Honor Code Level Three

Revolution Unit: Speeches Honor Code Level Three Purposes: The purposes of this assignment are to expose you to a new idea related to revolution, strengthen your research skills as you connect that idea to one of the essential questions, and construct an argument (using ethos, logos, and pathos) that you will deliver in a persuasive speech to the class.

Essential Questions to consider for this assignment: It is recommended that you focus on only ONE essential question with regard to your chosen topic.  What are the responsibilities of government?  When is rebellion against authority justified?  What is a successful revolution?  What is justice?  What impact does revolution have on social, political, and economic justice in the lives of the people affected by the revolution?

Tasks:  Select a topic from the categories below.  Formulate a research question to examine, utilizing the ideas in one of the above essential questions. (Example: Were the socialists justified in their rebellion against Czar Nicholas II and the Russian monarchy?)  Create a thesis related to one of the essential questions (above). (Example: It is undeniable that the Russian socialists, both Mensheviks and Bolsheviks, were justified in their revolt against Czar Nicholas II due to his appalling decisions regarding finance and World War One.)  Conduct research and select at least four sources, one of which must be a primary source.  Write an annotated bibliography to determine how helpful your sources are.  Construct an argument in a persuasive speech, 5-7 minutes long, to convince your audience of your thesis utilizing ethos, pathos, and logos.  Deliver your speech to the class, using note cards as a tool to guide you (in other words, you may not simply get up there and read your speech!).  Submit your speech (typed, double-spaced, in 12-point, Times New Roman font) along with a Works Cited page. Everything must be submitted at once.

Topics:

Option 1- Revolutions around the world o India (early 1900s) o Colombia (early 1800s) o Cuba (1959) o Iran (1979) o Congo (1960) o French Revolution (late 1700s) o Mau Mau revolution in Kenya (1950s) o Haiti (1798-1804) o Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

Option 2- People o Ahmed Ben Bella o Guiseppe Garibaldi o Olga Benário Prestes o Arminius o Hugo Chavez o Pancho Villa o Bhagat Singh o Ho Chi Minh o Patrice Lumumba o Camilo Cienfuegos o James Connolly o Rosa Luxemburg o Carlos Lamarca o José de San Martín o Simón Bolívar o Carlos Marighella o Leon Trotsky o Soekarno o Che Guevara o Luis Carlos Prestes o Spartacus o Deng Xiaoping o Manuel Marulanda o Subcomandante Marcos o Dilma Rousseff o Mao Zedong o Sun Yat-sen o Eleftherios Venizelos o Maximilien Robespierre o Tupac Amaru Shakur o Emeka Ojukwu o Michael Collins o Thomas Sankara o Emiliano Zapata o Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullāh o Toussaint Louverture o Enver Hoxha o Mustafa Kemal Atatürk o Vasil Levski o Fernando Gabeira o Mohammad Hatta o Velu Pillai Prabakaran o Fidel Castro o Vercingetorix o George Gordon Byron o Vladimir Lenin o Vladimir Herzog

Option 3- Methods used in Revolutions o Nonviolent revolution o Nonviolent resistance o Tax resistance o Boycotts o Samizdat o Guerrilla warfare o Coup o Civil War o Civil Disobedience o Revolutionary terror

Option 4- Communist Manifesto o Read the Communist Manifesto and propose how the ideas in it could be used to solve a modern situation or instigate a modern revolution somewhere in the world. (Communist Manifesto would be one of your sources.) o Read the Communist Manifesto and persuade your audience how/why a specific revolution did/did not live up to the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. o Read the Communist Manifesto and create an argument as to why it will not work. Your argument must be evidence-based. ***If you choose the Communist Manifesto option, the CM will be one of your sources. See Mrs. Hanson for a copy of it.

Timeline for this assignment:

Tue., Feb. 9 Assign speech. Thu.& Fri, Feb. 10 & 11 Topic selection and approval; computer lab. Mon., Feb. 22 Topic approval for absent students. Tue., Feb. 23 Research day; computer lab. Wed., Feb. 24 Lesson on how to write an Annotated Bibliography. Thu., Feb. 25 Research day; computer lab. Tue., Mar. 2 Annotated Bibliography due (at least four sources). Wed., Mar. 3 Lesson on how to create an outline; outline work time. Fri., Mar. 5 Outline due. Partnered peer edits. Mon., Mar. 8 Speech draft due. Small-group practice. Edit speech. Tue., Mar. 9 Final speech & Works Cited page due. Speeches given in class. Wed., Mar. 10 Finish speeches in class. Week of Mar. 15 Make-up speeches in front of entire class.

Grading

 Annotated Bibliography- 10 points in Writing (Last day for late submission is Tue., Mar. 9 at 3:35)  Outline- 10 points in Homework (Last day for late submission is Mon., Mar. 8 at beginning of class)  Speech draft- 10 points in Homework (this is an all-or-nothing; late drafts not accepted.)  Final speech & Works Cited page- 50 points total in Conceptual Understanding/Writing

**You will receive rubrics the week of February 22. Go to www.mshanson.pbworks.com and click on the “Speech assignment” link to read more about possible topics.