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I would like to incorporate original, historical speeches into our high school (listening to and reading). We have to show some documentation so I’m wondering about some creative ways to do this. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Cindy
I found a book and CD set at the bargain section at Borders recently that had historical speeches. Maybe having that “course” as a spine book/title would be enough documentation and then you could add to or tweak it as desired.
We used Nograss’ American History curriculum and incorporated into the program was ‘American Voices: A Collection of Documents, Speeches, Essays, Hymns, Poems and Short Stories from American History’. I’m sure you could purchase that book separately without having to do the whole history program.
Good luck!
I just looked at the Notgrass and it looks great, but it just occurred to me that since there are oodles of speeches already online, I should not have to buy something. But what do we actually ‘do’ with them? Summarize, outline, rewrite…I’m hoping for some ideas.
Cindy-
How old are your kids? Depending on their ages you could have them listen to the speech, have them use it, or excerpts of it, for copywork, memorize a passage to recite, do a little background research to see why the speech was so important, if they are working on typing skills you could dictate it to them and they could type it. I think that maybe rewritting them in their own words is a good idea, too.
Just some thoughts!!
I have Sonya’s book and CD set.
It is called Speeches That Changed the World: The Stories and Transcripts of the Moments That Made History. Speeches include those from Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell, Washington, Jefferson, Napoleon, Lincoln, Gandhi, Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Nixon, Reagan, Gorbachev, George W. Bush, and many others. We’ve enjoyed getting an inside look to each historical character. It really adds to a study of a person in history if you can read/hear what he thought of himself even though what actually happened may have been different from his perspective. However, as always use discretion when determining which speeches to study.
We just did some oral narrations and discussion on what she thought about the speeches. I guess we could’ve done some written narrations, but we did use it as part of the curriculum so we just followed their guidelines.
Ideas?….hmmm: Write your own speech about _____(whatever the topic was of the original speech);
Research reactions to __________(specific speech) and write an essay describing opposing reactions;
How did the speech inspire others to effect change?;
Write an essay describing your own reaction to the speech stating why you would or would not have supported that person.;
Research what it was that led that person to give the speech.;
Write an essay on the relevance of _______(specific speech) to our lives today.
Are these the sort of ideas you were looking for? I haven’t had breakfast, so my brain is a bit sluggish!
It is called Speeches That Changed the World: The Stories and Transcripts of the Moments That Made History. Speeches include those from Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell, Washington, Jefferson, Napoleon, Lincoln, Gandhi, Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Nixon, Reagan, Gorbachev, George W. Bush, and many others. 
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