Maxim Livit
Sophomore 2020
Period 09
Blog - 03/11/2020
Aim: How can a comparison of speeches reflect the continued relevance of ideas held in society today?
Do Now: THINK/PAIR/SHARE
- Why do you believe that when some people speak, they seem to grab and maintain the attention of those who are around them?
- Why do you believe that a person’s words are vital to the message they’re trying to make, and why do we often place so much emphasis on our “choice of words?”
Notes and Class Discussion:
We started the class period, as usual, answering the Do Now questions. For the first question, there seemed to be a similarity in all of the answers. It was obvious that the class knew what had to be done to stand out and properly deliver a speech or any form of verbalizing that requires an audience’s attention. For the first question, most students pointed out that the tone and diction of a speaker is the key to grabbing that attention. For example, speakers that are loud, clearly confident, and emotional to where they believe in their words so much that it is hard for the audience not to, are the best at calling attention. Additionally, one has to be articulate in their words, not wasting any time on useless thoughts, not constantly including “uhh” or “umm” to sentences, and prudently choosing words that carry the perfect connotation to get a point across. All of these points were later applied to our examination of Martin Luther King Jr. and his most famous speech. Following this discussion, we built on these answers with a list of charismatic leaders in history, including Hitler, Mussolini, JFK, Lenin, Malcolm X, Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, George Bush, and many more. The second part of the Do Now was discussed with parallel ideas, basically concluding that choosing stronger words are the best way to get thoughts across better.
After this, Ms. Peterson showed the class a viewing of Martin Luther King Jr.’s full speech while we all read along on a document located in today’s Google Classroom attachments. Although this took up most of the period, it was very helpful in applying our discussion to his extremely famous speech, as his method in delivering each sentence was clearly successful.
Reflection: All of these aspects to today’s lesson came together at the end when we began working on the “Analyzing Political Speeches: Part 1” worksheet, also found on Google Classroom from today’s attachments. We began to fill out the takeaways from Martin Luther King Jr. 's speech such as who he depicted as the group suffering from those current circumstances, the group benefiting, and what life in the United States would be like if these said circumstances were to become more “fair.” Beginning to complete this worksheet brought light upon the second half of the worksheet and made it clear how comparable Martin Luther’s speech was with Old Major’s speech in Animal Farm, in regards to their content and structure. What we learned was useful in analyzing the extent to which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an extremely historically-successful speech and the extent to which we can relate it to our current reading of Animal Farm.
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