Senator Barack Obama's Announcement for President

This post is created for your notes on the Obama speech from Springfield, IL. You must post notes and ideas that can be of use to your fellow students when writing their paper on the speech. The blog posts will count as a writtten assignment in itself so don't forget to write the names of all the members of your group!

American History - kinda

Obama's speech at the 50th Anniversay of the March on Washington

Obama's tribute to Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0z87SKSyyw

Yup - that's what you're doing!

Martin Luther king: I Have a Dream

The three forms of appeal: Ethos Pathos and logos

Here is a Danish explanation of the three appealforms

Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address

This great animation of Lincoln's Gettysburg Adress is worth seeing!

 

Here are some work points you might want to consider. Feel free to post comments.

Consider all 5 points in the rhetorical pentagram and write a brief evaluation of the speech in which you account for the use of predominant rhetorical features.

A bit of rhetoric

John Winthrop: City upon a Hill

Here are some work points you might want to consider. Feel free to post comments.

Consider all 5 points in the rhetorical pentagram and write a brief evaluation of the speech in which you account for the use of predominant rhetorical features.

The American Dream documentary

Please post the topics for discussion you noted down while watching the film in class. Use your Google account so everyone can see who is posting. Feel free to comment on each other's posts. Here you may find the film in case you did not see it in class.