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Follow the Leader
aCTIvITy 3.21
Learning Targets
• Analyzeaspeechtoidentifyhowthespeakershowshimselftobeaworldleader.
• Draw on information learned during the unit to identify a subject for a biographical presentation, and generate potential research questions.
Preview
In this activity, you will read a speech by Nelson Mandela and think about how the author reveals himself through his own words.
Setting a Purpose for reading
• As you read the speech, underline words and phrases that reveal what Mandela will do in the future to help all people.
• Circle unknown words and phrases. Try to determine the meaning of the words by using context clues, word parts, or a dictionary.
• Place an asterisk next to words and phrases that indicate Mandela’s emotions, values, or personality traits.
Excerpt from Nelson Mandela’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
1 We do not believe that this Nobel Peace Prize is intended as a commendation for matters that have happened and passed.
2 We hear the voices which say that it is an appeal from all those, throughout the universe, who sought an end to the system of apartheid.
3 We understand their call, that we devote what remains of our lives to the use of our country’s unique and painful experience to demonstrate, in practice, that the normal condition for human existence is democracy, justice, peace, non-racism, non-sexism, prosperity for everybody, a healthy environment and equality and solidarity among the peoples.
4 Moved by that appeal and inspired by the eminence you have thrust upon us, we undertake that we too will do what we can to contribute to the renewal of our world so that none should, in future, be described as the “wretched of the earth”.
5 Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates.
6 Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war.
7 Let the efforts of us all, prove that he was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.
8 Let a new age dawn!
my Notes
Speech
Unit 3 • Choices and Consequences 241
LearNING STraTeGIeS:
Graphic Organizer, Outlining, Visualizing
commendation: praise; endorsement
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