english_9_lm_draft

Answer the following questions about President Obama’s address.
1. What is the issue presented in the speech?
2. Are the terms used clearly defined and applied throughout the message?
3. Is the thesis (the point to be made) clearly and directly stated? What is the thesis
statement?
4. Are facts provided as evidence? If so, identify them.
5. Is the reasoning sound and logical? (Does one point follow from another?)
6. What persuasive devices or propaganda techniques does the author use
(examples: appeal
DRAFT
to emotions, name-calling, appeal to authority)?
7. Does the author succeed in persuading you to accept his argument?
April
8. Is there an issue similar to
10,
the one presented here
2014
in the Philippines? Explain
your answer?
9. How is this article related with the Wall Street Crash and Great Depression of the
1930’s in America?
Task 7. Validate Info…
Statements below are taken from President Obama’s “There Were No
Winners…” address. Identify which among the statements contain factual information
(statements that can be verified or proven to be true or false) or subjective content
(involves judgment, feeling, opinion, intuition, or emotion rather than factual
information). Write F for factual and S for subjective.
_________ 1. There were no winners in this government shutdown.
__________ 2. At a time when our economy needs more growth and more jobs, the
manufactured crises of these last few weeks actually harmed jobs and growth.
__________ 3. The way business is done in Washington has to change.
Grade 7 English Learning Package 9