ON-LINE TASK 4

Question:
1. Think of at least 3 benefits of using speeches by famous figures, in the classroom.

i.                    inject motivation among students that their dream can be realized too.

ii.                  Students could be able to find their good role- model

iii.                 Students listen to an authentic materials which enable them to learn what happened, what is happening and what will happen. It is important to make them alert and observance

2. Go to www.youtube.com and find the audio-visual on the speech. In not less than 50 words, state would the audio-visual be of any use in helping understand the speech better? State your reasons.

     The use of audio-visual will enable students to understand a speech better. I will discuss

How body language, gesture and tone of  a speaker will help students to understand the meaning better. Body language in a speech is movement of a speaker which is synchronized with the words use in a speech. As an example when a speaker says the  word, ‘I’, s/he may touch his palm on her/his chest.   in a way to thank God, a speaker may spread her/his hand out to sky . Bow down to show respect. Gesture is also will help a speaker to deliver his/her emotions to the audiences. Martin shows his courage and determination in his gesture. The last one is tone. Tone is the up and down of the speaker voice in her/his speech. Tone of a speaker also can deliver his true massage. In Martin Luther King ‘s speech, his tone is passionate and persuasive.

3. Who is Martin Luther King?

      Martin Luther King (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968 is an American Clergyman, activist and

      Prominent leader of  the  African-American Civil Rights Movement. He fights for the civil

      right  in America and around the world. The most important is he leads his people to fight for

      justice in peace way or  without violence. 

4. Based on the questions below, analyse the features of the given written speech:
a. What is the purpose of the speech?

     To invite all the black people and white people to unite against the 
     racism not in the violence way but in the peace way.

b. What is the tone of the speech?

   
    Passionate and persuasive. He does not criticize the white men for being cruel to  
   negro in the past, before the speech is made. He tries to persuade
   the audiences to unite to gain freedom with  white people  who share same
   mind with them. He keeps on repeating that he and his audiences share the 
   same dream-wanting for equal right with white man and to free
   them from being enslaved.



c. What interesting major feature(s) can you see from the speech?
 (i.e.Repetition of phrases,  emphasis on certain things said etc)

                                                                                           This feature show how certain words is repeated in the speech of Martin Luther King

             ( http://sixminutes.dlugan.com/speech-analysis-dream-martin-luther-king )
Repetition- repetition is made to always remind his audiences of the theme of the speech and what they should do to achieve the goal that is to gain freedom without using violence. It is also to show that his struggle is the concern of every black people.

one thing that is valuable as a teacher is the way he visualizes the abstract things by using comparison  so people may understand his speech. In the classroom we can use this technique to scaffold students to understand something that is hard to them to understand. Below are the examples on how he explain that  he talks something very important for their future by doing comparison.

 Justice is actually already there for a long time but it is not use by people who may concern.

"But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice."


"Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood."  In this sentence he tries to compare what is happening to what what kind of thing suppose to be.

d. Any interesting facts that you can gather based on the background of the speech?
      i.                    “I Have a Dream” is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s most memorable speech. It was 
                 delivered in  August 28, 1963 . It is attended by more than 200,000 people in front 
                 of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The intention was to gain equal right 
                 from white people.

ii.                  The Negro people position in the white society is inferior. They are not allowed to mingle with the white people or share public amenities, hospital treatment and right to vote for their government leaders.

iii.                King mastered both American History and the Holy Scripture(Bible) Made his speech very ethical 

5. Suggest a while-reading activity that can be derived from this particular speech.
      
       CIA on duty ( group activity)

Students are assigned into 5 groups. I group consist of 5 students. They are called CIA agent. They are required to listen once again the speech of Martin Luther. Their task is to figure out the massages that Martin tries to deliver to the black people. As CIAs, they should be able to predict what would the black people do after the speech. Based on their prediction, what action they can plan to prevent any negative thing to happen.