SPACECAT - JFK moon speech

Who is the Speaker of the moon speech?

• President Nixon

• President Lincoln

• President Kennedy

• President Bush

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What is the purpose for the speech?

• The president wants to convince the nation that we should go to the moon.

• The president wants to explain to the world that USA is the best.

• The president thinks space exploration is a bad idea.

• The president wants to persuade the country to go to Mars, instead.

Who is the audience?

• Russia

• Students & staff at Rice University & the American people who watch on TV

• University of Texas students and staff

• the United Nations

What is the context? (time/place, happening in the world)

• During the Cold War, JFK wanted the US to lead the way in space exploration.

• There was competition between the USA and Russia

• The country was still having a Civil Rights movement.

• All of the above.

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Exigency - What sparked JFK to deliver this speech when he did?

• JFK loved space ever since he was little, and he knew that the only way we would go there is if he threw a fit.

• Space was the latest theater for battling the Cold War and provided an opportunity for the United States to promote leadership and demonstrate the technological advances of a free and democratic society. In order to do that, the United States needed to reach the Moon before the Soviet Union.

• JFK chose to deliver this speech at this time because he thought Putin would see it.

• The astronauts begged JFK to talk to the nation from Rice University.

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Choices

What are the moves of the author? (style, structure, literary devices)

This excerpt is an example of which device?

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

• simile

• rhetorical question

• repetition

• metaphor

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Appeals (ethos, logos, pathos)

Which appeal is JFK using in this excerpt?

“But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour.”

• ethos

• logos

• pathos

• simile

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Tone

What is the author's attitude toward the subject?

• furious

• melancholy

• peaceful

• inspiring

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What would be a good thesis statement for a rhetorical analysis essay over the moon speech?

• In JFK's famous moon speech, he uses rhetorical devices such as ethos, logos, and pathos to convince the nation that the United States needs to be the first country to go to the moon.

• JFK gave a speech about going to the moon because he wanted to do that.

• I liked JFK's speech about going to the moon.

• JFK wanted to go to the moon since he was a little boy.

Our class will be doing a rhetorical analysis over a presidential speech in which unit?

• Unit 8

• Unit 10

• Unit 7

• Unit 9

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