The Age of Napoleon & The Power of Speech

On Thursday 25th, Feb. we finished our look at Napoleon and then did a small project on speech making. If you were absent, you will need to do the following to make up what you missed:

1) Turn in your movie notes from last time.

2) Download the following assignment and complete using your text.

Assignment: Age of Napoleon 

3) Today we discussed and looked at the importance and power of speeches. To illustrate our points and analyze techniques used we listened to clips from three speeches.

IMPORTANT: These speeches were not chosen for their content or to advocate any agendas, but as examples of speeches that are given for different purposes and that show common characteristics of effective speeches. These speeches are political in nature and as such you MAY or MAY NOT find yourself responding to them, that is fine, but remember to look at the fundamental parts of the speech and answer the questions in the packet.

If you missed class, you will need to do the following to make up what you missed:

- Download the packet and answer the first four questions on your own.

Assignment: The Power of Speech

- Watch the following speeches and answer the questions for each one:

SPEECH 1: Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator

SPEECH 2: President Obama (Fast forward the speech to the 8:00 minute mark and watch until about 13:00 minutes)

SPEECH 3: Severn Suzuki (Watch the first 5 minutes is all)

- For part 3, look at question 4 of your packet, choose a topic and come to class with a rough outline of how your speech will go. We will finish them and share them in class.

Thanks.