Speech Weekly Agenda

Speech Textbook: Stand up, Speak up–The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking

Week 1 Agenda

Objectives:

  • To understand the foundational elements of speech
  • To understand the course requirements
  • To review syllabus

Agenda

8:30-10:00

A)Review Syllabus

B)Tutorial of how to use the Blackboard

C)Introduce yourself to the class:

1)Your name, grade level, favorite thing to do, favorite subject in school

2)What is the most important reason behind your decision to take the Speech class?

3) What are the two or three goals you hope to achieve at the end of the course?

4)What are two major concerns about doing well in the class?

D. Speech essentials and videos on career

  1. What’s Aristotelian triangle?
  2. Why is it important to understand the rhetorical triangle in speech making?
Rhetorical Triangle

3. Who is your favorite speaker? Why? Make a list of characteristics you admire in the speaker’s style.

4. Why do we need to gain public speaking skills in the 21st century?

5. What are the similarities and differences between public speaking and conversation?

6)Review Elements of Speech: https://lumen.instructure.com/courses/218897

7)How do we overcome nervousness? How do we use the power of visualization to help achieve the effect? Watch a video: Speaking Up Without Freaking Out | by Matt Abrahams

How to establish credibility as a speaker?

H: Honesty – Be clear and straight
A: Authenticity – Be yourself
I: Integrity – Be your word
L: Love – Wish them well

10:10-11:15

E) Getting ready to introduce yourself: http://litstudies.org/Speech/speech-assignments-descriptions/

F. Zoom Breakout room: Small groups meet to discuss career choices

Resources:

–a suggested Structure of a career speech

Speech Communication Techniques by Prof. Abraham from Stanford University ( first 15 minutes)

Assignment#1: Prepare a 3-minute speech on your career choice

What are some of your career choices or your struggles of making a choice? Make a 3-minute speech about why you have decided to pursue the career or not make a decision on any career. The focus of your speech is about your career goal. In addition to considering the following, what else would you include in the speech: inspiration, aspiration, an anecdote, a role model, a TV show, a book, a film, cultural background, a tragedy, etc.

Week 2 Agenda

Essential Questions:

  1. Subject,
  2. Occasion( context, situation): Situational and Environmental Context; Cultural and Gender Context
  3. audience,
  4. purpose( message)
  5. Speaker ( persona)
  6. Tone 

Agenda: 

8:30-9:00

What is active listening? How do we do it? Why is it importnat?

Video 1: What are active listening skills?

Video 2: The art of Listening

Video 3: How to be a good listener?

  1. 1-minute meditation( https://youtu.be/F6eFFCi12v8)
  2. 5- minute presence

9:00-11:00

Deliver Self Introduction/Career Choice speech

Peer feedback using ” Commend and Recommend” using the provided rubric: What stood out to you? What’s one goal you hope you will achieve for the next speech?

11:00 am-11:15 pm

Small group reading and discussions

  1. Breakout Room#1 Chapters 2-4 from Stand up, Speak out
  2. Breakout Room#2 :Cultural biases in public speaking: https://lumen.instructure.com/courses/218897/pages/linkedtext54262
  3. Breakout Room#3 Ethics in public speaking: https://lumen.instructure.com/courses/218897/pages/linkedtext54130?module_item_id=5006949

Homework Assignment:

Review the follwoing topics on informative speeches. Be ready to share one informative speech ( provide the link) that is within 7 minutes on a specific topic. 

Introduction to Informative Speech (chapter 16 Stand up Speak up)

Week 3 Agenda

8:30-10:00am Informative vs Persuasive

Watch an informative speech on

  1. How to use Cornell Notes to enhance personal learning experiences?
  2. “ How a ghost map helped end a killer disease”
  3. What’s Snollygoster? A short lesson in political speech
  4. How to make people want to listen to you
  5. Amazing story of a man who gave us pain relief
  6. H0w to use body language to communicate our message
  7. How one act of kindness a day can change your life

Discuss:

10:00-11:00am

  1. How to create an outline for an informative speech
  2. Create your own outline
  3. Introducing the Topic, Thesis, and Main Points

11:00-12:00pm

Share in a breakout room your outline & peer feedback

Resources:

Homework Assignment:

Do online research and collect information for your topic. Prepare a purpose statement and state the two or three points you hope to make in your informative speech. Establish your credibility for speaking on your chosen topic. 

Follow CRAP rules when looking for credible online resources: Who is the author? Is s/he credible? Who is the organization that provides the infomation? Who or what does the organization represent?

Week 4 Agenda

Agenda

8:30:00-10:00

Informative speech: 

About http://litstudies.org/Speech/writing-an-informative-speech/

Discuss the sample speech on Roosevelt.

