8/29/18--Class Agenda
*Finish product evaluations and begin presenting
HW: None
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
8/28/18--Class Agenda
*Finish product presentations
*begin product evaluations
HW: none
8/27/18--Class Agenda
*Begin product pitch presentations
HW: none
8/24/18--Class Agenda
*Work day for product pitches
HW: be prepared for product pitches on Monday
8/23/18--Class Agenda
*finish presenting appeals in commercials
*Begin product pitch project (due Monday)
HW: prepare for product pitch
8/22/18--Class Agenda
*Begin presentations of commercial analysis (will finish tomorrow)
HW: None
8/21/18--Class Agenda
*collect syllabus
*discuss and collect persuasion log from homework last night
*Appeals in commercials--individual assignment (last slide on the presentation from yesterday)
HW: finish preparing to present analysis of commercial tomorrow
8/20/18--Class Agenda
*collect syllabus
*collect author bios
*intro to rhetoric with commercials
*persuasion log
HW: 1. syllabus due tomorrow. 2. persuasion log due tomorrow.
8/17/18--Class Agenda
*collect syllabus
*review and collect scavenger hunt
*author bios
HW: 1. syllabus due Tuesday. 2. printed author bios due Monday.