Today is the day I think we have had the greatest privilege of learning literature. This is because through literature, have I become closer to great human beings. Personally, reading and listening to speeches given by great individual is beyond inspiring. There could be no word yet to describe this feeling but it’s simply superb. Among the speakers were Queen Elizabeth I, John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Indira Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Ronald Reagan, Earl of Spencer and also Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.
Our group was assigned to work on the speech by Queen Elizabeth I. Personally; I was disappointed to get that particular text. Of all those persons that I admire, I end up doing some one that I’m not interested at all. So you could imagine how the reading session would have been. During the discussions, I notice that my group members were also in the same boat as me. Thus, we stopped Miss Dzeelfa during her walks around the class (her supervision sessions) and asked her about the background of the speech. Miss Dzeelfa gave us a somewhat long explanation and we began to relate to the story much better. We successfully came up with explication of the speech in terms of language and purpose plus creative while- and post-reading activities. Not bad… I actual began to admire the Queen as a leader. I believe that using rhetoric and speech by famous people is a great classroom activity but it should be done with proper guidance in order to avoid misinterpretations.
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