Goals of an informative speech: https://lumen.instructure.com/courses/218897/pages/linkedtext54291

A. Creating an outline based on the model speeches below. Discuss and share in Zoom breakout rooms

  1. Social Map that Reveals a Society’s Intersections

2. How texting saves lives

B. What characterizes an informative speech? 

C. Speech topics/outline review

D. Sample outlines: https://open.lib.umn.edu/publicspeaking/chapter/12-2-types-of-outlines/

10:00-10:10 Break

10:10-11:15

Each student will have 5 minutes to share the following-

  • What’s the topic of your speech?( not subject)
  • What’s your credibility?
  • What’s your thesis( purpose statement)?
  • What sources did you use for your speech?
  • Which 2 or 3 major points do you plan to make?
  • What are you still struggling with?

Resources:

  1. Introducing the Topic, Thesis, and Main Points
  2. How to research and gather information? 
  3. Using research to support
  4. How to write an introduction( Stand up; Speak out chapter 9)
  5. How to develop the body (Stand up; Speak out chapter 10)
  6. How to conclude your speech ( Stand up; Speak out chapter 11)
  7. Citing sources in speech
  8. Six elements of language
  9. Using language effectively

Resources for delivering an informative speech effectively:

  1. “ How a ghost map helped end a killer disease”
  2. What’s Snollygoster? A short lesson in political speech
  3. How to speak so that people want to listen:https://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_how_to_speak_so_that_people_want_to_listen?language=en
  4. The amazing story of a man who gave us modern pain relief: https://www.ted.com/talks/latif_nasser_the_amazing_story_of_the_man_who_gave_us_modern_pain_relief

Homework Assignment: Create a full-sentenced outline for your informative  speech.

Week 5 Agenda

Writing an Effective Informative speech: 

Review:

A. Goals of an informative speech: https://lumen.instructure.com/courses/218897/pages/linkedtext54291

B. Introducing the Topic, Thesis, and Main Points

C. How to research and gather information? 

D. How to communicate statistics? (https://lumen.instructure.com/courses/218897/pages/linkedtext54214)

E. How to communicate examples? https://lumen.instructure.com/courses/218897/pages/linkedtext54212 

F. Writing an intro, body and conclusion ( chapters 9, 10 & 11)

G. Six elements of language: Using language effectively

Defining Emotional Appeal:https://lumen.instructure.com/courses/218897/pages/linkedtext54323

9:20-9:50

Share your outline in Breakout Rooms. Be sure to include: thesis statement, establishing your credibility, sources for your information, points, subpoints, supporting evidence, a powerful conclusion: what does your topic matter? what’re the connections between your topic and your audience?

9:50-10:00 Break

10:00-11:30

Workshopping Speeches:

  • Revise a part of your speech based on today’s learning and share in a breakout room
  • Select a part of your speech and workshop it

Why Manuscript?(https://uark.pressbooks.pub/speaking/chapter/speaking-from-a-manuscript/)

The advantage to speaking with a manuscript is you have your speech in front of you. This gives you an opportunity to plan interesting wordplays and to use advanced language techniques. By managing the exact wording, you can better control the emotional tone. Another advantage to using a manuscript is you can share your speech with others both for proofing and for reference. For example, many people like to have written copies of the toast given to them at a special occasion or a copy of the eulogy to the loved one.  Politically speaking, a manuscript can be helpful to help keep you on track and to help you say only the things that you mean to say.

The disadvantage to a manuscript is if not done properly, your speech may feel like an “essay with legs.” Speaking from a manuscript is a skill; I would argue that it is one of the most difficult of all types because your goal is to read without appearing to read. It can be so tempting to lock eyes on the page where it is safe and then never look up at the audience. Finally, it is very difficult for most people to gesture when reading a manuscript. Many people run their hands down the page to keep their place while others clutch the podium and never let go. These disadvantages can be overcome with practice. You can be dynamic and engaging while using a manuscript, but it does take work.

Keys to Using a Manuscript

  • Always write a manuscript in manuscript format and never in essay format. (It should look like poetry).
  • Practice your speech at a podium/ in front of a computer so you can figure out how to change pages smoothly.
  • Learn the art of eye fixations.
  • Practice with a friend so you can master eye contact.
  • If you struggle with gestures or time, make a note on your manuscript to remind you to gesture and timing. Add dynamics to help you deliver the speech (vocal emphasis, pauses, slow down, etc)
  • Practice, practice, practice–you should actually practice more than in a typical speech since it is a harder delivery method.

Formatting a Manuscript

  • Do not start a sentence on one page and then finish it on another.
  • Do not fold the manuscript–it won’t lay flat on the podium.
  • Do not print on both sides of the page.
  • Do not staple the manuscript
  • Number your pages.
  • Use a large font and then make it one size larger than you think you need.
  • It should look like poetry.
  • Have extra spaces between every main idea.
  • Bold the first word of every main section.
  • Use /// or …. to indicate pauses in your speech.
  • Emphasize a word with a larger font or by making it bold.
  • If you have a parallel construction where you repeat the same word, bold or underline the repeated word.
  • Use an easy-to-read font.
  • Make a note (SLIDE) when you need to change your slide.
  • It is OK to omit punctuation.
  • Do whatever formatting works best for you.

