Pres.George Bush’s 9/11 Address Google Form

This short and accessible speech makes a good lesson for blending learning. Our students in our classrooms today were all born after 2001, and they are pretty detached from this historic event that so deeply affected our society. There are 9 Qs worth 11 points. The

last Qasks about the main idea of the speech, it’s worth 3 points. some Qs are T/F and some are MC Qs. Questions use the following rhetorical devices in the Q or as distractor answers ethos/logos/pathos, simile, metaphor, figurative language, analogies, imagery, speaker, point of view, parallelism/ parallel structure, occasion, repetition, and relevance.
I would suggest that teachers show a You Tube Clip of the delivery of this speech. I also have a lesson that uses the 9/11 experience to write a narrative. The assignment asks students to interview someone about their memories and then to retell their story. Itsashort assignment, but it challenges students to write InterviewQs, conduct and interview, paraphrase ideas and compose them in 3rd person, to work on organizing ideas logically, and to document a source. This source uses does not trivialize the event nor does it use diction that would marginalize people of diverse ethic or racial backgrounds. It does reprint Bush‘s speech.