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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Eisenhower Doctrine on the Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains the actual text to the Eisenhower Doctrine on the Middle East, Eisenhower's speech to Congress on January 5, 1957.
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Teaching American History

Teaching American History: Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Forgotten Man

For Students 9th - 10th
Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers a campaign speech directly to the heart of the lower economic classes of the United States. His goal is to win their votes by offering solution to rescue them from their financial distres as the nation...
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Eisenhower Doctrine 1957

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides the actual text to the Eisenhower Doctrine, a speech given by President Eisenhower to Congress on the situation in the Middle East.
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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

Jfk Presidential Library and Museum: The Cold War in Berlin

For Students 9th - 10th
Article explores the division of Germany and Berlin into two zones, East and West, and delves into President Kennedy's relationship with the Soviets during the Cold War. On June 26, 1963, President Kennedy delivered an explosive speech...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Adapting to Your Audience

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This activity focuses on adapting your speech to your audience including analyzing your audience using direct observation, interviews, surveys, or Likert rating scales and then apply knowledge about the audience to adjust the message...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Variations in Language

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the use of variation in language when preparing a speech including directness, subjectivity and objectivity, abstraction, and accurate, reliable, unbiased, credible, and current sources.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Persuasion Rubric

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A printable four-point rubric to use when assessing a persuasive piece with a focus on organization, a goal or thesis, reasons/support, audience, word choice, visuals/delivery, and grammar/usage/mechanics. Directions on how to use this...
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Eisenhower Doctrine

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive overview details the Eisenhower Doctrine, a 1957 speech made by President Dwight Eisenhower in response to the Suez Crisis.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Gerald R. Ford: Oath of the u.s. Presidency Address

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the swearing in of Gelald R. Ford as President of the United States on August 9, 1974, after President Nixon resigned. After taking the oath of office, Ford speaks to the country. Offered in mp3 audio and in text.
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Von Konfoderativen Strukturen Zu Einer Foderation

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains the speech by Helmut Kohl given in November 1989 where he outlines the goals and objectives for the cooperation with East Germany, and Europe.
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Other

German Propoganda: Party and Revolutionary Young Guard Firmly Allied

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents speeches by Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker. It also details his words to the congresses of the Free German Youth between 1985 and 1989.

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