Speaking Confidently

  • Homework assignment: practice delivering your speech
  • Reminder:
  1. Do practice your speech using note cards. Speak to your audience. Don’t read!
  2. Be sure to establish your credibility as a speaker and state your speech purpose in the introduction.
  3.  Be sure to start each body paragraph with a claim and use relatable evidence/data to support your claim.
  4. Use examples or anecdotes to make your speech memorable and easy to understand but you cannot only use personal experience.
  5. When speaking, remember to breathe and pause.
  6. At places where ideas are important, show that in your voice and tone. 
  7. At places where ideas are emotional, use your voice to convey it.
  8. Don’t speak too fast. Your audience need to hear you. 
  9. Adjust your camera and make sure your  shoulders and face are shown.  Speeches made without showing your face  will not be given a passing grade. Your facial expressions  become the body language.
  10. Review the speech rubric and elements of an effective speech handout to revise your speech.
  11. Have a notepad, speech rubric and speech element handout with you on Saturday. You will take notes to offer feedback to each speaker. You will use ” Commend” for strengths and ” Recommend” for areas of improvement. 
  12. We’ll use “wheel of Names” to determine the order of who goes first or next.

Homework assignment: Informative speech manuscript due 3/10

Week 6 Agenda

  1. Informative speech delivery
  2. Peer feedback

Informative Speech Presentation

Speech Delivery ( seeSpeech_Rubric_Revised.doc  )We’ll use Wheel of Name to decide the order of delivery.

Speech note catcher:

nformativeSpeech note-catcher:

Evaluating an Informative Speech DeliverySpeaker#1#2#3#4#5#6
A Beginning that Captures the Audience’s Attention: A Hook        
Speaker establishing credibility      
Speaker’s thesis          
Main Points          
Define key Concept(s)          
Effective use of data          
Effective use of narratives          
Rhythm/Sentence Variation          
Effective use of figurative Language  & imagery       
Use of transitional phrases between main points      
Soure documentation       
Adapting the topic to engage the audience      
Powerful conclusion: Why should the topic matter to your audience?      
Delivery: eye contact, voice dynamics, intonation, rhythm      
Time:
Additional Notes: 		      
Effective Use of Language/ Rhetorical Strategies/ StructureSpeaker#1#2#3#4#5#6
A Beginning that Captures the Audience’s Attention: A Hook        
Exigence/Kairos: Why does it matter?        
Speaker’s Argument            
Claims/Reasons            
Denotative Diction            
Connotative Diction            
Imagery            
Rhythm/Sentence Variation          
Figurative Language        
Using facts (logos)        
Logical Reasoning(Logos):          
Enhance Credibility (Ethos)        
Connecting with the Audience(Pathos) using Anecdotes      
Addressing an Opposing View          
Arc of Developing the Argument: Thesis-> Claim / Reason-> Evidence-> Why Evidence Supports the Claim -> Transition-> Acknowledging an Opposing view-> Refutation (counter-argument)-> So What      

Homework Assignment: Post the informative speech manuscript in the Bb

Week 7 Agenda

ntroduction to writing a persuasive speech ( chapter 17- Stand up, Speak out)

A. Informative vs Persuasive

B: Mthods of Persuasion 

C.  The Psychology of Persuasion

D. Types of Persuasive Speech

E Persuasive Strategies

Conducting audience analysis to help you select the right topic for your persuasive speech ( read sample survey questions–http://litstudies.org/Speech/writing-a-persuasive-speech/)

_______________

Objectives:

  • To know the key differences betwen informative and persuasive speeches
  • To understand strategies and psychology of persuasion
  • To be able to create a survey to gain a ” pulse”  on a selected topic

Texts: 

Introduction to persuasive speeches: 

A. Informative vs Persuasive( 5 minutes)

  • Based on the speech you analyzed, what are some of the differences between persuasive and informative speeches?

Watch a TedTalk Less Stuff more Happiness( 10 minutes)

  • How is the speech structured? How does the speaker build his argument? What’s the general purpose of his speech? What’s the specific purpose?
  • How does the speaker appeal to his audience?
  • What’s his logical reasoning? Deductive reasoning or inductive reasoning?

B:Types of Persuasive Speech( 5 MINUTES)

C. Methods of Persuasion (10 minutes)

I. Building Credibility Factors of credibility types of credibility enhancing your credibility II. Using Evidence How evidence works: a case study Tips for using evidence III. Reasoning Reasoning from specific instances reasoning from principle deductive reasoning establishing a premise for your persuasion causal reasoning analogical reasoning making a comparison between two similar cases and inferring what’s true for one case is also true for the other frequently used in a policy argument fallacies IV. Appealing to Emotions What are emotional appeals Generating emotional appeal Ethics and Emotional Appeal

