Readings and Homework for this week:
This week we will continue our discussion of how the ideas,
issues and
rhetorical discourse that defined America in the Revolutionary Period
and
through the Abolitionist and the Woman Suffrage Movements, continue to
be
used in Civil Rights discourse and into contemporary political
discourse. Papers will come in on Tuesday.
Please bring
the review material pages with you
to class on Tuesday and Thursday this week so that we can look at them
together as time permits at the end of each class session.
I'll just plan on collecting questions regularly now until
the end of the term to help with classwork point totals.
T
9 More Americans Becoming Visible: The Gay
Rights Movement Presentation by Emily
McKnight [Fisher]
Read:
Mary Fisher, "A Whisper of
AIDS," 1992, online at: http://gos.sbc.edu/f/fisher.html ; Urvashi
Vaid, "Speech At The March On
Washington," April 25, 1993 online at
http://gos.sbc.edu/w/vaid.html
R
11 Redefining America During Conflict
Read: George W. Bush
Congressional Address, "Freedom
at War with Fear," Sept. 20, 2001; online at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010920-8.html ;
George W. Bush "Freedom
and the Future," Feb. 27, 2003, online at
http://www.nationalreview.com/document/document022703.asp ; Senator
Robert Byrd, "Today,
I Weep for My Country," March 19, 2003, on-line at Senatory Byrd's
website, http://byrd.senate.gov/byrd_speeches/
Study Questions for Tuesday
1. Fisher's speech is a call to action. First, identify the
specific action(s) she wants the Republican Party to take, then note
the examples she uses in the speech to show individual people how to
act.
2. Vaid's address at the Gay Rights March on Washington is in many ways
an effort to meet the moral outrage of those opposed to Gay Rights with
the moral outrage of the members of the movement. How does she
evaluate the morality of both sides in the debate? Who does she
claim occupies the moral high ground and why?
Study Questions for Thursday
1. Would you say that Bush's Sept. 20, 2001 address is informative,
persuasive, or epideictic? Justify your answer making reference
to the speech.
2. The central term of Bush's Feb. 27, 2003 address is "freedom."
How does he use this term/idea throughout the speech? What does
it mean?
3. What is the goal of Robert Byrd's speech of March 19, 2003?
What rhetoricial strategies does he use to try to reach that goal?
Announcements
Sample Final Paper is Here
Final Exam Description and Review Materials are available
Classwork points discussion is available
Overhead on Inaugural Addresses
Overheads on Characteristics of
Abolitionism (from Tuesday, Sept. 16)
Review of Concepts of Rhetoric Discussed on
August 28.
Overhead on Puritanism
Overheads on the Stamp
Act and Townshend Duties
Information on the Outside Speech
Assignment for Classwork Points is now Available here
Major Assignment Guidelines and Information:
Guidelines for all written
assignments.
Details on Paper Assignment 1
Details on Paper Assignment 2
Details on Paper Assignment 3
topic submission form for paper 3
Additional Support Materials
Timeline for the Puritan Movement
Timeline for the American Revolution
Timeline for the Abolition Movement
Timeline for the Woman Suffrage Movement
Library
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