I Have A Dream Speech Analysis Lesson Plan | Education Blog - Flocabulary Find Every Literary Term in Martin Luther King Jr.’s Most Famous Speech Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. led a march on Washington, D.C. This lesson plan allows students to review literary terms, rhetorical devices and figurative language with a scavenger hunt through “I Have a Dream” speech. The Lesson Plan 1. 3. 4. 5. 6. Examples of Literary Terms in the “I Have a Dream Speech” AlliterationThe repetition of sounds makes the speech more catchy and memorable. In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Anaphora This term describes the most famous part of the speech: King’s repetition of “I have a dream.” A musical metaphor:
Langston Hughes: Poems Study Guide : Summary and Analysis of "The Weary Blues" "The Weary Blues" Summary: The speaker describes hearing a "Negro" play a "drowsy syncopated tune" while swaying back and forth on Lenox Avenue a few nights ago, under the light of a gas lamp. The "Negro" lazily sways to the Weary Blues, touching his ebony hands to the ivory keys and making his piano "moan with melody." In response, the speaker calls out, "O Blues!" The "Negro" sways back and forth on his stool and plays the mournful tune like a "musical fool." The singer's foot thumps on the floor as he plays more chords and sings that he has the Weary Blues and cannot be satisfied; he is no longer happy and wishes he were dead. Analysis: “The Weary Blues” is one of Langston Hughes's “blues” poems. Hughes wrote "The Weary Blues" in free verse with an irregular rhyme scheme, mimicking the natural patterns of speech and music. Hughes embraced blues music because it expressed the worries of the common man in a simple and direct manner.
Langston Hughes: Poems Themes Music Music, particularly blues and jazz, permeates Langston Hughes's oeuvre. Many of his poems have an identifiable rhythm or beat. The lines read like the verses in a blues song and echo themes that are common in blues music, like sorrow, lost love, anger, and hopelessness. Hughes frequently alludes to music that originated during the era of slavery, using a 'call and response' pattern for auditory effect and to create a link between the past and the present. By invoking the musical traditions of slaves, Hughes connects himself to the painful history of African Americans. The American Dream Many of Langston Hughes’s poems invoke the theme of the American Dream. Dignity During Langston Hughes's time, his African American readers felt that the poet's work directly explored their lives, their hopes, their fears, their past, and their dreams - as opposed to the obtuse modernism of poets like T.S. Aspiration Hughes often writes about aspirations as dreams. Racism Wisdom Self-Actualization
Religion in American History: Martin Luther King on Barry Goldwater: Surprising or Otherwise Interesting Primary Sources, Part IX Randall Stephens Martin Luther King, Jr., reflected on the career and influence of Barry Goldwater several years after LBJ's landslide victory. (With all the media attention to King's legacy and uses of the past, a look at King's own views might shed some much needed light.) King observed the rightward turn of the Republican Party in 1964, the intense anti-government polices of Goldwater, and the Radical Right presence at the GOP convention. But what bothered King more was Goldwater's domestic policies. On social and economic issues, Mr. *From The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, ed., Clayborne Carson (Time Warner, 1998), 247.
SEA Semester | Study Abroad with SEA Semester: Ocean Science & Sailing Program - Nautical, Maritime, & Oceanography Studies | SPICE Atlas Project: Moorea Moorea: Maritime History and Culture When Polynesians first arrived at Moorea, they were unable to survive solely on the terrestrial resources and developed a close relationship with the ocean. This relationship shaped early Moorean culture and is still important. Religion Early Polynesian religion was closely connected to the ocean.In ancient Polynesia, Tangaroa was worshiped as the God of the sea and the ocean was viewed as having its own spiritual aura (Elliott, 2004). The Canoes of Polynesian Immigration Evidence suggests that Polynesians settled Moorea and the other Society Islands sometime between 700 and 1150 A.D. There were single hulled canoes, which varied greatly in size. Many variations were developed from the basic single-hull design. Many Polynesian boats were also equipped with sails, which enabled them to travel further distances. Developing a thorough understanding of ancient Polynesian boats is difficult, due to the lack of surviving physical evidence. Fishing in Moorea
United States of America timeline A chronology of key events: 1565 - First permanent European settlement in North America - St Augustine, present-day Florida - founded by the Spanish. North America is already inhabited by several distinct groups of people, who go into decline following the arrival of settlers. 1607 - Jamestown, Virginia, founded by English settlers, who begin growing tobacco. 1620 - Plymouth Colony, near Cape Cod, is founded by the Pilgrim Fathers, whose example is followed by other English Puritans in New England. 17th-18th centuries - Hundreds of thousands of Africans brought over and sold into slavery to work on cotton and tobacco plantations. 1763 - Britain gains control of territory up to the Mississippi river following victory over France in Seven Years' War. War of Independence 1774 - Colonists form First Continental Congress as Britain closes down Boston harbour and deploys troops in Massachusetts. 1783 - Britain accepts loss of colonies by virtue of Treaty of Paris. Civil War Global assertiveness
World | Americas | 'I have a dream' On 28 August, 1963, Martin Luther King delivered his magnificent "I have a dream speech" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Below is the full text of his speech. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. But 100 years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. And so we've come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of colour are concerned. Sweltering summer... of discontent We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. There will be neither rest nor tranquillity in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.