Speech Presentations

Mrs. Kirkman had given us a very interesting project. We had to choose a speech and dissect it, to find the SOAPTS, rhetorical devices, and many other things. This week, we got the chance to present our amazing PowerPoint presentations in front of the whole class. It is not as easy as it sounds. I enjoyed listening and really understanding each pairs presentation. One that really stuck in my mind was Harout's and Mike's speech project. It was on Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech about the attack on Pearl Harbor, which occurred during World War I by the Japanese army. They had started of the presentation, with a small biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt. His tone was serious, but comforting. By using the word we, and our he was relating to the whole nation. The audience were the people at the speech and all Americans around the world. Their presentation was interesting and heartfelt. Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam. Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands. Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island. They explained these few sentences. Roosevelt used parallelism ,one of the rhetorical devices, to emphasize the places Japan had attacked.