Response to Malcolm X speech

1.     Who is speaking?

Malcolm X

2.     Why was/is the speech important to society

Malcolm was an important leader at the time and had influence of a lot of people

3.     Why do you feel it is important or interesting

It is an important part of history because it shows us how the country used to be and how many different opinions and approaches there were to civil rights

4.     What is the emotion, mood, tone, personality, feeling of the speech

Serious, aggressive, angry, concerned

5.     What is intonation, emphasis, what is loud, stressed, or soft. Where are there pauses

Unity, black, white, criminal- emphasis expectable problems, community-stressed potential, Roaring- loud

There are pauses after ” they can join us but they can help us,

                                           Concerning nonviolence,

6.     What do you FEEL should be loud or soft, long pauses or rushed?

7.     Problems he states should be rushed, and pauses after “they can help us but they can’t join us” and after it is criminal…

      Defend should be loud as well as moral, and my reasons, shocked awake, passive should be soft

8.     Is there a call to action? When listening to it what are key/emphasized words

For “Whites to be shocked awake to their senses”

9.     How does it make you feel

Sadden at the past but happy for the progress we have made

10. How do you imagine that the audience felt

Either offended or empowered

11. Could there by another interpretation of the speech

Depending on the race of who was listening

12. Write/find a short bio of the person giving the speech

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother, Louise Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the family's eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother, Louise Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the family's eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey