"The Pleasure of Books" W.L. Phelps

What was the purpose of the speech?

• To sell books.

• To set up a public library.

• To enjoy and appreciate reading.

• To ban books.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

From the background provided, who was the intended audience?

• The leaders of Germany in 1933.

• Families who would be involved with WWII.

• School students in the 1920s.

• President Roosevelt in 1933.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.8.6

From the background information, what war was about to start when the speech was given?

• World War I.

• World War II.

• The Korean War

• The Civil War

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What form of media was used for this speech?

• Televised broadcast.

• Newspaper report.

• Radio broadcast.

• Internet.

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

According to the background information, when was William born?

• 1965

• 1925

• 1865

• 1905

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

(Review) How does the tone of the speech come across to the audience?

• Motivational, influential, inspiring, and encouraging

• Harsh, demanding, demeaning, and degrading

• clever, witty, humorous

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What led Phelps to give this speech?

• A celebration of the opening of a new library in his town.

• The start of the new German government and the promise of a better world.

• German Nazis gathering books to supplement the books students had in their school libraries.

• German Nazis and German students held an event to burn books that had non-German ideas.

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

Of the following choices, what rhetorical device did Phelps not use in his speech?

• figurative language

• Hypophora

• compare and contrast

• repetition

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The following excerpt highlights what type of rhetorical device?

"There are of course no friends like living, breathing, corporeal men and women; my devotion to reading has never made me a recluse. How could it? Books are of the people, by the people, for the people."

• Repetition

• Specific Detail

• Hypophora

• Unusual sentence structure

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is Phelps' main argument?

• People should have the ability to own and enjoy their own books.

• People can buy and sell books whenever they want.

• The government should dictate the books people can read.

• It's okay to burn and destroy books to preserve history.