D.  The Psychology of Persuasion( 15 minutes)

  • How to cause moral dissonance among your adience?
    • Cognitive dissonance is an aversive motivational state that occurs when an individual entertains two or more contradictory attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors simultaneously. For example, maybe you know you should be working on your speech, but you really want to go to a movie with a friend. In this case, practicing your speech and going to the movie are two cognitions that are inconsistent with one another. The goal of persuasion is to induce enough dissonance in listeners that they will change their attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors.
    • For cognitive dissonance to work, there needs to be a strong enough aversive consequence, or punishment, for not changing one’s attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors. For example, maybe you’re giving a speech on why people need to eat more apples. If your aversive consequence for not eating apples is that your audience will not get enough fiber, most people will simply not be persuaded, because the punishment isn’t severe enough. Instead, for cognitive dissonance to work, the punishment associated with not eating apples needs to be significant enough to change behaviors. If you convince your audience that without enough fiber in their diets they are at higher risk for heart disease or colon cancer, they might fear the aversive consequences enough to change their behavior.
    • The second condition necessary for cognitive dissonance to work is that people must have a freedom of choice
    • The final condition necessary for cognitive dissonance to work has to do with external and internal justifications. External justification refers to the process of identifying reasons outside of one’s own control to support one’s behavior, beliefs, and attitudes. Internal justification occurs when someone voluntarily changes a behavior, belief, or attitude to reduce cognitive dissonance. When it comes to creating change through persuasion, external justifications are less likely to result in change than internal justifications (Festinger & Carlsmith, 1959)
  • Persuasive Strategies: Who are the targeted audience and why should you focus on them when making the speech?

Zoom Breakout Room( 10 minutes)

In the Zoom breakout rooms, you will-

  • Share your speech topic
  • Survey your audience’s opinions on the topic

Conducting audience analysis to help you select the right topic for your persuasive speech ( read sample survey questions–http://litstudies.org/Speech/writing-a-persuasive-speech/)

Closing:( 5 minutes)

  • What did you learn from today’s session on persuasion? How will the new learning inform you of your selection of topic, narrowing down the scope, and doing research?
  • What questions do you still have about preparing your your persuasive speech?

Homework Assignments:

1) Finalize your topic for the persuasive speech

2) Do research on your topic and collect information

3) Create a Google survey for your topic to collect audience’s opinions

4) Bring in a short video ( under 7 minutes) of an effective persuaisve speech to share. What makes the speech effective?

Resources:

_______________

Week 8 Agenda

Mid Term

1. Present persuaisve speeches

2. Discuss the persuasive speech: 

3. Complete the audience survey in the breakout rooms;

Conducting audience analysis to help you select the right topic for your persuasive speech ( read sample survey questions–http://litstudies.org/Speech/writing-a-persuasive-speech/)

Create an outline

Key Elements in a persuasive speech outline:

  • Thesis
  • Claims/counter claims/ acknowledgment of an opposing view
  • Supporting evidence
  • line of reasoning- making commentary, connecting evidence to the thesis
  • refutation 
  • Call for action

Share ideas.

How to hook your audience? Watch the video .

Resources: 

Homework Assignment:

Week 9 Agenda

Objectives:

  • To sharpen the thesis
  • To understand the structure of developing an argument
  • To gain a clear understanding of writing a full sentence speech outline

Texts: 

8:30-9:30

Examples of Persuasive Speeches

  1. The danger of cellphones
  2. The danger of Silence

Discuss the persuasive speech: 

10:00-10:30

In the Zoom breakout rooms, you will-

  • Share your speech topic
  • Check your credibility on the topic: how can I establish myself as a speaker on this particular topic? Why am I passionate about the topic? Why does it matter to me? Why should it matter to my audience?

10:35-11:30

Review the persuasive speech outline( pp. 326 in Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking)

Create an outline: 

Share ideas. 

Discuss

  • cognitive dissonance
  • rhetorical appeals
  • common logical fallacies

Review

  • Chapters 9 “ Introductions Matter: How to begin a speech effectively”
  • Chapter 10: “Creating the Body of a Speech”
  • Chapter 11: “Concluding with Power”
  • Chapter 8: “ Supporting Ideas and Building Arguments”

Resources:

Homework Assignments:

Read and share key ideas in  Chapter 8: Supporting Ideas and Building Arguments

Create a full sentence outline for your persuasive speech

Week 10 Agenda

Objectives: 

  • To develop a thesis 
  • To develop claims and identify a counter claim
  • To use rhetorical appeals to add persuasion.
  • To discuss outlines of the persuasive speech
    • To analyze the effective use of rhetorical strategies and language in sample persuasive speeches
    • To apply rhetorical strategies when revising a speech
    • To discuss strategies of a good speech delivery 

8:30-9:30

Share speech outlines

Key Elements in a persuasive speech outline:

  • Thesis
  • Claims/counter claims/ acknowledgment of an opposing view
  • Supporting evidence
  • line of reasoning- making commentary, connecting evidence to the thesis
  • refutation 
  • Call for action

Why Parents should listen to their children?

Why are our screens make up unhappy?

http://litstudies.org/Speech/deductive-reasoning-and-monroe-sequence-outlines/

http://litstudies.org/Speech/outlining/

How to write a Speech Outline?

