For Monday, a slight change; you will not have to read Frederick Douglass's "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July"; it's just too long. We'll come back to it. First, identify three to five successful qualities of King's delivery of his "I Have a Dream" speech. If you want to view it again, click here. Second, read King's "I Have a Dream" speech, and write a good paragraph analyzing one of his rhetorical strategies or his use of one rhetorical device. If you don't have the handout from class, you may have a difficult time finding a version on line. The King family has aggressively pursued copyright violations of King's writings, so it has become very difficult to find his writing online. The best source is the King Papers Project at Stanford University, but their site was not working when I tried to access it. Third, view Steve Jobs's 2005 commencement address at Stanford University (available here), and then read the text of the speech (available here). Fourth, write a good paragraph that evaluates Jobs's delivery of his speech. You may write about his delivery of the speech, the rhetorical success (or shortcomings) of the speech, or both.
On Wednesday, you will read to the class The Gettysburg Address, an excerpt from Kennedy's Inaugural Address, or an excerpt from King's "I Have a Dream" speech. If you choose to do an excerpt, it should be about the length of The Gettysburg Address, and definitely not longer than 300 words.
On Friday, you will read your adaptation of The Gettysburg Address.
