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
2/21/19--Class Agenda
*discuss presidential debate findings and collect
*SPAR
2/20/19--Class Agenda
*finish presidential debate activity and talk about what you saw
2/18/19--Class Agenda
*Complete presidential Debate fallacy and bias hunt
2/14/19--Kennedy/Nixon Debate 1960
2/14/19--Reagan/Carter Debate 1980
2/14/19--Trump/Clinton Debate 2016
2/14/19--Obama/McCain Debate 2008
2/14/19--Class Agenda
**Sub Day**
*Look for bias and fallacies in debate
2/13/19--Class Agenda
*Teach fallacies and biases
2/12/19--Class Agenda
*Collect Debate Article
*Assign Fallacies and Biases
*Prepare to present tomorrow
HW: finish prep for presenting