Great Speeches: An Introduction to Rhetoric

Click on the button above to access a booklet that contains twelve speeches from the figures below…

• 1599 Mark Anthony’s funeral oration
• 1852 Frederick Douglass’s Fourth of July speech
• 1863 Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address
• 1913 Emmeline Pankhurst’s Freedom or Death speech
• 1939 Neville Chamberlain’s speech to the House of Commons
• 1952 Richard Nixon’s ‘Checkers’ speech
• 1962 Harvey Milk’s Gay Freedom Day Parade speech
• 1963 Martin Luther King’s March for Jobs and Freedom address
• 1996 Nora Ephron’s Wellesley College commencement address
• 2008 Barak Obama’s election night speech
• 2010 Julia Gillard’s ‘misogyny’ speech
• 2021 Sandra Oh’s Stop Asian Hate protest speech

I’ve included a short introduction to each one, as per the example below…

The lines are 1.5 spaced and there’s plenty of room in the margins for annotations etc. Everything is fully editable.

➡️ Click here to access a full set of clips and extra details on the context of the speeches.

Hope the stuff’s useful –

Doug

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