Analyzing Rhetoric: What can be learned from popular culture's role models?
Directions: With a partner, you will view and actively read one of the following commencement addresses:President Barack Obama's 2013 Commencement Address to Morehouse College, The Harry Potter Series author J.K Rowling's 2008 Commencement Address to Harvard University , or Apple's Former Founder and Innovator Steve Jobs' 2005 Commencement Address to Stanford University.
Technology Considerations:
You will choose one of the following speeches and open the .pdf in DocAs. The directions for annotating the speech are written in the If-Then Summary Assessment document found below. Below the files, each commencement address has a video.
Technology Considerations:
- You must have access to DocAs in order to manipulate the documents.
You will choose one of the following speeches and open the .pdf in DocAs. The directions for annotating the speech are written in the If-Then Summary Assessment document found below. Below the files, each commencement address has a video.
DocAs Tutorial:
The Commencement Addresses:
Note: Instructor will need to chunk the text based on the ability levels of students. You will want to divide the reading into a minimum of four sections, but with struggling readers, it is recommended to add more.
Barack Obama's Morehouse College Commencement Address: 2013
president-barack-obama-morehouse-college-transcipt.pdf | |
File Size: | 116 kb |
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J.K Rowling's "The Benefits of Failure" Harvard Commencement Address: 2008
the_fringe_benefits_of_failure.pdf | |
File Size: | 111 kb |
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Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Address: 2005
transcript-of-commencement-speech-at-stanford-given-by-steve-jobs.pdf | |
File Size: | 24 kb |
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The Guided Reading Sheet: Rubric is Listed First
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Rubric for the Guided Reading Activities:
guided_reading_sheet_rubric.pdf | |
File Size: | 205 kb |
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Guided Reading Sheet: Annotating a Text and If-Then Microsummary
guided_reading_sheet.pdf | |
File Size: | 194 kb |
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Commencement Address Videos
Barack Obama's Commencement Address to Morehouse College
J.K Rowling's Commencement Address to Harvard
Steve Jobs' Commencement Address to Stanford University