Answer the following text-dependent questions. These questions come from page 72 in your Springboard textbook. Refer back to the speech by Obama (pages 68-72) to answer the questions. 1. Key Ideas and Details: The president begins his speech with statements about the audience’s feelings and then a story about his own childhood. Why does he begin his speech in this way?

To help the audience understand he cares about them and their opinions. The story about his childhood is to let the audience know he is a person who has struggled, and overcame them and became someone more.

2. Key Ideas and Details: What is the main idea of this speech?

3. Craft and Structure: What rhetorical appeal (logos, ethos, or pathos) is represented by the hypothetical situations in paragraph 9?

4. Craft and Structure: What type of appeal is most prominent in paragraphs 13-16? Why might the speaker choose to include his own personal story here?

5. Craft and Structure: In paragraph 17, what is the effect of the president’s repeated use of the word maybe?

6. Craft and Structure: In paragraphs 18-24, what does the president do to overcome potential resistance by his audience? Does this approach rely more on logos or pathos? Explain.

7. Craft and Structure: What is the purpose of the questions the president asks in paragraph 34?

8. Working from the text:
Review the rhetorical appeals definitions at the beginning of the activity. Find one example of each appeal from President Obama’s speech and write the quote next to the appropriate rhetorical appeal.

Logos: (Text)

Pathos: (Audience)

Ethos: (Speaker)