9:30-10:00

Reason with evidence

Line of reasoning: Watch a TedTalk: Can having less stuff, in less room, lead to more happiness?

On reasoning:

Share one part of the argument that’s supported by supporting evidence:

10:10-11:10

Share a revision Idea using logical reasoning

Share a counter claim and discuss strategies to address it in the speech. 

Zoom Break-out session : Share individual speech drafts in a small group and provide/receive constructive criticism

Structuring the speech

  • Attention grabbing intro and a clear thesis ( purpose statement)
  • Claims that are supported by strong evidence and logical reasoning
  • Counter claim that is acknowledged and refuted with strong evidence and logical reasoning
  • Conclusion that includes a call for action ( or suggestion for a solution)

Language and rhetorical Appeals

What’s Good Delivery when speaking from memory or extemporaneously? (  For more detailed information, visit http://litstudies.org/Speech/delivering-speeches/) 

Good delivery is a process of presenting a clear, coherent message in an interesting way. Communication scholar Stephen E. Lucas tells us: Good delivery…conveys the speaker’s ideas clearly, interestingly, and without distracting the audience. Most audiences prefer delivery that combines a certain degree of formality with the best attributes of good conversation—directness, spontaneity, animation, vocal and facial expressiveness, and a lively sense of communication. 

a. Extemporaneous speaking is the presentation of a carefully planned and rehearsed speech, spoken in a conversational manner using brief notes. It is one of the most natural methods for delivering a prepared speech. You can use an extemporaneous speech to achieve a more natural tone, flow and style with the audience. By using notes rather than a full manuscript, the extemporaneous speaker can establish and maintain eye contact with the audience and assess how well they are understanding the speech as it progresses. 

b. Memorized speaking is the recitation of a written message that the speaker has committed to memory. When it comes to speeches, memorization can be useful when the message needs to be exact and the speaker doesn’t want to be confined by notes.The advantage to memorization is that it enables the speaker to maintain eye contact with the audience throughout the speech. Being free of notes means that you can move freely around the stage and use your hands to make gestures. If your speech uses visual aids, this freedom is even more of an advantage. Stephen E. Lucas defines conversational quality as the idea that “no matter how many times a speech has been rehearsed, it still sounds spontaneous” .

  • The Speaker’s Voice: Volume, Pitch, Pace, Pauses, Vocal Variety, Pronunciation, Articulation
  • The Speaker’s Body: Personal Appearance, Movement, Gestures, Eye Contact( Sustained eye contact with your audience is one of the most important tools toward effective delivery)
  • Practicing Delivery

2. Videos in Toastmaster.org

3. How to use notecards to enhance your delivery?

  • Plan on using just five cards, written on one side only. Get 4 × 6 cards. Use one card for the introduction, one card for each of your three main points, and one card for the conclusion. number the cards.
  • Your cards should include key words and phrases, not full sentences.
  • One exception to the key word guideline would be an extended or highly technical quotation from an authoritative source. If it is critically important to present an exact quotation, you may add one additional card that will contain the quotation together with its citation. 
  • The “trick” to selecting the words to write on your cards is to identify the keywords that will trigger a recall sequence.

Always practice with your notecards.

  • Good notecards keep you from reading to your audience.
  • Good notecards are carefully based on key words and phrases to promote recall.
  • Good notecards should enhance your relationship with listeners.

Resources: 

About the Persuasive Speech presentation

I’m looking forward to everyone’s speech ! You have selected very relevant topics and hope you have done deep enough research to find the information you need to persuade your audience. Here are a few reminders and suggestions:

  • Do practice your speech using note cards. Speak to your audience. Don’t read!
  • Be sure to establish your credibility as a speaker and state your speech purpose in the introduction.
  •  Be sure to start each body paragraph with a claim and use relatable evidence/data to support your claim.
  • Use examples or anecdotes to make your speech memorable and easy to understand but you cannot only use personal experience.
  • When speaking, remember to breathe and pause.
  • At places where ideas are important, show that in your voice and tone. 
  • At place where ideas are emotional, use your voice to convey it.
  • Don’t speak too fast. Your audience needs to hear you. 
  • Adjust your camera and make sure your  shoulders and face are shown.  Speeches made without showing your face  will not be given a passing grade. Your facial expressions  become the body language.
  • Review the speech rubric and elements of an effective speech handout to revise your speech.
  • Have a notepad, speech rubric and speech element handout with you on Saturday. You will take notes to offer feedback to each speaker. You will use ” Commend” for strengths and ” Recommend” for areas of improvement.
  • We’ll use “wheel of Names” to determine the order of who goes first or next.

Week 11 Agenda

  • Persuasive speech delivery
  • Peer feedback

Speech Delivery ( seeSpeech_Rubric_Revised.doc  )We’ll use Wheel of Name to decide the order of delivery.

