HW 4
Vocal Variation
This assignment is to help you recognize the importance and techniques of vocal variation by listening to high quality speeches delivered. by people recognized for the importance of what they say and how they say it . You will need to:
1. Go to americanrhetoric.com
2. Click on the Top 100 speeches link
3. Click on “All speeches by rank”
4. You must select 1 of the following speeches that is available by audio in its entirety. Listen to the speech. If it is available in video I recommend that you DO NOT WATCH IT. In our culture one has a tendency to allow the visual to overshadow the oral. These are in no particular order.
homework assignment follows:
- Labeled “Purpose”: Write the purpose of the speech in no more than 3 sentences
- Labeled “Opening/Closing” Identify the opening and closing statements of the speech. Summarize them in a few words. In 1 – 2 paragraphs compare the opening and closing.
- In a minimum of 300 words
- Analyze the style of delivery, the vocal tones, pace and way in which the speech is delivered.
- Does the style of delivery add or subtract from the message and purpose of the speech?
- Are there unique ways in which the delivery impacts the speech? Explain why or why not.
- How does the speech reflect the position, ethos and reputation of the speaker?
The 4 speech choices
# 52 Mary Fisher
A Whisper of Aids
1992 Republican National Convention Address
Delivered by a Republican woman who has AIDS, this address is about the need for the Republican Party and the nation as a whole to reconsider the politicization of AIDs.
# 54 George C. Marshall
The Marshall Plan
delivered 5 June 1947 at Harvard University
This address at Harvard outlines Marshall’s Plan for the US to lead the way in rebuilding Eurpoe after the devastations of WWII.
# 10 Lyndon Baines Johnson
Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation
“We Shall Overcome”
delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.
At a critical time in the History of The US, as Congress was set to vote on extending the right to vote to black citizens [one of last vestiges of the Civil War], President Johnson seeks to put it into context what Congress is being asked to do.
# 47 Barbara Pierce Bush
Commencement Address at Wellesley College
delivered 1 June 1990
First Lady Barbara Bush is invited to speak at this college graduation when the author, Alice Walker, is not available to address the graduating class at this all female college.
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