Friday, June 1, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Friday-Thursday, May 24-30, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Craft thesis and comment for OO. Thursday, May 24, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Continue prepping for debates. Revise! LD Prep Work Forms
Wednesday, May 23, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Continue prepping for debates. Revise! Tuesday, May 22, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Have all prep work in packet finished, esp. refutations and cross-x questions, along with final revisions of constructives. Debates begin tomorrow! Monday, May 21, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Finish revision of your second constructive for final review tomorrow. Use the given format (Whitman example), and label each section clearly. Friday, May 18, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Finish 2nd revision of your first constructive. Your second constructive is due, complete, on Monday. Use the given format (Whitman example), and label each section clearly. Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Finish 2nd revision of your first constructive. Your second constructive is due, complete, on Monday. Use the given format (Whitman example), and label each section clearly. Thursday, May 17, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Finish revising the first constructive draft. Begin the first draft of your second constructive. Use the given format (Whitman example), and label each section clearly. Tuesday, May 15, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Complete the first draft of one constructive. Use the given format (Whitman example), and label each section clearly. Monday, May 14, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Complete the full outline. You must have each contention fully supported with specific supporting details under each point. Friday, May 11, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Complete the full outline. You must have each contention fully supported with specific supporting details under each point. Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Complete the full outline. You must have each contention fully supported with specific supporting details under each point. Thursday, May 10, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Complete the above assignments. Wednesday, May 9, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Complete the above assignments. Tuesday, May 8, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Source and note cards. Monday, May 7, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Complete the day's assignments. Friday, May 4, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Lincoln-Douglas Debate preparation packet, note card template, source card template, and other important resources available on our L-D Debate Assignment folder on WCPSS Google Drive. (You'll need to log in to your WCPSS Google account to access it.)
Complete the day's assignments. Thursday, May 3, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Lincoln-Douglas Debate preparation packet, note card template, source card template, and other important resources available on our L-D Debate Assignment folder on WCPSS Google Drive. (You'll need to log in to your WCPSS Google account to access it.)
Homework Complete the day's assignments. Wednesday, May 2, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Study notes. Tuesday, May 1, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Complete assignment (#2 above). Monday, April 30, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Complete assignment (#3 above). Friday, April 27, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Begin mock L-D debate with collective flowing and analysis. Wednesday-Thursday, April 25-6, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Final preparations for mock L-D debate:
Tuesday & Wednesday, April 17-18, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Affirmative and negative teams:
Monday, April 16, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Thursday, April 12, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Wednesday, March 28, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Team presentation prep:
Tuesday, March 27, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Team presentation prep:
Monday, March 26, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Fill out an evaluation form for your own performance; reflect and write comments about your strengths and areas for improvement. Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Fill out an evaluation form for your own performance; reflect and write comments about your strengths and areas for improvement. Friday, March 23, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Fill out an evaluation form for your own performance; reflect and write comments about your strengths and areas for improvement. Wednesday & Thursday, March 21-2, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Practice! Dress rehearsals Thursday; performances on Friday! Tuesday, March 20, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Complete self-eval and annotate script as needed. Practice! Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Complete self-eval and annotate script as needed. Practice! Monday, March 19, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Annotate for gesturing and movement. Practice! Video taping tomorrow! Tuesday-Friday, March 13-16, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Revise and MEMORIZE intros.--due for assessment grade on Monday Monday, March 12, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Oral Interpretation
Make revisions to introductions. Friday, March 9, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Oral Interpretation
Complete all annotations and your introduction. Have them with you when you come to class on Monday! Thursday, March 8, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Oral Interpretation
Continue annotations. Tuesday & Wednesday, March 6-7, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Oral Interpretation
Continue to prepare selections. Monday, March 5, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Oral Interpretation
Continue to search for your literary works. Wednesday-Friday, 2/28-3/2Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Monday, February 26, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Friday, February 23, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Wednesday & Thursday, February 21-22, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Tuesday, February 20, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Monday, February 19, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Friday, February 16, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Thursday, February 15, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Complete revision of story and finish intro. and conclusion. Wednesday, February 14, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Pick your favorite line and flesh it out with concrete details to tell a little story. Tuesday, February 13, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Revise your story to add plenty of concrete details. Don't just tell your audience about your story, hand them the experience! Monday, February 12, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
1. Complete rough draft. 2. Study for QUIZ on plot development--tomorrow! Friday, February 9, 2018 (Early Release)Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Complete #4 (above) Thursday, February 8, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Identify your narrative hook (inciting incident). Tuesday-Wednesday, February 6-7, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Complete story prewriting questions for tomorrow. Monday, February 5, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Practice! Practice! Practice! (and SLOW DOWN!) Friday, February 2, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Detailed critiques on all story/joke deliveries. Focus on--
Thursday, February 1, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Wednesday, January 31, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Complete marking, and practice with vocal variation. Tuesday, January 30, 2018Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
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- Using your speech content template, build the body of your persuasive speech, point by point, considering the different organizations and Monroe's Motivation Sequence. The following sources will help:
- Persuasive speech and Monroe's Motivation Sequence
- Organizations for persuasive speeches (from yesterday's notes) - For each main point,
- Address opposing arguments--concede what you must (ethics!) and then turn to your points
- Include specific supporting details (incontrovertible proof!) & document each (lends ethos to your argument)
- Employ and identify the different rhetorical appeals you use.
- Avoid faulty reasoning/logical fallacies! - Craft Introduction and conclusion. Some helpful resources:
- "Effective Introductions and Powerful Conclusions"
- "Introductions & Conclusions"
- "How to End a Persuasive Speech"
- "Writing the Conclusion of a Speech"
- Complete entire essay for peer review tomorrow.
- Study notes (organizations for persuasive speeches). Written review tomorrow!
Monday, December 18, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Notes on organizations for persuasive speeches (Study them for tomorrow!)
- Teams: analyze organization of persuasive speeches in text (pp. 358 & 363)
- Determine organization/plan your mode of attack for your persuasive speech.
- Complete organization of argument.
- Study notes (organizations for persuasive speeches). Written review tomorrow!
Thursday & Friday, December 14-15, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Complete assignment.
- Persuasive topic choices & approval (cannot change topics after Friday without explicit teacher permission!)
- Fill out Persuasive Speech Outline, including thesis, main points, and main couterpoints and resistance you will need to address)
Complete assignment.
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Essential Question: What resistance techniques do I use in which situations? What resistance techniques have I faced when trying to persuade others?
Complete assignment.
Essential Question: What resistance techniques do I use in which situations? What resistance techniques have I faced when trying to persuade others?
- Go to the Changingminds.org site (http://changingminds.org/techniques/resisting/resisting.htm), read the different techniques, and then complete the following activities:
- Identify the top five persuasion resistance techniques you’ve recently used.
- Briefly describe the situation when someone used one of these resistance techniques against your attempts to persuade. - Teams: have each individual share responses; evaluate the accuracy of the technique identification.
Complete assignment.
Monday, December 11, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Complete assignment.
- Essential Question: How can I use persuasive techniques to move my audience, what resistance might I encounter from them, and how can I best address them? Read, take notes, watch the videos and answer the analytical questions at http://open.lib.umn.edu/communication/chapter/11-4-persuasive-strategies/
- "Kids and Cars: Bye-Bye Syndrome" (video clip 11.1--read to get to link on site!)
- “Getting Competent” questions, speech analysis (video and audio links on site) - Anwer "Exercises" questions in box at end of site.
Complete assignment.
Friday, December 8, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
none!
- Complete watching and analysis of rhetorical appeals and resistance in We Are Marshall.
- Essential Question: How can I use persuasive techniques to move my audience, what resistance might I encounter from them, and how can I best address them? Read, take notes, watch the video and answer the analytical questions at http://open.lib.umn.edu/communication/chapter/11-4-persuasive-strategies/
none!
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Staging and reading of Julius Caesar, act 3, scene 2 (3.1-2) (You all were awesome!)
- Analysis of rhetorical devices (repetition, scansion, metaphor, etc.)
- Analysis of logical fallacies/faulty reasoning (especially re: plebians)
- Analysis of rhetorical appeals (ethos, logos, pathos) in Brutus and Antony''s speeches.
- Annotate your script to identify every rhetorical appeal in both speeches (Remember that Antony's is longer and broken up, so following it all the way through.)
- Continue to review notes on logic and faulty reasoning (logical fallacies).