Speech note catcher:

Effective Use of Language/ Rhetorical Strategies/ StructureSpeaker#1#2#3#4#5#6
A Beginning that Captures the Audience’s Attention: A Hook        
Exigence/Kairos: Why does it matter?        
Speaker’s Argument            
Claims/Reasons            
Denotative Diction            
Connotative Diction            
Imagery            
Rhythm/Sentence Variation          
Figurative Language        
Using facts (logos)        
Logical Reasoning(Logos):          
Enhance Credibility (Ethos)        
Connecting with the Audience(Pathos) using Anecdotes      
Addressing an Opposing View          
Arc of Developing the Argument: Thesis-> Claim / Reason-> Evidence-> Why Evidence Supports the Claim -> Transition-> Acknowledging an Opposing view-> Refutation (counter-argument)-> So What      

________

Introducing the Occasion Speech

Selecting a topic

___________________________

Homework Assignment:

What’s an occasion speech?Read and annotate chapter 18 on Occasion Speeches

Week 12 Agenda

  • Introducing the Occasion Speech
  • Selecting a topic

Introduction to Occasional Speeches

___________________________

A. What’s an occasion speech?

1. Read and annotate chapter 18 on Occasion Speeches

I. Speeches of Introduction

II. Speeches of Presentation

III. Speeches of Acceptance

IV. Commemorative Speeches

If you decide to write a protest speech-

  • Using the occasion speech graphic organizer to help you organize your ideas for an occasion speech:
Occasion Speech ElementsExamples
OccasionEarth Day  
Physical SettingCentral  Park
AudienceTeachers, classmates, NYC Residents, School Admins, naturalist/ scientist, parents
Speaker ( Your Persona/Role)Establishing your credentialIntroducing the key speakerRepresenting student body to speak about the earthEvent organizer to kick off the Earth Day event Speaking before the tree planting ceremony
Purpose/Deeper PurposeTo celebrate -to bring awareness to a certain issue -to memorialize -to eulogize -to criticize -to harmonize/connect-to encourage -call for young generation to do more to protect the earth
Tone-Serious -humorous -Critical -Friendly -protesting -celebratory  

Watch a Rosa Park Memorial Speech by Jennifer Granholm: https://youtu.be/xZcb_UNP-i0 and discuss the occasion speech in reference to the elements above.

  1. Know your goals.
    • Know the one thing you want people to remember. 
    • Advocate for the audience
    • Read — and heed — the agenda.
    • Get right to the point. 
    • Keep it simple.
    • Establish who you are
    • Motivate, don’t educate.

2. Understanding types of occasion speeches: https://district1toastmasters.org/resources/path-to-dtm/advanced-communication-series/special-occasion-speeches/

B. How to offer a toast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z38PoXhzg20

C. Remembering Rosa Park: https://eloquentwoman.blogspot.com/2012/02/famous-speech-friday-jennifer-granholms.html

D. Use body language and gesture https://www.toastmasters.org/Resources/Video-Library/gestures-and-body-language

Sample Occasion Speeches:

Week 13 Agenda

  • Share the occasion speech topics and ideas
  • Prepare for the speech

Steps to prepare for an occasion speech

  • Describe the occasion in details
  • Who will be the audience? How can you make the speech relevant to everyone present?
  • What’s the specific purpose of your speech? What’s the message?
  • Establish your credibility for and connection with the occasion
  • Is it the organization or a person you are presenting or honoring? Or both? how are they connected?
  • What information you will present to the audience, which will direct their attention to the person or the organization or the event?
  • What’a a metaphor/symbol you can use to symbolize the meaning/ significance of the occasion?
  • If you are writing a protest speech, what’s the issue? Who do you represent? Who will be listening to your speech?
  • If you are writing a toast, what story will you tell, which is both funny , meaningful, and memorable?

Introduction to Occasional Speeches

A. What’s an occasion speech?

1. Read and annotate chapter 18 on Occasion Speeches

I. Speeches of Introduction

II. Speeches of Presentation

III. Speeches of Acceptance

IV. Commemorative Speeches

___________________

Watch : Remembering Rosa Park: https://eloquentwoman.blogspot.com/2012/02/famous-speech-friday-jennifer-granholms.html

1. Read and annotate chapter 18 on Occasion Speeches

2.Understanding types of occasion speeches: https://district1toastmasters.org/resources/path-to-dtm/advanced-communication-series/special-occasion-speeches/

Share your topic during the break-out room session.

C.. How to offer a toast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z38PoXhzg20

D. If you decide to write a protest speech-

  • Know your goals. 
  • Know the one thing you want people to remember. 
  • Advocate for the audience
  • Read — and heed — the agenda.
  • Get right to the point. 
  • Keep it simple.
  • Establish who you are
  • Motivate, don’t educate.

