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FAMOUS SPEECHES
By Carla Hedge
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Introduction | Task | Process | Resources | Evaluation | Conclusion | Reflection | Extensions | Notes to Teacher
Can you imagine that a speech you gave ten, fifty, one hundred or over two hundred years ago is still being remembered today? You will have the chance to examine the words of some famous, and not so famous, speeches given by people in the history of the United States of America.
Your task will be to select one of the speeches available. You will read the speech and select key components of the speech. You will find out the reason the speech was given, what year it was given and where it was given. You will portray this information by either dressing up yourself, a doll, or make a puppet in the clothing of the era of your speech maker!
1) You may work in groups of two to three.
2) You will select one the following speeches:
George Washington's Farewell Speech
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Martin Luther King, Junior's I Have A Dream
Susan B. Anthony Women's Right to Vote
Ronald Reagan Space Shuttle Challenger
Shirley Chisholm Address to The United States House of Representatives
Davy Crockett Speech to Congress
Florence Kelley Speech on Child Labor and Women's Suffrage
Chief Joseph Surrender Speech
**NOTE**Each speech can only be selected once. Any duplicate choices will be eliminated by the scientific method of drawing a name out of a hat.
3) You must read the speech. Your group will present the speech to the class. You will decide who will recite which part.
4) You will create a costume for yourselves, a doll or a puppet to portray the speech giver and the dress of the era in which the speech was given.
5) You must be prepared to explain the situation for which the speech was given, the era in which your speech was given and the place the speech given in your presentation to the class.
Click here to go to your list of resources
Click here to go to Famous Speeches WebQuest Rubric
Each student will have an individual rubric with a possible total of 50 points. An additional 5 points can be earned by answering each question in the Reflection portion of this WebQuest. An additional 5 points can be earned by writing the statement in indicated in the Conclusion portion of this WebQuest.
Total points possible for this WebQuest = 60.
Now you have read or heard words that were written ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred or two hundred years ago. Now you may understand from hearing the background information why this speech has been recorded and read many years later. Perhaps you will write something in your lifetime that may be repeated many years from now. Select one of the speeches you have heard given by you fellow classmates and write a statement on what the speech meant to you.
Answer these questions and turn in to me, or e-mail your answers to me.
Did the Internet make this research process different?
How did you feel at first about this project?
How do you feel after completing this project?
What other research projects would you like to see done through webquests?
Did your group work effectively together?
Make your presentation to other classes in the school.
Videotape your presentation to show to other classes.
Click here to go to Teacher Notes
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