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Review for test, including
- Annotate your script to identify every rhetorical appeal in both speeches (Remember that Antony's is longer and broken up, so following it all the way through.)
- Continue to review notes on logic and faulty reasoning (logical fallacies).
Monday, December 4, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Staging and reading of Julius Caesar, act 3, scene 2 (3.1-2) (You all were awesome!)
- Analysis of rhetorical devices (repetition, scansion, metaphor, etc.)
- Analysis of logical fallacies/faulty reasoning (especially re: plebians)
- Analysis of rhetorical appeals (ethos, logos, pathos) in Brutus and Antony''s speeches.
- Annotate your script to identify every rhetorical appeal in both speeches (Remember that Antony's is longer and broken up, so following it all the way through.)
- Continue to review notes on logic and faulty reasoning (logical fallacies).
Friday, December 1, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Staging and reading of Julius Caesar, act 3, scene 2 (3.1-2) (You all were awesome!)
- Analysis of rhetorical devices (repetition, scansion, metaphor, etc.)
- Analysis of logical fallacies/faulty reasoning (especially re: plebians)
- Analysis of rhetorical appeals (ethos, logos, pathos) in Brutus and Antony''s speeches.
- Annotate your script to identify every rhetorical appeal in both speeches (Remember that Antony's is longer and broken up, so following it all the way through.)
- Continue to review notes on logic and faulty reasoning (logical fallacies).
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Homework
Continue to review notes on logic and faulty reasoning (logical fallacies).
- Finish team test review and analysis
- Set up rhetorical analysis study of Julius Caesar, act 3, scene 2 (3.1-2)
- basic story line
- intro. to major players: Marcus Brutus, Caius Cassius, Mark Antony, other senator-conspirators, and,oh, yeah, Julius Caesar (basically a prop on the stage floor now--but will become a strategic prop for Antony)
- the shanking, the bloodbath, and the parley before the funeral (3.1.80-230) (act.scene.line numbers)
Homework
Continue to review notes on logic and faulty reasoning (logical fallacies).
Wednesday, November 29 , 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Homework
Complete analysis of examples on test.
- Post mortem on assessment and a study in metacognition--understanding how we learn and techniques for consciously improving learning.
- Teams: test review and analysis
- (coming soon) Essential Question: How can I use persuasive techniques to move my audience, what resistance might I encounter from them, and how can I best address them? Read, take notes, watch the video and answer the analytical questions at http://open.lib.umn.edu/communication/chapter/11-4-persuasive-strategies/
Homework
Complete analysis of examples on test.
Tuesday, November 28 , 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Homework (none!)
- Take 2 peer 25-Q Reviews
- Formative Assessment: Syllogisms, Enthymems, and Faulty Reasoning
Homework (none!)
Monday, November 27 , 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Create an Original 25-Q Review on Syllogisms, Enthymemes, and Faulty Reasoning/Logical Fallacies. Presentation notes on Logical Fallacies available below. Be sure to use your own notes and examples on syllogisms and enthymemes.
Complete 25-Q Review and study notes! Test tomorrow on syllogisms, enthymemes, and logical fallacies.
Create an Original 25-Q Review on Syllogisms, Enthymemes, and Faulty Reasoning/Logical Fallacies. Presentation notes on Logical Fallacies available below. Be sure to use your own notes and examples on syllogisms and enthymemes.
- The Blind Bats
- Appeal to Emotion
- Ambiguity
- Bandwagon - Straw Man, Eli, and the Angry Kilts
- Non Sequitur
- Begging the Question
- Hasty Generalization - The Sharpshooters
- No True Scotsman
- Texas Sharpshooter
- Argument from Personal Incredulity - Team Cartesian Circlists
- Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
- Appeal to Authority
- Appeal to Ignorance - The Band Wagoneers
- Slippery Slope
- False Cause
- False Dilemma - The Gamblers' Fallacies
- Tu Quoque
- Strawman
- Ad Hominem - The Red Herrings
- Stacking the Deck
- Appeal to Authority
- Appeal to the People
Complete 25-Q Review and study notes! Test tomorrow on syllogisms, enthymemes, and logical fallacies.
Wednesday-Friday, November 22-24, 2017: (Break) Happy Thanksgiving!
