Lot of 14 Common Core Rhetorical Analyses of Speeches by President Barack Obama

This resource includes 14 Common Core annotated texts with marginal notes of famous speeches by President Barack Obama. The collection includes:

• "Prayer Vigil for Sandy Hook Elementary School (Newton, CT) Victims”
• "Nelson Mandela Memorial”
• “September 10 Speech on Syria”
• "50th Anniversary March on Washington”
• “Memorial for the Victims of the Arizona Shooting”
• “First Inaugural Address”
• “Second Inaugural Address”
• "Dallas Memorial for Slain Officers"
• "Speech on Gun Control"
• "Selma Anniversary Speech"
• "2015 State of the Union"
• "2016 State of the Union"
• "2016 Democratic National Convention"
• "Farewell Address"

The zipped folder also includes blank copies of the speeches so that you can reproduce them for students so that they can annotate them. If you purchased this lot separately, you would spend over $45.00, but you can have the entire collection for only $28.00 which is a savings of $12.00. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing informational texts is a key skill that students will need for college and the jobs of the future.

Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetorical devices (logos, ethos, pathos), parallelism, anaphora, repetition, allusions, themes aligned with the RI1, RI2, RI3, RI4, RI5, RI6, and RI9 standards from the Common Core State Standards. In addition to the identified figurative language, rhetorical devices, etc., the document includes standard alignment for each comment and marginal notes that explain the significance of each identified element. This resource will help teachers to guide students’ close reading of the text and help them to become more critical readers of informational texts. The provided commentary includes Common Core standard references so that you will be able to help students to see how the guided statements and commentary align with specific reading informational standards.

Lot of 7 Common Core Rhetorical Analyses of Speeches by President Barack Obama by Dr. Joel C. Boyce is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.