Class 20EWRT 1A

AGENDA

• Essay #4 was due before class today.• Introduction to Essay #5•Martin Luther King’s “I Have A

Dream” Speech.•Monroe’s Motivated Sequence

Essay #5: Proposing a Solution

• Assignment: 100 points: Write a speech 400-500 words in length (3-4 minutes).

• Prompt: Write a speech (based on essay #4) proposing a solution to a well-defined problem faced by a community or group to which you may belong.

• Address your proposal to your audience: one or more members of the group, its leadership, or to outsiders who may be able to contribute to solving the problem.

• Present your speech to the class to convince them that your ideas are correct.

• You may give your presentation as a formal speech; in other words, you may read or recite your speech in front of the class.

• You may record a video, put up the video on YouTube, and show it during class.

• You may suggest another form.

Delivering Your Speech

Martin Luther King Jr. has now been dead longer than he lived. But what an extraordinary life it was.

• At 33, he was pressing the case of civil rights with President John Kennedy. At 34, he galvanized the nation with his "I Have a Dream" speech. At 35, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. At 39, he was assassinated, but he left a legacy of hope and inspiration that continues today.

• King's most famous speech, "I Have a Dream," was delivered in 1963 at the March on Washington, one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history; it called for civil and economic rights for African Americans.

“I Have a Dream”Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs#at=508

The Problem

•What is the problem that King identifies for his listeners?

The Problem

• “But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.”

The Solution

•What is his solution? Can you find his thesis here?

The Solution• His thesis (or purpose) statement is that now is the time for

equality:Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

King’s Strategies• King uses a variety of strategies in his speech: • Establishment of Authority• Logic and reasoning • Appeal to Emotions

• Through rhetorical strategies• Simile• Metaphor• Personification• Allusion

• But he also uses an organizational strategy that works to captivate the audience.

King followed Monroe’s Motivated Sequence: A Method in Five Steps!

The five steps of the Monroe motivated sequence:

1. attention

2. need

3. satisfaction

4. visualization

5. action

ORGANIZE YOUR SPEECH

GET OUT YOUR ESSAY #4

Side by SideEssay Outline

I. Presentation of the problemA. Its existenceB. Its seriousnessC. Its causes

II. Consequences of failing to solve the problemIII. Description of the proposed solutionIV. List of steps for implementing the solutionV. Reasons and support for the solution

A. Acknowledgment of objectionsB. Accommodation or refutation of objections

VI. Consideration of alternative solutions and their disadvantagesVII. Restatement of the proposed solution and its advantagesVII. End with an inspiring call to action.

Speech OutlineI. In the attention step, speakers call

attention to the situation. (The Problem)II. For the need step, speakers describe the

difficulty, trouble, distress, crisis, emergency, or urgency. (Its Seriousness)

III. In the satisfaction step, speakers tell listeners how to satisfy the need they establish. (The Solution)

IV. For visualization, speakers offer listeners a vision of what life can be once their solution (offered in the satisfaction step) is adopted. (The Promise)

V. The final stage is the action step when speakers offer listeners a specific course of action to follow. (Call to Action: Conclusion)

Homework

• Essay 4 due: Submit your complete essay and a separate Works Cited page in MLA format to Turnitin.com by 5:30 p.m.

• Begin to organize your essay into a shorter form to become your final presentation• Create a new outline of your essay • Eliminate sections of your essay that will be

cumbersome or unnecessary in your speech • Condense sections that are too long• Simplify complex sections