Speech!

You will be assigned to a group and a speech.
Step 1: Read your speech aloud in your group!  Go around and bump to each other.
Step 2: Discuss the questions below, then answer them on a separate sheet of paper.  You only have to turn in one per group, unless I get the impression that someone is checked out, in which case, each group member will have to turn in an answer sheet!
Step 3: Decide, as a group, who will summarize your speech for the rest of the class.  As a group, choose 3 key quotes from the speech that elucidate (vocab word!) the most important points of the speech.

Kennedy: http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/detail/3375
Lewis: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/sources/ps_washington.html
King: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/17/i-have-a-dream-speech-text_n_809993.html

Questions on the reading:

1) What are the first three words that come to mind when you think about what you just read?  List your personal choices, then discuss them with your group and come up with a group answer, as well.

2) We've been talking a lot about the tension between the states and the federal government.  Thinking about that, how does your speech describe the role played by the Federal Government in the Civil Rights Movement?

3) What is the role of the Federal Government in ensuring equal rights for African Americans, according to your speech?

4) What does your speaker think is the key to changing the second-class status of African Americans in American life?

5) Based upon your prior knowledge of the status of African-Americans in the United States at this time, and your speech, which speech or speaker gives the best explanation of the U.S. Government's relationship to the Civil Rights Movement?