Oral Rhetoric
Assignment Calendar
Course Description
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This one-semester course (can take it twice for credit) is designed to help students improve their speaking skills, their writing skills, and their understanding of literature. Students will analyze the structure and content of effective speeches, will write and present speeches using techniques studied, and will learn to listen with critical attention. They will study and analyze literary works, interpret them orally, and write critically about them.
Course units include:
- What is Rhetoric
- Speeches of Literature
- Speeches of History
- Expository Speeches
- Spontaneous Speeches
- Special Occasion Speeches
Posts
5/24/19--Class Agenda
*Practice final speech
5/23/19--Class Agenda
*Work on Final Assignment
5/22/19--Class Agenda
*Student Paths survey
*Final Assignment work
5/21/19--Class Agenda
*Final assignment
5/20/19--Class Agenda
*Work on final assignment
5/17/19--Class Agenda
*Work on final speech--planning due today
5/16/19--Class Agenda
*Work on final essay---drafting materials due tomorrow in class.
5/15/19--Class Agenda
*Final Assignment
--Outline/Brainstorming/Beginning of draft due Friday
5/14/19--Class Agenda
*Impromptu Pecha Kucha
*Final assignment
5/13/19--Class Agenda
*Finish Pecha Kucha
*Collect Lit Mag Extra Credit
5/10/19--Class Agenda
*Pecha Kucha presentations
5/09/19--Class Agenda
*Pecha Kucha presentations