Persuasive Texts or Speeches

Following is a list of persuasive / argumentative speeches. 

Do they do the following:

1. Create and engaging introduction? capture audiences interest?
2. Do they explain their topic / their mission that they want to sell you?
3. Do they say why it is in the public good? why people should care?
4. What evidence do they provide to support their claims ?
5. What evidence do they use to show critics / counter claims - why the "other side should care"?
6. Do they have strong conclusion?
7. What is their call to action?
8. What are your final thought? do you agree ? are you inspired to take action? If not why not?

List of Speeches with docs. 

January  11, 2017 -Text code the following and summarize:  Michelle Obama’s Final Speech,  Meryl Streep’s Golden Globe Speech, and Fake News Takes On A Role In Italy's National Political Debate.

1)  Michelle Obama's Final Speech - importance of education, and standing up for one's values, and protecting them.

2) Meryl Streep's Golden Globe Speech

3) Italian Fake News problem :

We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage. That's why, that's why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our Constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists. Because we're going to need them going forward. And they'll need us to safeguard the truth. (Key Quote - Meryl Steep)

Video clip of Donald Trump mocking reporter

Counter Point - Kelly Anne Conway  (at end of document video)

More on Journalism and Freedom - key links

Committee to ProtectJournalists. 
https://rsf.org/en
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/best-journalism-quotes-ever/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate
https://www.cpj.org/