Argumentative speech brainstorming ideas:

1.LGBTQ+ education at WWHS, 2. cultural diversity classes at WWHS.

Possible paths for each one:

1. I could talk about how it was growing up in the WWHS community and how there was no education on LGBTQ+ issues. I can talk about the LGBTQ+ percentage at Whitman and then talk about how this could be easy to include in health and history classes
2. I could talk about the issues at Whitman with diversity to show the audience why we need diversity classes at the school. I could also talk about the community as a whole and talk about how there is little to no diversity in Bethesda. I would propose plans to fix the issue by talking about classes that could be introduced and how they could change the curriculum to be more inclusive.

 

Example of Argumentative speech:

I chose this speech because Mr. Smith does a very good job with his delivery. When he is speaking it seems very natural and he doesn’t seem uncomfortable or nervous. His voice is clear and he is easy to understand. He also uses a lot of hand gestures which helps the audience feel more engaged in his speech.

reading response partner: Kate

Today I was paired with Kate and I really liked her response. She took a deeper look into the text and talked about how the author must have been feeling throughout his life. She also talks about how the message is how you shouldn’t feel shame for something you can’t control which I thought was a really good take away from the story. I want to look deeper into the texts that a read so in the future I hope to be able to do the same thing Kate has done with her response.

 

Significant historical event:

Event: Brown v. Board of Education

I decided to choose the Brown v. Board of Education trial as my historical event. I chose this event because I think it really did make an impact on the black community and helped us get to where we are today. If you are not familiar with this case it was the supreme court case that allowed black children and white children to go to school together. Before this black and white children were segregated at school and black children could be denied admittance to a school because of their race. The court ruled that separate but equal was not equal.

I chose this event because it made a big impact on the black community in the United States. I think that especially today with the resurgence of BLM in the public eye it is important to see that we have come a long way since 1954, but we can’t stop now. Children growing up today don’t even really notice race. They just have friends and they are just people, it does not matter the color of their skin. I am very thankful to live in a time when children of different races can go to school together and that is all because of this court case.

Today I looked at Aaliyah’s post and I really liked it. We used the same example from the textbook but looked at it in two different ways. For me, I looked at the picture and said it was an example of what could happen when you don’t think about who your audience will be and she looked at it and talked about a rhetorical situation. We also looked at different things from the Forbes article. She looked at what the article said about vagueness and I looked at what it said about understanding both sides of the argument you are presenting. I really liked how Aaliyah looked at many different aspects in the Forbes article and compared it to her own work and how this information will help her better her own writing.

Amani was in my group today and we both wrote about similar things for the response today. We both talked about how impactful some types of arguments can be and how the presenters of those arguments were effective. One thing that we did differently was that Amani wrote about examples from the book and I used a real-life example that I thought of and related it back to the textbook examples. I really enjoyed how Amani was able to use the examples from the book because it helped me to better understand them.