Monday - Tuesday, November 20-21 , 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Team Presentations (see links to them above)
Team Presentations (see links to them above)
Friday, November 17, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Team Project: final polishing and rehearsing
- Begin teaching presentations: First up--The Blind Bats
- All other teams must take notes on each fallacy and their examples.
- The presenting team will then lead a discussion that checks examples for validity.
Monday-Thursday, November 14-16, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Individual preparation for team project.
- Team Project: Teaching Logical Fallacies
- Team-determined assignments
Individual preparation for team project.
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Individual preparation for team project.
- Team Project: Teaching Logical Fallacies
- Team-determined assignments
Individual preparation for team project.
Monday, November 13, 2017
Friday, November 10, 2017: Veteran's Day (observed)
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Individual preparation for team project.
- Review: Syllogism & Enthymeme
- Logical Fallacies Team Assignment:
- Team Roles and Descriptions: Synergy
- Team Protocols & Expectations
- Project Assignment & WBS
Individual preparation for team project.
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Honor a Veteran!
- Written review: Maslow's Hierachy of Needs and Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle
- Notes: Syllogism & Enthymeme
- Introduction to Logical Fallacies
Honor a Veteran!
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Study for quiz tomorrow on persuasion notes, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (and appealing to them), and the Rhetorical Triangle (ethos, logos, pathos)
- Notes: Rhetoric, Diction (Denotation & Connotation)
- Notes and examples: using ethos, pathos, logos
Study for quiz tomorrow on persuasion notes, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (and appealing to them), and the Rhetorical Triangle (ethos, logos, pathos)
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Notes: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and persuasion
- Notes: Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle
- Rhetorical Appeals
Monday, November 6, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Final informative speeches
- New teams setup
- Persuasion:
- Goals
- Responsibilities (ethics)
- Requirements & topic analysis
- Keep a running list of at least fIve instances today where someone is trying to persuade you (in the hallways, the classroom, lunch time, parents. media, etc.)
- Research possible topics for your persuasive speech, and bring a list of five with you tomorrow--five potential topics that you care about and that involve disagreement. You will ultimately choose one topic from this list for your 4-6 minute persuasive speech in two weeks.
Thursday, Friday, & Monday, October 26, 27, & 30, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Definition or Description speech presentations
- Individual critiques
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Speeches begin tomorrow!
- Review scripts with transitional devices highlighted (grade)
- Team peer reviews and critiques
Speeches begin tomorrow!
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- NOTES: Conclusions (text 276-8)
- Notes and chapter handout: Transitions
- Simple devices
- Paragraph hools
- Be able to answer any of the 12 questions at the end of the chapter (handout) on a written review tomorrow (on all notes from today).
- Revise speech to include transitional devices (especially paragraph hooks).
- FINAL DRAFT of speech due in writing tomorrow!
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- NOTES: Conclusions (text 276-8)
- Notes and chapter handout: Transitions
- Simple devices
- Paragraph hools
- Be able to answer any of the 12 questions at the end of the chapter (handout) on a written review tomorrow (on all notes from today).
- Revise speech to include transitional devices (especially paragraph hooks).
- FINAL DRAFT of speech due in writing tomorrow!
Monday, October 23, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Revise speech outline, writing out introduction and conclusion
- Complete writing out body of speech, as well
Friday, October 20, 2017 : Pre-ACT Testing, No class
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Written review (WR) on yesterday's notes:
- Constructive Criticism
- Effective Introductions - Speech Outline template
- Complete the outline for the body of your speech.
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Notes & discussion from text:
- Constructive Criticism
- Effective Introductions - Introduction construction
- Work on intro for definition speech.
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Definition speech essentials
- Notes: concrete and abstract language
- Definition sense poems exercise
- Fill a page with specific, concrete details to illustrate your definition. Consider a variety of approaches to take.
- How to construct a good introduction (by desconstructing a great example!)
- Work on body of definition speech.
Monday, October 16, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Definition speech essentials
- Notes: concrete and abstract language
- Definition sense poems exercise
- Fill a page with specific, concrete details to illustrate your definition. Consider a variety of approaches to take.
- How to construct a good introduction (by desconstructing a great example!)
- Work on body of definition speech.
