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

11/14/18--Class Agenda

***Sub Day***
*finish chunk outlining 
*begin drafting speech transcript 

11/09/18--Class Agenda

*finish message planning 
*read and annotate chunking excerpt
HW: finish reading and annotating chunking excerpt 

11/08/18--Class Agenda

*Discuss TedTalk analysis and collect
*Discuss "What's Your Message" and finish--begin front planning

11/07/18--Class Agenda

**Sub Day**
*finish TedTalk analysis
*"What's Your Message"--read and annotate excerpt (get in class if absent)