Oral Rhetoric

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:

  1. What is Rhetoric
  2. Speeches of Literature
  3. Speeches of History
  4. Expository Speeches
  5. Spontaneous Speeches
  6. Special Occasion Speeches

Posts

9/25/18--Class Agenda

*Choose a speech and begin planning--delivery Friday (?)
HW: prepare speech delivery

9/24/18--Class Agenda

*last presentation of Without Saying a Word
*OJ Simpson interview analysis
*Mark Zuckerburg interview analysis
HW: none

9/21/18--Class Agenda

*Finish Without Saying a Word chapters
HW: rhetorical analysis essay due tonight by midnight to turnitin.com

9/20/18--Class Agenda

*Without Saying a Word chapter teachings
HW: rhetorical analysis due tomorrow by midnight to turnitin.com. 

9/19/18--Class Agenda

*Work on chapter of Without Saying a Word--teaching starts tomorrow
HW: Rhetorical Analysis of Caesar Mark Anthony speech due Friday by midnight to turnitin.com. 

9/18/18--Class Agenda

*Work on chapter of Without Saying a Word--teaching starts tomorrow
HW: Rhetorical Analysis of speech due Friday by midnight 

9/17/18--Class Agenda

*Intro and chapter 1 of Without Saying a Word
*choose chapter in Without Saying a Word to teach to the class
*Julius Caesar speech analysis--Homework 
HW: rhetorical analysis of speech due Friday by midnight to turnitin.com