This resource includes the annotated text with 50 marginal annotations and Common Core State Standards alignment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "Drum Major Instinct" speech. 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), anaphoras, parallelism, repetition, allusions, themes aligned with the RI1, RI2, RI4, and RI6 standards from the Common Core Stat