Friday, October 13, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Last process speech & evaluation
- Definition and Description speeches--choose 2 potential topics
- Prewriting tips
- Definition topics and examples (scroll down to bottom for those links)
- More definition topics
- Description speeches
- Description speech techniques
- Great descriptive speech tips!
- Find your storytelliung jokes (2)!
Tuesday-Thursday, October 10-12, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Process speeches
- Evaluations
- Everyone else be ready to go tomorrow!
Monday, October 9, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Process speeches and
- Evaluations
- Strengths and weaknesses discussion
- Everyone else be ready to go tomorrow!
Friday, October 6, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Notes and video examples of process speech introductions
- Write individual introductions and conclusions for speech.
- Speeches begin on Monday!
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Written review: notes on prewriting (from yesterday)
- Gathering details for individual process speech.
- Complete all gathering and evaluating of details
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Written review: notes on Informational speaking (from yesterday)
- Notes: Social Ritual speeches
- Notes: Prewriting and the Process-Analysis speech
- Teams: complete and test process-analysis prewriting
- Study notes!
- Determine your own process-analysis topic for a speech
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Study notes!
- Last two oral Interpretation presentations
- Compile data from student evaluations
Study notes!
Monday, October 2, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Oral Interpretation presentations
- Evaluations
Thursday & Friday, September 28-29, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Oral Interpretation presentations
- Evaluations
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Oral Interpretation deliveries!
- Checked written critiques
- Oral Interpretation example for class critique
- Team critiques and coaching of each team member
- Practice! Practice! Practice!
Oral Interpretation deliveries!
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Check written critiques on video.
Team critiques for each member.
- Complete team oral interpretations
- Oral Interpretation Rubric
- Student eval sheets - Evaluatory comments
- Individual interpretation preparation
a. Check for introduction
b. Questions for marking script
c. Mark script
- Perform your oral interp. and film it. Check your time (1:30-2:30, not including introduction)
- Write a thorough critique of your performance. Use the oral interp. rubric for the different areas you need to evaluate.
Check written critiques on video.
Team critiques for each member.
Monday, September 25, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
Finish team poetry deliveries (4).
Prepare individual works with team feedback
- Teams: Combine introductory notes
- Practice purposefully
- Present!
- Oral Interpretation Rubric
- Student eval sheets
- Write introduction for your individual oral interpretation work/s.
Finish team poetry deliveries (4).
Prepare individual works with team feedback
Friday, September 22, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Individual analysis assignment check
- Teams coordinate analysis responses and mark for voice (volume, pitch, quality)
- Notes: Types and purposes of gestures
a. Descriptive
b. Emphatic
c. Suggestive
d. Prompting - Determine appropriate gestures to use and mark for body movement, facial expression, eye focus.
- Determine pacing and shifts and mark.
- Research poem and write a brief introduction to prepare your audience to understand more fully your presented works.
- Practice and critique within teams.
Thursday, September 21, 2017: Rosh Hashanah / Teacher Workday
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Preparation for team "Dreams" oral interpretations, reading and notes/discussion (431-445):
- Voice (volume, pitch, rate/pace, quality)
- Body: movement, facial expression, eye focus
- Cutting, ordering, and marking the script - Teams mark script for "Dreams"
- Teams present
- Individual poem assignments for each team to analyze and perform
- Complete analysis of given team poem, using the question sheet provided (link above).
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Check notes on oral interpretation piece/s.
- Partners share analysis of Speaker, Subject/story, Tone, and Theme, and read the pieces, giving feedback on using voice and pacing to communicate meaning.
- Reading and discussion (text, pgs. 411-414) on preparing for oral interp:
- analyzing language: diction, denotation, connotation
- analyzing style: imagery, figurative language, and syntax
- discussing strategies for reading rhyme effectively
- Finish analysis of piece/s and higlighting words and phrases you will need to communicate the speaker's tone and message for the audience to take away from it.
Monday, September 18, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Return teacher and peer recitation evaluations
- note top two strengths and top two weaknesses, according to your feedback
- compare them to your self-analysis - Video analysis of Oral Interp. National Poetry Champions
- Poetry Out Loud
- National Forensics Tournament (2013 poetry winner) - Analyze how each speaker uses voice inflection & volume, facial expression, gestures & body language, and purposeful pacing to communicate tone and meaning to the audience.
