King: I Have A Dream

For the handouts, click on the links below:

• differences in rhetorical strategies between written and spoken texts;
• how to discern patterns in texts and determine the significance of them – how authors use parallel structures, anaphora, repetition effectively;
• the power of allusion;
• rhetorical appeals;
• using figurative, particularly metaphoric language effectively;
• how to divide texts into sections to analyze and ascertain the purpose of each section;
• how to analyze arrangement – how form is related to function;
• how authors consider audience when composing meaningful texts;
• how to transition effectively;
• how authors choose effective diction.

I Have A Dream Questions and Activities (pdf file)
The handout distributed in class
I Have A Dream by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (pdf file)
The complete text of the speech

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