Public Speaking

Public Speaking is designed to help students improve their overall verbal communication skills. It will also give them experience speaking in front of a group. Students will create their own presentations and present them in class.  The class will give students some helpful ideas and tips on giving speeches, presentations and improving their general communication skills.

Students will:

• Develop interpersonal and intrapersonal communication skills and promote self-awareness.
• Promote self-confidence in speech making by using visual aids and objects.
• Develop persuasive speaking skills.
• Gain experience in writing and delivering a presenter’s introduction and an acceptance speech.
• Develop good phone etiquette.
• Develop the ability to make choices through reasoning.
• Gain experience experience using impromptu speech delivery.
• Gain experience using the memorized method of speech delivery.
• Promote good storytelling techniques through a personal experience speech.
• Develop the ability to create expressive body movement through pantomime.
• Work together with others to create a story.
• Encourage creative writing skills through the writing of a monologue.
• Use and development of quotations within a speech.
• Promote the the use of research in speech writing.
• Promote speaking without prior preparation through impromptu speaking.
• Develop reading skills through oral interpretation.
• Develop good performance and articulation skills.

Public Speaking

 

Anchor Standard RL.CCR.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

Grade Level Standard RL.8.1 Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Anchor Standard RL.CCR.2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

Grade Level Standard RL.8.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.

Grade Level Standard RL.8.3 Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.

Craft and Structure

Anchor Standard RI.CCR.3 Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

	Grade Level Standard RL.8.6 Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.
	Grade Level Standard W.8.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
	W.8.3.b Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, and reflection, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
		Grade Level Standard W.8.5 With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
		Anchor Standard W.CCR.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.

 

Grade Level Standard W.8.7 Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.

Grade Level Standard W.8.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.

Anchor Standard SL.CCR.1 Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

 

Anchor Standard RL.CCR.6 Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.

Grade Level Standard RI.8.8 Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.

Anchor Standard SL.CCR.3 Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.