Persuasive Speeches!

Listen to the first 6-7 persuasive speeches.

• When you speak: hand in your outline and works cited list.
• If you received 5/5 points on your outline and/or works cited, then you do not need to revise them. If you received fewer points, then revise them and hand in a clean copy.
• Speaker Evaluations: for each day of speeches, complete three speaker evaluations with the following questions:

1. The purpose of this speech was to persuade the audience...
2. Three main points of this speech were:
3. What was good about this speech?
4. What is one thing the speaker could work on?

Romanticism Wrap Up:

Consider the literary period (Romanticism) and the “big ideas” associated with it. Select one idea with which you connect (agree or disagree). In a paragraph (at least 6 sentences), write about the big idea with which you connect, the literary piece(s) in which you saw this big idea, and why you connect with this concept/connect it to your own life.

Literary Pieces: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau

Paragraphs will be evaluated on:

· Use of detail

· Coherence

· Elaboration

· Analysis

· Personal Reflection

· Standard writing conventions