2. Understanding types of occasion speeches: https://district1toastmasters.org/resources/path-to-dtm/advanced-communication-series/special-occasion-speeches/

B. How to offer a toast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z38PoXhzg20

Eulogy speech to Rosa Parks by Oprah Winfrey

D. Use body language and gesture https://www.toastmasters.org/Resources/Video-Library/gestures-and-body-language

Preparing your occasion speech Resources:

Week 14 Agenda

  • Occasion Speech Delivery
  • Make-up Speech Delivery
  • Revised Speech( Persuasive or Informative) delivery

Texts: 

9:00-10:30

Share speech draft

10:40-12:00: On Delivery

1. What’s Good Delivery when speaking from memory or extemporaneously? (  For more detailed information, visit http://litstudies.org/Speech/delivering-speeches/) 

Good delivery is a process of presenting a clear, coherent message in an interesting way. Communication scholar Stephen E. Lucas tells us: Good delivery…conveys the speaker’s ideas clearly, interestingly, and without distracting the audience. Most audiences prefer delivery that combines a certain degree of formality with the best attributes of good conversation—directness, spontaneity, animation, vocal and facial expressiveness, and a lively sense of communication. 

a. Extemporaneous speaking is the presentation of a carefully planned and rehearsed speech, spoken in a conversational manner using brief notes. It is one of the most natural methods for delivering a prepared speech. You can use an extemporaneous speech to achieve a more natural tone, flow and style with the audience. By using notes rather than a full manuscript, the extemporaneous speaker can establish and maintain eye contact with the audience and assess how well they are understanding the speech as it progresses. 

b. Memorized speaking is the recitation of a written message that the speaker has committed to memory. When it comes to speeches, memorization can be useful when the message needs to be exact and the speaker doesn’t want to be confined by notes.The advantage to memorization is that it enables the speaker to maintain eye contact with the audience throughout the speech. Being free of notes means that you can move freely around the stage and use your hands to make gestures. If your speech uses visual aids, this freedom is even more of an advantage. Stephen E. Lucas defines conversational quality as the idea that “no matter how many times a speech has been rehearsed, it still sounds spontaneous” .

    • The Speaker’s Voice: Volume, Pitch, Pace, Pauses, Vocal Variety, Pronunciation, Articulation

    • The Speaker’s Body: Personal Appearance, Movement, Gestures, Eye Contact( Sustained eye contact with your audience is one of the most important tools toward effective delivery)

    • Practicing Delivery

2. Videos in Toastmaster.org

3. How to use notecards to enhance your delivery?

    • Plan on using just five cards, written on one side only. Get 4 × 6 cards. Use one card for the introduction, one card for each of your three main points, and one card for the conclusion. number the cards.

    • Your cards should include key words and phrases, not full sentences.

    • One exception to the key word guideline would be an extended or highly technical quotation from an authoritative source. If it is critically important to present an exact quotation, you may add one additional card that will contain the quotation together with its citation. 

    • The “trick” to selecting the words to write on your cards is to identify the keywords that will trigger a recall sequence.

    • Always practice with your notecards.
        • Good notecards keep you from reading to your audience.

        • Good notecards are carefully based on key words and phrases to promote recall.

        • Good notecards should enhance your relationship with listeners.

Resources: 

Assignment:

    • Be prepared to deliver your persuasive speech .

    • When you submit the writing of your speech, be sure to include a bibliography.

About the Persuasive Speech presentation

Hello All Speakers,

I’m looking forward to everyone’s speech ! You have selected very relevant topics and hope you have done deep enough research to find the information you need to persuade your audience. Here are a few reminders and suggestions:

    • Do practice your speech using note cards. Speak to your audience. Don’t read!

    • Be sure to establish your credibility as a speaker and state your speech purpose in the introduction.

    •  Be sure to start each body paragraph with a claim and use relatable evidence/data to support your claim.

    • Use examples or anecdotes to make your speech memorable and easy to understand but you cannot only use personal experience.

    • When speaking, remember to breathe and pause.

    • At places where ideas are important, show that in your voice and tone. 

    • At place where ideas are emotional, use your voice to convey it.

    • Don’t speak too fast. Your audience needs to hear you. 

    • Adjust your camera and make sure your  shoulders and face are shown.  Speeches made without showing your face  will not be given a passing grade. Your facial expressions  become the body language.

    • Review the speech rubric and elements of an effective speech handout to revise your speech.

    • Have a notepad, speech rubric and speech element handout with you on Saturday. You will take notes to offer feedback to each speaker. You will use ” Commend” for strengths and ” Recommend” for areas of improvement. 

    • We’ll use “wheel of Names” to determine the order of who goes first or next.

Week 11: 4/20/24

    • Persuasive speech delivery

    • Peer feedback

Speech Delivery ( seeSpeech_Rubric_Revised.doc  )We’ll use Wheel of Name to decide the order of delivery.

