Last Day of Class

Agenda

• Make Up Vocabulary Quiz• Organizing Your Speech• Revising/Restructuring

Essay 4 for Your Speech• Timing Your Speech• Practice Your Speech

Make-up Vocabulary Exam

• You may make up any one exam (1-5).

• Let me know which one you want.

• You have 15 minutes to finish the Exam.

• May the force be with you!

King followed Monroe’s Motivated Sequence: A Method in Five Steps!

The five steps of the Monroe motivated sequence:

1. attention

2. need

3. satisfaction

4. visualization

5. action

The Attention Step

• In the attention step, speakers call attention to the situation. King, speaking from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, calls attention to Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the situation of the Negro today (“One hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.”), and the fact that the words of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence granting all people the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have not been fulfilled.

The Need Step

• For the need step, speakers describe the difficulty, trouble, distress, crisis, emergency, or urgency. King says, “Instead of honoring this sacred obligation [what the Constitution and Declaration of Independence promise], America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check that has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’” And why have they come to Washington, D.C.? — to “remind America of the fierce urgency of now.”

The Satisfaction Step

• In the satisfaction step, speakers tell listeners how to satisfy the need they establish. King says, “We must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.” To march ahead, he said, “We can never be satisfied.” Then he tells listeners to go back home knowing their situation can and will be changed.

The Visualization StepFor visualization, speakers offer listeners a vision of what life can be once their solution (offered in the satisfaction step) is adopted. This is where King offers listeners his dream: “I have a dream” offered along with five different descriptions of what life can and will be like in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, in communities, and around the world.

ORGANIZE YOUR SPEECH

GET OUT YOUR ESSAY #4

Side by Side

Essay OutlineI. Presentation of the problem

A. Its existenceB. Its seriousnessC. Its causes

II. Consequences of failing to solve the problemIII. Description of the proposed solutionIV. List of steps for implementing the solutionV. Reasons and support for the solution

A. Acknowledgment of objectionsB. Accommodation or refutation of objections

VI. Consideration of alternative solutions and their disadvantagesVII. Restatement of the proposed solution and its advantagesVII. End with an inspiring call to action.

Speech OutlineI. In the attention step, speakers call

attention to the situation. (The Problem)II. For the need step, speakers describe the

difficulty, trouble, distress, crisis, emergency, or urgency. (Its Seriousness)

III. In the satisfaction step, speakers tell listeners how to satisfy the need they establish. (The Solution)

IV. For visualization, speakers offer listeners a vision of what life can be once their solution (offered in the satisfaction step) is adopted. (The Promise)

V. The final stage is the action step when speakers offer listeners a specific course of action to follow. (Call to Action: Conclusion)

The Action Step

The final stage is the action step when speakers offer listeners a specific course of action to follow. King’s action step occurs when he asks his audience to “Let freedom ring,” and he uses the phrase at the end of the speech focusing on eight states symbolizing the whole nation.

Homework

Prepare for your speech!

Be a good audience member!

Bring a printed hard copy of Essay 5 to class. Essay 5 is a written version of your speech and needs to be in MLA format.

Remember: Our final exam is Monday 4-6:00 p.m.