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

1/17/19--Class Agenda

*Scholarship Speech planning and drafting
--1st draft due 1/22
--final draft due 1/24
--submit to turnitin.com by 2/5
HW: syllabus due tomorrow 

1/15/19--Class Agenda

*collect syllabus
*quick intros (name, what did you improve on last semester, what do you want to improve on this semester)
*Introduce scholarship speeches--pick up in class if absent
HW: signed syllabus due Friday 

12/11/18--Class Agenda

*Draft Special Occasion Speech--script needs to be done by the end of the period tomorrow
**dress for your occasion for the day of the final 

12/07/18--Class Agenda

*Work on Special Occasion Speeches
*Speech example analysis (see me in class for your specific assignment)

12/05/18--Class Agenda

*finish expository speech
*final speech assignment--special occasion speeches