This document outlines an assignment to rewrite essay #4 into a speech using Monroe's motivated sequence structure. Students are instructed to shorten the essay into a 4-7 minute speech addressing a problem and proposed solution. The speech should follow the 5 steps of Monroe's sequence: get attention, establish need, propose satisfaction/solution, provide a vision, and call to action. Students will perform the speech live and submit a written version.

1. EWRT 1A

3.  (600 - 800 words) 100 pts. (4-7 minutes)
 Assignment: Write a speech 600-800 words in length (four to
seven minutes of presentation).
 Prompt: Write a speech (based on essay #4) proposing a
solution to a well-defined problem faced by a community or
group to which you may belong. Alternatively, you may
address a well-defined problem faced by one of the districts or
communities in The Hunger Games. Address your proposal to
your audience: one or more members of the group, its
leadership, or to outsiders who may be able to contribute to
solving the problem. Present your speech to the class to
convince them that your ideas are correct.

4.  You will turn in a formal written version of your speech (MLA style).
 You will perform your speech in class.
 Speech Form:
 You may give your presentation as a formal speech; in other words, you
may read in front of the class.
 You may video yourself, put up the video on YouTube and then show it
during class.
 You may combine the possibilities by, for example, playing a video in the
background as you talk to the class.
 You may engage others in your presentation as long as they have a clear
role in what you are doing.
 You may suggest another form.
 Possible structures for your presentation:
 You may act as an attorney arguing in court.
 You may persuade in part through a skit and then explain what the skit
shows.
 You make an infomercial.
 You may pretend that you are a guest on a television talk show.
 You may use your original format if you clear it with me beforehand.

5. King followed Monroe‟s motivated sequence:
A Method in Five Steps!
 The five steps of the Monroe motivated
sequence
 attention
 need
 satisfaction
 visualization
 action

6.  Inthe attention step, speakers call attention to
the situation. King, speaking from the steps of
the Lincoln Memorial, calls attention to Lincoln‟s
signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the
situation of the Negro today (“One hundred
years later, the Negro still is not free.”), and the
fact that the words of the Constitution and
Declaration of Independence granting all people
the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness have not been fulfilled.

7.  For the need step, speakers describe the difficulty,
trouble, distress, crisis, emergency, or urgency. King
says, “Instead of honoring this sacred obligation [what
the Constitution and Declaration of Independence
promise], America has given the Negro people a bad
check, a check that has come back marked
„insufficient funds.‟” And why have they come to
Washington, D.C.? — to “remind America of the fierce
urgency of now.”

8.  In the satisfaction step, speakers tell listeners
how to satisfy the need they establish. King
says, “We must make the pledge that we shall
always march ahead.” To march ahead, he
said, “We can never be satisfied.” Then he tells
listeners to go back home knowing their
situation can and will be changed.

9.  For visualization, speakers
offer listeners a vision of
what life can be once their
solution (offered in the
satisfaction step) is
adopted. This is where King
offers listeners his dream: “I
have a dream” offered
along with five different
descriptions of what life can
and will be like in Georgia,
Mississippi, Alabama, in
communities, and around
the world.

10. The final stage is the
action step when
speakers offer listeners a
specific course of action
to follow. King‟s action
step occurs when he asks
his audience to “Let
freedom ring,” and he
uses the phrase at the
end of the speech
focusing on eight states
symbolizing the whole
nation.

11. GET OUT
YOUR ESSAY
#4

12. ESSAY OUTLINE SPEECH OUTLINE
I. Presentation of the problem I. In the attention step, speakers call
A. Its existence attention to the situation. (The
Problem)
B. Its seriousness II. For the need step, speakers describe
C. Its causes the difficulty, trouble, distress, crisis,
II. Consequences of failing to solve the emergency, or urgency. (Its
problem Seriousness)
III. Description of the proposed solution III. In the satisfaction step, speakers tell
IV. List of steps for implementing the solution listeners how to satisfy the need they
V. Reasons and support for the solution establish. (The Solution)
IV. For visualization, speakers offer
A. Acknowledgment of objections listeners a vision of what life can be
B. Accommodation or refutation of once their solution (offered in the
objections satisfaction step) is adopted. (The
VI. Consideration of alternative solutions and Promise)
their disadvantages V. The final stage is the action step
VII. Restatement of the proposed solution when speakers offer listeners a
and its advantages specific course of action to follow.
(Call to Action: Conclusion)

13.  Post # 47 Rearrange your essay #4 into a
draft of your speech using Monroe‟s
motivated sequence. Your speech should
be shorter. Remember to save your essay
format.
 Be prepared to discuss King‟s rhetorical
strategies: (Bring your Post # 46 to class)
 Bring your speech to class
 Study Vocab. Test #5 tomorrow.