Speech Analysis Activity | Analyze Madeleine Albright Vital Voices Speech

Description

Teach Madeleine Albright’s Vital Voices speech from 2000 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 speech and accompanying questions will help teach rhetorical devices, audience, and purpose in speeches. This analysis tool also works well with American literature lessons.

Overview of this speech analysis activity:
• Students will read and annotate Madeleine Albright’s Vital Voices speech.

• Students will answer questions concerning language, messaging, intent, and audience appeal.

• This speech lesson should take about an hour.

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 Madeleine Albright.

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

• This speech focuses on women’s human rights; add it to you Women’s History Month activities.

This Madeleine Albright speech activity takes me an entire class period, from reading the speech, to answering the questions, and finally, to discussing the answers.

Do you need more speech analysis activities? Try:

• Susan B. Anthony’s “On Women’s Right to Vote”

• FDR “Day of Infamy” Speech