Reading and Rhetoric

Read Barack Obamaπs Philadelphia Speech and answer the fo0llowing questions.

I. Preparation: Short answer

A. From this speech, what can you say about the speaker?

B. What Audience do you suppose he is speaking to?

C. What is the message he is trying to send to that audience?

II. Argument

A. Summarize the broad points of Obamaπs argument.

B. Pick three sentences from the entire speech. Construct a chain of why for each passage.

C. For each of the three chains, connect an outside work to each.