"I Have A Dream" Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
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I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lesson Plans by Elizabeth Pedro and Kristy Littlehale
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech is a powerful message to the African American community to be strong and persevere during a time of great inequality in the United States.
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Storyboard Description
I Have a Dream Ethos Pathos Logos activity will have students analyze how MLK's speech uses the rhetorical triangle!
Storyboard Text
- ETHOS
- “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.”
- PATHOS
- “Five score years ago a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree is a great beacon light of hope it millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But 100 years later the Negro still is not free.”
- “The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.”
- LOGOS
- Image Attributions:Freedom (https://www.flickr.com/photos/clearlyambiguous/23394485/) - Clearly Ambiguous - License: Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)THE DREAM (https://www.flickr.com/photos/centeroftheuniverse/4932830650/) - jrr_wired - License: Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
- King is connecting with his audience members not only as a fellow man of color, but as a parent of children whom he hopes will inherit a better world because of his actions in the Civil Rights movement now.
- King is reminding the crowd of the hope they all once had that freedom would come with the end of slavery; however, he reminds them that it's been 100 years and they are still not free in America. King points out the contrast between expectations and reality by highlighting the grave injustice that in 100 years, nothing has really been fixed.
- Despite the heightened emotions, King reminds the crowds that while white institutionalized racism is the enemy, they have many allies who realize the importance of their struggle, and they are standing with them against this injustice.
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