Thursday, December 08, 2016

FDR Speech Prewriting

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Answer in complete sentences in detail and submit hard copy responses on November 28, 2016.


What is the controversial and unpopular suggestion that Roosevelt hopes his audience will accept?

SOAP(STONE)
Subject
Occasion
Audience
Purpose
Speaker
TONE

What is the subject of the inaugural address?

What is the occasion of the inaugural address? (Occasion:  Why the speech or essay came into existence?)(Because he became the thirty-second president of the United States)(100 234, 2,546 or over you may use numerals; one to ninety-nine)  twenty-one; twenty-two; forty-one; ninety-nine sixteen nineteen

Who is the audience of the inaugural address? (people who arrived in D.C. to hear the new president make his first speech of his presidency for the entire United States)

What is the purpose of the inaugural address?

Identify examples of ethos, pathos and logos in the inaugural address.  Cite specific quotes to provide evidence of your analysis. (ethos-ethics credentials-trust-believable counterargument-accountability-fairness) pathos (loaded words--emotional appeal); logos (does it make sense—is it logical? facts, statistics)

Cite any other rhetorical devices in the inaugural address and provide evidence of their purpose and effect.

List any shifts of tone in the inaugural address.  Be specific. (inspiring; hopeful; optimistic; persuasive; candid; ceremonial; forthright; authoritative; determined)

List any unfamiliar diction in the inaugural address. (callous-cruel disregard-wrongdoing); (languishes-fatigue due to amount of work-lack of vitality)(curtailment-action or fact of reducing or restricting something, such as crime)






Cite one example of each of the following sentence types (syntax):

a.     Declarative-states a fact or makes a statement (.)
b.     Interrogative-asks a question (?)
c.     Imperative-polite command or request (You)—understood to be the subject (.) (!)
d.     Exclamatory-mild excitement (!)



Carefully read President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address, paying special attention to Roosevelt’s use of language and the techniques he employs to guide his audience to hopefully accept a possibly controversial and unpopular suggestion.  Then, write a thoughtful and well-supported paper in which you analyze the techniques Roosevelt uses to maintain his hearers’ interest and support.  Do not merely summarize the passage or list the various devices used.

OUTLINE of FDR FIRST INAUGURAL (Harvard Outline)
(sentence outline) (NOT a phrase outline) DO NOT MIX!  It has to be all sentences OR all phrases.
Never have a A. without a B.; never have a 1. without a 2.

I.               Roosevelt’s Inaugural Address is an important step in healing a country devastated by the Depression.

A.    This speech uses language and rhetorical devices to get his audience’ attention so they will accept his ideas about how to improve the country.
B.    The controversial and unpopular suggestion the president makes is something that the audience has never heard and the president must lead them to understand that war is necessary to fight this battle.
C.