Rhetorical Appeals | MLK's "What Is Your Life's Blueprint" Analysis
Perkinz with a Z Education
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Grade Levels
8th - 12th, Homeschool
Resource Type
Standards
CCSSRI.9-10.1
CCSSRI.9-10.2
CCSSRI.9-10.3
CCSSRI.9-10.4
CCSSRI.9-10.5
Formats Included
- Word Document File
Pages
9 pages
Perkinz with a Z Education
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Description
This rhetorical analysis of one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's most famous speeches will help your students place concepts of rhetoric in an authentic context.
Six months before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's assassination, Dr. King delivered the a speech to students at Barrett Junior High School. This resource contains abbreviated version of the speech (with a link to listen to the full speech on YouTube) along with questions for rhetorical analysis and critical thinking.
Concepts covered:
✔️ speaker, audience, occasion, purpose
✔️ ethos, pathos, and logos
✔️ anaphora
✔️ allusion
✔️ analysis of metaphor, symbolism, and word choice
✔️ personal response paragraph
Total Pages
9 pages
Answer Key
Included
Teaching Duration
45 minutes
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSRI.9-10.1
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSSRI.9-10.2
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSSRI.9-10.3
Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them.
CCSSRI.9-10.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
CCSSRI.9-10.5
Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter).
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