Inspiring others to memorize

Congrats - you have worked on something very hard and come out the other end. 

Now - what was the point of memorizing the Gettysburg Address or Give me Liberty or I have a Dream, etc? Remember, I asked you to think through both your process and your experience. Even if you didn't memorize the whole thing and recite it as you planned, you should have something to say about the process of trying to do it. 

Okay, so here is the criteria for the speech:
1. Your audience for the speech is high school seniors.
It is a tough crowd, I know. Imagine that you are the teacher and this is the first day talking about this assignment. What will you say to them to get them to embrace the idea of memorizing Lincoln's speech or Truth's or Kennedy? I would appeal to noble motives and challenge them to achieve a higher level of belief and achievement. 
2. Use all of the tools at your command developing and organizing the speech. 
EPL, rhetorical devices, stories and the organization of the outline. This is where you will use your experience in learning about the address and trying to memorize it. Your personal story will be important for credibility with this audience. You have to be believable when you say this is a worthwhile task to tackle. Have an overall theme or metaphor for this speech to help it hang together. 
3. Besides all of the usual criteria for a speech, you will be required to recite a portion of the speech as part of the whole. 
It needs to be one of the paragraphs from the speech. Enough to impress but not the whole thing. And what portion you choose is important for the way you choose to create the speech. Whatever paragraph you choose, why you chose that one needs to be incorporated into the speech (And the answer cannot be this is the only part I can remember)  

This type of speech, more than any other, depends on the quality and style of your delivery. Your presentation should be direct, showing that you really care about how your students react. You must prove to them that you are sincere and believe in your message. Be confident and forceful, and show enthusiasm and vitality. 

4 This will be your longest speech to date at 4:00 or more minutes. 



This assignment is meant to help you identify and apply basic speech components:
Organization, Rhetorical Devices, Ethos, Pathos, Logos .
Create a Google Doc of your outline and speech proper in the folder you created
then share it with me. 

Learning Objectives:

• Learn to use a variety of speech tactics

• Learn to apply lessons from the memorization speech to another speech

• Learn to apply what you have learned to your own speech organization

How to get started on the Inspirational Speech

Go look at three other speeches and write down what worked and why (analysis) 

Puke about your memorization experience. You should have plenty of notes to help you think this through from your own experience to watching others give speeches. 

Begin to sketch out your idea on paper. Think about the unifying thread you want to use to tie the idea together. This is not outlining this is speech writing. Here is where you may want to use your story as your jumping-off point. Think mind mapping.

Now it is time to outline. Look for the places you have incorporated ethos, pathos, and logos. Point out where you have used rhetorical devices. How did you choose to organize your speech?

Don’t forget to add your speech reasoning at the end of your outline.

Don't forget to include your word-for-word speech.