Speech Analysis Activity | Analyze Susan B. Anthony’s On Women’s Right to Vote

Description

Teach Susan B. Anthony’s famous speech “On Women’s Right to Vote” with this speech analysis activity. This speech activity includes 10 analytical questions in both a PDF and an editable Word document.

Teach an important piece of history and analyze a speech for students to apply pieces to their own speaking skills!

Contents of this speech for rhetorical analysis activity:
Students will answer questions concerning—

• vocabulary

• sentence structure

• tone

• logos

This speech lesson should take about an hour (a link to a short video about Susan B. Anthony is included).

You can build this speech analysis activity into a:

• speech class for speech analysis

• history lesson about women’s rights

• a literature or sociology course with feminism or women’s rights

Add the powerful speech “On Women’s Right to Vote” to your curriculum. This material will work as part of public speaking or American literature lessons.

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