Topic: What are your dreams for yourself, your family, the world or society, or your future? Use the framework and phrase “I have a dream” to introduce new ideas in your speech. A way to add interest and variety to your speech is to use some of the elements learned about in this unit, such as metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, and imagery. Like King’s speech, your speech should sound as if you really believe in what you’re saying, and you want your listeners to believe in it, too! Avoid using phrases like I think, I believe, in my opinion, and it seems to me in your speech.

Sample speech excerpt:

"I have a dream that I will be the first person in my family to attend college. My whole life, I watched my parents work hard and struggle to provide a good life for my brothers and me. I have a dream that I will be able to go to college and earn a degree so that I can earn a good job. I have a dream that I can take care of them for a change since they have sacrificed so much to make sure I have a good life.

1. in creon’s first words to the chorus, what are the “storms” that threatened to destroy the ship of state?   polynices’ invation of the city with foreign armies was the “storms” eteocles and polynices decided to switch the crown every year, but after eteocles’ first year decided not to share it with polynices. polynices joined forces with foreign armies to invade the city and tried to take the crown from his brother, where he and eteocles killed each other   2. examine creon’s opening speech. what are his concerns? how does he feel about the city and its citizens? what are his motivations for banning the burial of polyneices? what would drive creon to place the concerns of the collective citizens over those of his family?   in creon’s opening speech, his concerns are to count on his citizens to rule. in addition, he wanted to give a clear message by not giving a proper burial to polyneices, if creon gave a proper burial to polyneices his people would think that he was an allied to the foreign forces that invaded the city and threatened the peace of his people.   creon placed the concerns of the collective citizens because he has no use for those who put individual concerns over the needs of his people 3. pay attention to creon’s speech at the beginning of the scene. what does creon think someone’s first loyalty should be and what comes second? do you think he is correct under some conditions? do you think he is wrong in some conditions? explain those conditions. creon thinks someone’s first loyalty should be with the concerns of the collective citizens and second comes our individual wants. i think he is correct because true loyalty takes place in the benefits of many not of a few.   4. what news is the sentry reluctant to deliver?   the sentry is reluctant to say that polyneices had a burial. 5. who does the chorus suggest might have done this?   the chorus suggests that the gods have done that 6. what is creon’s reaction and who does creon think is responsible? creon reacted abruptly and thinks it was a man who bribed his guard to bury polyneices

Transition words are words like first, furthermore, besides, for instance, secondly, as a result using words like those should you write paragraphs showing time. you can start with first and then end with lastly or as a result

1.) frame story2.)narrative interruption  3.)internal rhyme