne. Union of words: a history of presidential eloquence. New York: Free

Press, 1996.

"Improving Educational Choice and Competition; Keynote by Gov. Bobby Jindal." The Brookings Institution.

http://www.brookings.edu/events/2012/12/11-education-choice (accessed July 16, 2014).

Kennedy, John F., and Theodore C. Sorensen. "Let the word go forth": the speeches, statements, and writings of John F. Kennedy. New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, 1988.

Kennedy, John. "American Rhetoric: John F Kennedy Address on the Space Program At

Rice University." www.americanrhetoric.com

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkriceuniversity.htm (accessed July 15,

2014).

Lopez-Cirugeda, Isabel , and Raquel Sanchez-Ruiz. "Persuasive Rhetoric in Barak

Obama's Immigration Speech: Pre- and Post-Electoral Strategies." Camino Real 5, no. 8

(2013): 81-99.

McDonalds. Advertisement. July 28, 2014. Sports Illustrated.

"National Press Club Luncheon with Antonio Villaraigosa Mayor of Los Angeles." http://press.org/sites/default/files/070124avillaraigosa.pdf (accessed July

15, 2014).

Noonan, Peggy. On speaking well: how to give a speech with style, substance, and

clarity. New York, NY: Regan Books, 1999.

Obama, Barak. "Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform."

The White House. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/29/remarks-

president-comprehensive-immigration-reform (accessed July 16, 2014).

Raphael, Timothy. The president electric Ronald Reagan and the politics of performance.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009.

Roach, Joseph. "Viva Voce." The Yale Review 99, no. 4 (2011): 108-118.

Roosevelt, Franklin. "Miller Center: Fireside Chat 8: On Farmers and Laborers"

(September 6, 1936)-. http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/detail/3306 (accessed

July 16, 2014).

Safire, William. Lend me your ears: great speeches in history. New York: Norton, 1992.

The Trust for Public Land. Advertisement. July 28, 2014. Time.

Warren, Elizabeth. "Floor Speech on Minimum Wage Vote." Elizabeth Warren: US

Senator for Massachusetts. http://www.warren.senate.gov/?p=video&id=488 (accessed

July 16, 2014).

Wills, Garry. Lincoln at Gettysburg: the words that remade America. New York: Simon

& Schuster, 1992.

Classroom Resources

"Asean Johnson: We Are Black and We Are Proud." YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGwM-p86zw8 (accessed July 16, 2014).

"Challenger: President Reagan's Challenger Disaster Speech." YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?Qa7icmqgsow (accessed July 14, 2014).

"Learn the Address." Learn the Address: Home. http://www.learntheaddress.org (accessed July 16, 2014).

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