Name: Weeks 11 & 12 - Persuasive Speaking
Start Date - End Date:
11/11/2013 - 11/22/2013
|After a week of presenting Informative speeches, we will be moving into our Persuasion unit, as follows.|
At the end of the persuasion unit, students will deliver a 6-8
minute persuasive speech on an approved topic. The goal of this speech
is to persuade the audience to carry out a stated goal or to believe in
the speaker's thesis by delivering it in a clear, organized, and
well-supported manner. Good delivery skills will include confidence,
enthusiasm, eye contact, clear and audible speech, proper grammar,
logical progression of ideas, citing outside sources, gestures, and lack
of distracting mannerisms and filler words.
11/11 - 11/15 - Deliver Informative speeches with peer critiques.
11/18 - Reading on persuasive tactics w/KIM vocab
Prepare short speech: The Secret Life of HCIS Teachers
11/19 - Deliver speeches; discuss reading. Commercial assignment handout.
11/21 - Analysis of television commercials; do advertising worksheet. Discuss commercial assignment, put into teams and get to work.
11/22 - Work time on commercial project. Script due on Monday! (11/25)
Assignments with due dates, listed above, as well as participation in discussions and class activities and use of work time.
III. SPEAKING, LISTENING AND VIEWING The student will speak clearly
and effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences. The student
1. Distinguish between speaker’s opinion and verifiable facts and analyze the credibility of the presentation.
2. Deliver a speech in a logical manner using grammatically correct
language, including vocabulary appropriate to the topic, audience and
6. Identify and understand essential elements, skills and
implications of persuasion, argumentation, and debate as essential oral
7. Apply assessment criteria to self-evaluation of oral presentations.