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Overview
In this part of the lesson, teachers assign the speech to individual students (not groups) as part of a formative, in-class practice for the rhetorical analysis part of the AP exam. |
Assign the Speech as a Rhetorical Analysis Prompt
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Distribute and Annotate
Plan and Organize
Write and Review
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Part II: Re-View and Play
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Overview
In this part of the lesson, BEFORE they get their papers back, have students work together to explore and analyze the speech after playing with it in groups and seeing it in performance. |
See the Speech in Performance // Re-Annotate
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Discuss // Review // Rewrite
Summative Rewrite
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Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise
Hath chid down all the majesty of England; Imagine that you see the wretched strangers, Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, Plodding to the ports and coasts for transportation, And that you sit as kings in your desires, Authority quite silent by your brawl, And you in ruff of your opinions clothed; What had you got? I’ll tell you: you had taught How insolence and strong hand should prevail, How order should be quelled; and by this pattern Not one of you should live an aged man, For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought, With self same hand, self reasons, and self right, Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes Would feed on one another…. Say now the king Should so much come too short of your great trespass As but to banish you, whither would you go? What country, by the nature of your error, Should give you harbour? go you to France or Flanders, To any German province, to Spain or Portugal, Nay, any where that not adheres to England, Why, you must needs be strangers: would you be pleased To find a nation of such barbarous temper, That, breaking out in hideous violence, Would not afford you an abode on earth, Whet their detested knives against your throats, Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that God Owed not nor made not you, nor that the claimants Were not all appropriate to your comforts, But chartered unto them, what would you think To be thus used? this is the strangers case; And this your mountainish inhumanity. |