Teaching Speaking

One aspect of teaching Language Arts is teaching speech writing and rhetoric skills. When you're doing that, why not have your students learn from the best? This site has the audio to 100 of the most famous and popular speeches in American history, including Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, and JFK's Cuban Missle Crisis Address. Most speeches include the audio for the full speech- you can play these in your classroom to teach writing to elicit emotion, pace, inflection, and overall how to deliver a powerful speech. This can be a great way to merge history and language arts curriculum as well.