Speech Analysis Activity | Analyze FDR Day of Infamy President Roosevelt

Description

Teach FDR’s famous speech “Day of Infamy” with this speech analysis activity. This speech activity includes 10 analytical questions in both PDF and an editable Word document.

Are you looking to add to your collection of speeches for rhetorical analysis? This famous FDR speech and accompanying questions will help teach rhetorical devices in speeches.

Overview of this speech analysis activity:
• Students will read or listen to FDR’s famous “Day of Infamy” speech.

• Students will answer questions concerning language, intent, tone, anaphora, and pathos.

• This speech lesson should take about an hour (a link to a short video about Pearl Harbor is included).

Possible uses for this speech analysis:

• Build this speech analysis into a speech class to study common speech concepts.

* Add this speech activity to a history lesson about FDR.

• Incorporate methods to analyze a speech into an English class, perhaps AP literature.

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