- Analyze your piece/s to determine the following: Speaker, Subject/story, Tone, and Theme
- Then highlight words and phrases that are especially important in communicating the speaker's attitude (tone) and whatever message about life and the human experience the author would have you take away from his or her work.
- Class reading and performance study of Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" on using voice, facial expression, and pacing to communicate the tone (of a malignant narcissist!)
- Finish analysis of piece/s and higlighting words and phrases you will need to communicate the speaker's tone and message for the audience to take away from it.
Friday, September 15, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Finish last of speeches
- Self-evaluation & reflection
- Introduction to Oral Interpretation
- Find a poetry or prose (or drama) selection that you will present as an oral interpretation piece to the class.
- Needs to run between 1 minute, 30 seconds and 2 minutes, 30 seconds
- May use more than one selection to meet time requirements; be sure they are thematically connected
- Copy and paste poem/proe pieces into a Google Doc. (double space)
- Time yourself delivering it our loud--must fall between 1.30 and 2.30.
Tuesday, September 12, 2017 -Thursday, September 14, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Recitations and peer evaluations
- Continue to practice your speech if you haven't gone yet!
Monday, September 11, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Test: Anatomy of Sound Production
- Notes: Eye contact & facial expression
- Pacing and the "fast talker"
- Volume and the "low talker"
- Partners video tape each other and critique video
- Practice speech! Deliveries begin tomorrow.
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Test: Anatomy of Sound Production
- Notes: Eye contact & facial expression
- Pacing and the "fast talker"
- Volume and the "low talker"
- Partners video tape each other and critique video
- Practice speech! Deliveries begin tomorrow.
Monday, September 11, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Test: Anatomy of Sound Production
- Notes: Eye contact & facial expression
- Pacing and the "fast talker"
- Volume and the "low talker"
- Partners video tape each other and critique video
- Practice speech! Deliveries begin tomorrow.
Friday, September 8, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Written review: phonation, vocal cords, pitch
- Mini-field trip for pitch and volume exercise with blades of grass
- Notes: SOAPStone
- Speech delivery preparation: partners record and critique each other's pitch variation and articulation (non-speaking partner circles any letter combinations that the speaking partner does not clearly pronounce or enunciate)
- Study notes--quiz on Monday!
- Practice speech!
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Notes: Physiology of Speech & Sound Production
- phonation
- vocal cords
- pitch
- volume - Exercises: How pitch variation changes meaning
- Recitation speech analysis: underline what you consider to be the most important words in each sentence. Practice speech varying pitch, considering how the pitch affects communication of meaning.
- Study notes--quiz on Monday!
- Practice speech!
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Written review: notes on anatomy of sound production
- Voiced and non-voiced consonants
- Articulation exercises
- Study notes.
- Practice speech!
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Notes: the Rhetorical Triangle
Research and identify your recitation speech's author (and authority), central argument, context and occasion for speech, and audience - Written check for memorization
- Notes: Vocal production (Chapter 3 of text: The Basics of Soeech)
- breath and sound (review)
- resonance
- articulation - Articulation exercises
- Study notes.
- Practice speech!
Monday, September 4, 2017: Labor Day!
Friday, September 1, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Written check for memorization
- Notes: Vocal production (Chapter 3 of text: The Basics of Soeech)
- breath and sound - Breathing basics and exercises
- Diagram of vocal anatomy
- Memorize remainder of speech.
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Teams: Generate memorization techniques
- Notes on memorizing & practicing purposely (practical strategies)
- Partner readings (aural & visual)
- Break speech down into small, manageable chunks (by idea, image, event, etc.), and--
- Draw a picture for each chunk, and then
- Associate one picture to the next to connect each chunk as the speech progresses.
- Finish drawing AND associating successive images for each chunk of the speech.
- Memorize first chunk of speech.
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Handout: Great Speeches packet (recitation choices)
- Team analysis and presentation of findings
- Narrow your favorites to one that you will memorize and recite.
- Write the speech out.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Partner introduction exercise
- Partner presentations
- Handout: Great Speeches packet (recitation choices)
- Choose two favorites as possible choices for your recitation.
Monday, August 28, 2017
Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
- Speech student questionnaire
- Class policies
- Introduction to The Homecourt Advantage