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Part A: Compare speeches
As you become comfortable with the skill of synthesis, you will find it easier to make connections between texts and companion readings or viewings. In this essay, you will compare the Gettysburg Address to a clip from a modern movie.
Completing this assignment involves the following:
Reading the Gettysburg Address
Listening to the audio of Coach Boone's speech from Remember the Titans
( http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/movi... )
Drawing parallels between Lincoln's speech and Coach Herman Boone's speech in the audio clip
Writing a developed essay in which you analyze the two speeches, pointing out similarities and differences in content, tone, rhetorical strategies, purpose, etc.
Incorporating textual evidence from each speech to support your analysis
Essay is 5 paragraphs.
Part B: Evaluate Student Responses
Review a passage with many similarities to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and evaluate student responses to a previous year’s AP Language and Composition Exam question.
Take a look at a previous year's exam question.
Review Question 2 from the 2003 Exam ( https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/apc/ap03_frq... ) . You may wish to print and annotate as you read.
Now, review the student responses ( https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/apc/ap03_eng... ) , and their scores.
Finally, review the scoring commentary( https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/apc/ap03_com... ) .
Observe and Reflect: Respond to the following questions using complete sentences:
1. What is the exam prompt asking students to do?
2. How would you compare Green's tone with Lincoln's? Do you observe similarities in their style? What are the most influential rhetorical strategies used by each speaker?
3. What is each speaker’s purpose for giving his speech? Explain.
4. Identify three strengths of the highest-scoring essay. Be specific. What could the writer of the lowest-scoring essay have done to improve his or her score? Be specific.
5. Examine the use of textual evidence in each student essay and comment on the types of evidence each student uses. What do you notice about the use of textual evidence in each essay? How is the highest-scoring essay’s use of evidence different from the other student essays?
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Part A
Similarities and differences of Lincoln’s and Coach Herman Boone’s speeches
Similarities
Both speeches have something in common; they refer to the Civil war. Lincoln says that though
the war led to one proposition; all men are equal; he also admits it led loss of lives of many men.
This is what is echoed by Coach Herman Boone in his speech when he tells his followers that
Gettysburg, the place where they stand, is where “fifty thousand men died.”
Differences
The content in both speeches has some differences. Lincoln's speech is relatively longer
than that of Coach Herman Boone. It has 266 words while that of Boone has 143. Lincoln tries to
point out that Civil war, though it has led to a loss of many people, has made them achieve
freedom; equality of all men. This freedom is what the living should uphold and protect so that it
could be clear “that these dead shall not have died in vain.” Coach Herman Boone speech is
different. It addresses the fact that people are still fighting the war that Civil war addressed. So, it
is a repeat war and brings in a clear picture that what Lincoln addressed by saying that “we take
increased devotion to that cause” and “that these dead shall not have died in vain” has been
negated. Boone tries to convince people to respect each other so that they can survive and live
together. Otherwise, the killings reported during the civil war will also be witnessed.
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The tone in Lincoln's speech is composed and with authority. It is also high. It tries to
give people hope that even if civil war led to a loss of lives, it brought something in return;
freedom of equality. And so, they have to devote themselves to that course so that the war will at
least have its s meaning. Coach Herman Boone's speech is full of a sorrowful tone. His voice
tell...
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