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Starter #15: How should the United States have responded to the terrorists attacks of 9-11? Had you been a member of Bush's administration, how would you have advised him?
President Bush's Speech: September 20, 2001
Full text of the speech
Rhetorical Analysis: Bush's speech
1. What is President Bush’s message?
2. What is his purpose? What ideas does he
want his audience to accept?
3. What are his motives, both revealed and hidden?
4. Evaluate his use of appeals in this speech.
To what emotions/beliefs/convictions
does he appeal?
5. What ideology
does this rhetoric seek to transmit?
6. How does he use the concept of freedom rhetorically?
7. How does he use the concept of national security rhetorically?
8. What other ideological concepts does he use effectively in his speech?
9. How does this rhetoric impact you as an audience member?
10. Is George Bush’s speech rhetorically effective? Why or why not?Effective Rhetoric! Look at the effect...
Homework
- Finish rhetorical analysis.
- Edmodo: Using your rhetorical analysis as a basis, discuss Bush's speech with each other. Post the most insightful ideas from your analysis to Edmodo and respond to your peers' insights.