War Speeches
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This activity will help you meet these educational goals: Read the instructions for this self-checked activity. Type in your response to each question, and check your answers. At the end of the activity, write a brief evaluation of your work. In this activity, you will compare the 1941 speech by Winston Churchill that you heard in the video to this excerpt from "Speech to House of Commons of the British Parliament, 4 June 1940." What main points does Churchill make in each of the speeches? Do the speeches use any of the same rhetorical devices? Do they have similar or different tones and themes? Does hearing a speech make it more or less compelling than reading the words? Why or why not?War Speeches
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain determine an author‘s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text.Directions
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