Speech note catcher:

Effective Use of Language/ Rhetorical Strategies/ Structure Speaker#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
A Beginning that Captures the Audience’s Attention: A Hook              
Exigence/Kairos: Why does it matter?              
Speaker’s Argument                  
Claims/Reasons                  
Denotative Diction                  
Connotative Diction                  
Imagery                  
Rhythm/Sentence Variation                
Figurative Language              
Using facts (logos)              
Logical Reasoning(Logos):                
Enhance Credibility (Ethos)              
Connecting with the Audience(Pathos) using Anecdotes            
Addressing an Opposing View                
Arc of Developing the Argument: Thesis-> Claim / Reason-> Evidence-> Why Evidence Supports the Claim -> Transition-> Acknowledging an Opposing view-> Refutation (counter-argument)-> So What            

    • Introducing the Occasion Speech

    • Selecting a topic

Introduction to Occasional Speeches

___________________________

A. What’s an occasion speech?

1. Read and annotate chapter 18 on Occasion Speeches

I. Speeches of Introduction

II. Speeches of Presentation

III. Speeches of Acceptance

IV. Commemorative Speeches

If you decide to write a protest speech-

    • Using the occasion speech graphic organizer to help you organize your ideas for an occasion speech:

Occasion Speech Elements Examples
Occasion Earth Day  
Physical Setting Central  Park
Audience Teachers, classmates, NYC Residents, School Admins, naturalist/ scientist, parents
Speaker ( Your Persona/Role) Establishing your credentialIntroducing the key speakerRepresenting student body to speak about the earthEvent organizer to kick off the Earth Day event Speaking before the tree planting ceremony
Purpose/Deeper Purpose To celebrate -to bring awareness to a certain issue -to memorialize -to eulogize -to criticize -to harmonize/connect-to encourage -call for young generation to do more to protect the earth
Tone -Serious -humorous -Critical -Friendly -protesting -celebratory  

Watch a Rosa Park Memorial Speech by Jennifer Granholm: https://youtu.be/xZcb_UNP-i0 and discuss the occasion speech in reference to the elements above.

    1. Know your goals.
        • Know the one thing you want people to remember. 

        • Advocate for the audience

        • Read — and heed — the agenda.

        • Get right to the point. 

        • Keep it simple.

        • Establish who you are

        • Motivate, don’t educate.

2. Understanding types of occasion speeches: https://district1toastmasters.org/resources/path-to-dtm/advanced-communication-series/special-occasion-speeches/

B. How to offer a toast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z38PoXhzg20

C. Remembering Rosa Park: https://eloquentwoman.blogspot.com/2012/02/famous-speech-friday-jennifer-granholms.html

D. Use body language and gesture https://www.toastmasters.org/Resources/Video-Library/gestures-and-body-language

Sample Occasion Speeches:

Week 13: 5/4/24

    • Share the occasion speech topics and ideas

    • Prepare for the speech

Steps to prepare for an occasion speech

    • Describe the occasion in details

    • Who will be the audience?

    • What’s the specific purpose of your speech?

    • Establish your credibility for and connection with the occasion

    • Is it the organization or a person you are presenting or honoring? Or both? how are they connected?

    • What information you will present to the audience, which will direct their attention to the person or the organization or the event?

    • What’a a metaphor you can use to symbolize the meaning/ significance of the occasion?

    • If you are writing a protest speech, what’s the issue? Who do you represent? Who will be listening to your speech?

    • If you are writing a toast, what story will you tell, which is both funny , meaningful, and memorable?

Introduction to Occasional Speeches

A. What’s an occasion speech?

1. Read and annotate chapter 18 on Occasion Speeches

I. Speeches of Introduction

II. Speeches of Presentation

III. Speeches of Acceptance

IV. Commemorative Speeches

___________________

Watch : Remembering Rosa Park: https://eloquentwoman.blogspot.com/2012/02/famous-speech-friday-jennifer-granholms.html

2. What type of occasion speech you are planning to make.

A. What’s an occasion speech?

1. Read and annotate chapter 18 on Occasion Speeches

B. Understanding types of occasion speeches: https://district1toastmasters.org/resources/path-to-dtm/advanced-communication-series/special-occasion-speeches/

Share your topic during the break-out room session.

C.. How to offer a toast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z38PoXhzg20

D. If you decide to write a protest speech-

    • Know your goals. 

    • Know the one thing you want people to remember. 

    • Advocate for the audience

    • Read — and heed — the agenda.

    • Get right to the point. 

    • Keep it simple.

    • Establish who you are

    • Motivate, don’t educate.

2. Understanding types of occasion speeches: https://district1toastmasters.org/resources/path-to-dtm/advanced-communication-series/special-occasion-speeches/

B. How to offer a toast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z38PoXhzg20

C. Remembering Rosa Park: https://eloquentwoman.blogspot.com/2012/02/famous-speech-friday-jennifer-granholms.html

Eulogy speech to Rosa Parks by Oprah Winfrey

D. Use body language and gesture https://www.toastmasters.org/Resources/Video-Library/gestures-and-body-language

Preparing your occasion speech Resources:

Week 14: 5/11/24

    • Occasion speech delivery

    • Make-up speech/ deliver a revised speech

Wheel of Names

Week 15: 5/18/24( No Zoom Meet)

    • The Final Exam

    • Complete the Course reflection

At the starting time of the class, login in to the Blackboard to start your final. There will be no zoom meet.

Go to the assignment and complete the exam. You may write the response in your Google doc but be sure to submit the work when you are done in the Blackboard.

    •  Final Exam part #1 Speech Analysis

    • The Final Part 2 is a course reflection