Self-Evaluation of Recorded Speech

After watching your speech, you need to comment on your speech in several areas. Be specific and thorough. You will not receive full credit for short/one-word answers. I am looking for true analysis and critical thinking.

1. What did you notice about your use of gestures (Did you use them? Did you use enough?
Were they distracting? Did they match what you were saying? Were you needlessly
fidgeting?)?
2. What did you notice about your voice (i.e. volume, tone/vocal variety, rate, etc.)?
3. How did you feel about the content of your speech (Was it interesting? Did it make sense?
Etc.)?
4. What were the strengths of this speech?
5. What were the weaknesses of this speech?
6. What will you work to improve for next time? Here you may also express any final overall
impressions of your speech that you did not discuss in the previous questions. If you wish to
state how successful you were, this is the place to do it.

Braveheart Freedom Speech

Watch the speech. Then in a formal blog post summarize the speaker's purpose and then identify three rhetorical techniques and their intended effect on the audience. Discuss how well their chosen techniques worked or what he could do better.

Advertisement Analysis

For this week’s blog you will choose an advertisement either print or television.  You will need to place the advertisement on your blog.  Then you will write your post answering the questions in an essay format. This should be one of the advertisements that you analyzed on the Advertisement Analysis Worksheet.

1. How does the advertisement attempt to get your attention?

2. What is it an advertisement trying to sell? (Note- This should include the product and anything else they are trying to sell: lifestyle, image, fun, newest, best, etc)

3.  Who is the target audience or demographics for this product? Explain their age, ethnicity, class, profession, interests etc.

4.  What is the “text” of the message? What we actually see and/or hear: written or spoken words, photos, drawings, logos, design, music, sounds etc.)

5. What propaganda techniques were used? Explain their usage.

6.  How does the advertisement try to convince you buy  this product. Does it use pathos, logos, ethos? Explain.

a. How does the message make you feel?

b. How doe the images reinforce this/these feelings?

c.  How does the music/ sounds reinforce this/these feelings?

d.   Is the name of the product significant? Explain.

9. What information do you think has been left out of this advertisement? Why?

10.  Rate this advertisement on its effectiveness- does it catch and keep your attention? If you were in the market for this type of product, would you purchase it from this company?Why or why not?

11.  What would you change about this ad?

12. Where was this ad used? Magazine? TV? Internet? Explain the reasoning the manufacturer probably chose this venue.

13.  Assess how ethical is this advertisement.

Final Essay on MLK and Malcolm

Your final assignment from last week's blog and the in class assignments will be to write an essay answering the central question, " Were Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.'s messages as different as people often portray them? Using the biography information, analysis of their speeches from the blog last week and in class videos, and other documents support your conclusions.  You should set up your essay with a thesis and textual support.  I expect to see specifics in your essay. This will be your blog for the week and due on Thursday by 4:00 instead of Wednesday.

Converging Ideas

This week we are examining a few different speeches by two men working for Civil Rights.  Below are two speeches to watch.  I would like you to listen to their words.  Instead of our usual analysis of the speeches, I would like to know what you know about Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.  I would also like you to listen to these two speeches and then based on what they are saying write what they have in common and what is different about their messages.  In class we will also examine a few more of their speeches and continue comparing and contrasting these to men and their ideas on Civil Rights.  Remember to think about their intended audience and what techniques they use to build their ethos, logos and pathos.

Transcript for "Where Do We Go From Here Speech"

Transcript for "I have a Dream Speech"

The transcript for this speech is in the show more info below the speech on Youtube.

Transcript for "Ballots and Bullets" Speech Below is the complete speech, we only will listen to a few excerpts from the speech.  Listening to the full speech is optional and you do not have to listen to the full speech.

Sonia Shah: 3 Reasons We Still Haven’t Gotten Rid of Malaria

After watching this informative speech analyze her techniques and what she did well in presenting her information.  This is the next type of speech you will be doing for class.  Be sure to note things you might be able to emulate in your own speech.

* Be sure to read previous comments I have left for you, so you can correct things that may be costing your points.

Blog Post Week 2 Steve Jobs Speech

We have heard a lot about story telling in speeches.  Steve Jobs uses the story telling technique to make some great points in this graduation speech. Use your analysis tools to write your analysis of this graduation speech. Listen carefully and be a great audience.  You will definitely learn a few things from this speaker.