1. Class 20
EWRT 1A

2. AGENDA
• Essay #4 was due before class
today.
• Introduction to Essay #5
• Martin Luther King’s “I Have A
Dream” Speech.
• Monroe’s Motivated Sequence

3. Essay #5: Proposing a Solution
• Assignment: 100 points: Write a speech
400-500 words in length (3-4 minutes).
• Prompt: Write a speech (based on essay
#4) proposing a solution to a well-
defined problem faced by a community
or group to which you may belong.
• Address your proposal to your audience:
one or more members of the group, its
leadership, or to outsiders who may be
able to contribute to solving the
problem.
• Present your speech to the class to
convince them that your ideas are
correct.

4. • You may give your presentation as a formal
speech; in other words, you may read or
recite your speech in front of the class.
• You may record a video, put up the video on
YouTube, and show it during class.
• You may suggest another form.
Delivering Your Speech

5. MartinLutherKingJr. hasnowbeendeadlonger
thanhelived.Butwhatanextraordinarylifeitwas.
• At 33, he was pressing the case of civil rights with President
John Kennedy. At 34, he galvanized the nation with his "I Have
a Dream" speech. At 35, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. At 39,
he was assassinated, but he left a legacy of hope and
inspiration that continues today.
• King's most famous speech, "I Have a Dream," was delivered
in 1963 at the March on Washington, one of the largest
political rallies for human rights in United States history; it
called for civil and economic rights for African Americans.

6. “I Have a Dream”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs#at=508

7. The Problem
• What is the
problem that
King identifies
for his listeners?

8. The Problem
• “But one hundred years later, we must face
the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.
One hundred years later, the life of the Negro
is still sadly crippled by the manacles of
segregation and the chains of discrimination.
One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a
lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast
ocean of material prosperity. One hundred
years later, the Negro is still languishing in
the corners of American society and finds
himself an exile in his own land.”

9. The Solution
• What is his solution? Can you find his
thesis here?

10. The Solution
• His thesis (or purpose) statement is that now is the time for
equality:
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of
segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to
open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the
time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the
solid rock of brotherhood.

11. King’s Strategies
• King uses a variety of strategies in his speech:
• Establishment of Authority
• Logic and reasoning
• Appeal to Emotions
• Through rhetorical strategies
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Allusion
• But he also uses an organizational strategy that works to
captivate the audience.

12. King followed Monroe’s Motivated Sequence:
A Method in Five Steps!
The five steps of the Monroe
motivated sequence:
1. attention
2. need
3. satisfaction
4. visualization
5. action

13. ORGANIZE YOUR SPEECH
GET OUT YOUR
ESSAY #4

14. Side by Side
Essay Outline
I. Presentation of the problem
A. Its existence
B. Its seriousness
C. Its causes
II. Consequences of failing to solve the problem
III. Description of the proposed solution
IV. List of steps for implementing the solution
V. Reasons and support for the solution
A. Acknowledgment of objections
B. Accommodation or refutation of objections
VI. Consideration of alternative solutions and their
disadvantages
VII. Restatement of the proposed solution and its
advantages
VII. End with an inspiring call to action.
Speech Outline
I. In the attention step, speakers
call attention to the situation.
(The Problem)
II. For the need step, speakers
describe the difficulty, trouble,
distress, crisis, emergency, or
urgency. (Its Seriousness)
III. In the satisfaction step, speakers
tell listeners how to satisfy the
need they establish. (The
Solution)
IV. For visualization, speakers offer
listeners a vision of what life can
be once their solution (offered in
the satisfaction step) is adopted.
(The Promise)
V. The final stage is the action step
when speakers offer listeners a
specific course of action to follow.
(Call to Action: Conclusion)

15. Homework
• Begin to organize your essay into the five
steps of the Monroe motivated sequence.
• Post 19: Create an outline of your speech and
post it
• Eliminate sections of your essay that will be
cumbersome or unnecessary in your speech.
• Condense sections that are too long
• Simplify sections that are difficult to listen to.
• Bring a clean copy of essay #4, or bring it on your
device.