1/21/19--Class Agenda
*Draft speeches
--full draft due when you walk into class on Friday
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
1/16/20--Class Agenda
*collect syllabus
*begin drafting speech
1/15/20--Class Agenda
*collect syllabus
*finish speech planning
*begin drafting
1/14/20--Class Agenda
*Collect syllabus
*Improvements
*Scholarship Speeches
1/13/20--Class Agenda
*Syllabus
*Reverse Charades
HW: Signed syllabus due Friday
12/03/19--Class Agenda
*Student Paths
*Discuss rest of semester plans
12/02/19--Class Agenda
Welcome Back!
*Saugus Strong Family Time
11/13/19--Class Agenda
*finish chunking speech
*draft speech
HW: work on drafting speech and practice timing
11/08/19--Class Agenda
*Turn in historical speech scripts with notes and assignment sheets
*Finish message assignment and start planning speech
11/07/19--Class Agenda
*Finish TEDTalk
*What's Your Message Assignment
11/06/19--Class Agenda
*Finish TEDTalks
11/05/19--Class Agenda
*finish historical speeches
*Begin Expository speeches