10/10/18--Class Agenda
*Tips from CHSSA for historical speech cutting and performance
*finish cutting speech if needed and begin preparing performance--memorize by next Friday
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
10/09/18--Class Agenda
*Pick a speech from history to deliver and begin cutting down to 5-7 minutes. Need to have it cut by the end of the period tomorrow.
10/08/18--Class Agenda
*Discuss and collect Reagan speech
*Begin historical speech assignment--pick speech
10/05/18--Class Agenda
**Sub Today**
*Reagan Speech assignment
10/05/18--Class Agenda
*Reagan Speech
10/04/18--RFK MLK Speech
10/04/18--Class Agenda
*Finish speeches--turn in speech notes
*Kairos presentation
*RFK speech
10/03/18--Class Agenda
*Present Speeches
*collect speech notes
HW: none
9/28/18--Class Agenda
*Last day to plan and practice speech--presentations on Wednesday--notes will be collected on Wednesday
9/27/18--Class Agenda
*Plan and practice speech--presenting tomorrow
HW: prepare for speech tomorrow--notes will be collected.
9/26/18--Class Agenda
*Planning for speech
HW: presentations on Friday