Lot of 30 Common Core Rhetorical Analyses of Speeches by American Presidents

This resource includes the 14 Common Core annotated texts with marginal notes of famous speeches by President Abraham Lincoln, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, President John F. Kennedy, President Richard Nixon, President Ronald Reagan, President George W. Bush, President William Clinton, President Barack Obama, and President Donald J. Trump. The collection includes:

1. Abraham Lincoln’s "Gettysburg Address”
2. Abraham Lincoln’s "First Inaugural Address”
3. Abraham Lincoln’s "Second Inaugural Address”
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “First Inaugural Address”
5. John F. Kennedy’s “Inaugural Address”
6. Richard Nixon’s “Peace with Honor” Address
7. Ronald Reagan's "Speech on the Challenger Explosion"
8. Ronald Reagan's "Eulogy of the Challenger 7: 'True Heroes'"
9. Ronald Reagan's "Speech at the Berlin Wall"
10. George W. Bush's "9/11 Speech"
11. Bill Clinton’s “Speech the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial”
12. Barack Obama's "Prayer Vigil for Sandy Hook Elementary School (Newton, CT) Victims”
13. Barack Obama's “Nelson Mandela Memorial”
14. Barack Obama's “September 10 Speech on Syria”
15. Barack Obama's “50th Anniversary March on Washington”
16. Barack Obama's “Memorial for the Victims of the Arizona Shooting”
17. Barack Obama's “First Inaugural Address”
18. Barack Obama's “Second Inaugural Address”
19. Barack Obama's "Dallas Memorial for Slain Officers"
20. Barack Obama's "Speech on Gun Control"
21. Barack Obama's "Selma Anniversary Speech"
22. Barack Obama's "2015 State of the Union"
23. Barack Obama's "2016 State of the Union"
24. Barack Obama's "2016 Democratic National Convention"
25. Barack Obama's "Farewell Address"
26. Donald Trump's "2019 State of the Union Address
27. Donald Trump's "2018 State of the Union Address"
28. Donald Trump's "Speech After Las Vegas Mass Shooting"
29. Donald Trump's "Speech After Parkland, FL Mass Shooting"
30. Donald Trump's "2017 Presidential Inaugural 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 $75.00, but you can have the entire collection for only $38.00 which is a savings of 50%. 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, repetition, allusions, and, central ideas aligned with the RI1, RI2, RI3, RI4, RI5, RI6, RI7, 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 30 Common Core Rhetorical Analyses of Speeches by American Presidents by Dr. Joel C. Boyce is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.