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

2/12/20--Class Agenda

*MLA Format Sample
*fix, revise, proofread, submit speech to turnitin.com 

1/30/20--Class Agenda

*Practice speeches in front of class and out loud. 
HW: practice speeches 

1/29/20--Class Agenda

*Practice and feedback in front of class all this week
HW: practice delivery of speech 

1/27/20--Class Agenda

*Revise speeches to fill timing
*Begin practicing delivery
**Delivery practice in the front of the room starts Wednesday