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Intro to Communications (Speech) (Period 1st) Assignments

Instructor
Coach/Mr. Jim Steinbrecher
Term
2017-18 School Year
Department
Visual & Performing Arts
Description
 The ultimate goal for this class is to get students comfortable presenting a variety of ways via live speeches, recorded presentations, readers' theatre, radio & tv commercials, and a group tv news broadcast.  We will also present poetry and develop storytelling techniques.

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Using the attached Outline as a guide, complete an outline for your Inanimate Object Speech.
 
Also, I have attached the rubric for this speech and information for the Eulogy if you choose to go that route.

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in groups of two or working by yourself--use the attached file (Analyzing News) as a resource and look at the third sheet/pg. 63 "Practice Worksheet A, Analyzing TV News" for the correct format to use on your own paper, then complete the assignment described.
 
Use this time in class to view the first five mins of a local or national newscast.  If there is terminology you don't know, look it up online and/or ask me.  Some items are defined on pg. 61 (the first sheet).
 
 
or find a national or another city's local news replay by searching with these terms:
links to newscast replays
 
If you truly don't understand this assignment, then copy the vocabulary on p. 61 and make sure that your journal is up-to-date for this past week--you should have a journal entry for every day!

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Using this handout as a guideline, complete Three Stars & a Wish for each presenter today on your own paper.  No name is needed--just pass it to the presenter when he/she finishes.

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The Great Thanksgiving Listen--Multiple due dates:
 
Wed-11-29--8 topics and list of questions for each interview and final list of all four names & age categories and planned multimedia 
 
Thurs 11-30. Sign up for presentations
 
Tues 12-5--Entire project is due including multimedia; presentations begin.
 

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Order of events 1st-3rd (Speech)

--On Edmodo—Journal topic
What you are doing—some in 1st and 2nd still need to do their group practice for their Readers Theater presentations—we will finish on Monday. Those groups may get their scripts and practice in the hallway at the guest teacher's discretion. The remaining students should be working on one of two items:
1. Your Interview projects due on Tuesday (revised due date)
AND/OR
2. Memorizing your short poems (I have printed ten copies of two pages in case someone has a laptop issue otherwise, you should have these saved on your laptops. It is also still on my school website.)
What you are turning in: With 5 mins remaining, please write down
1. What you worked on in class today,
2. When you would like to present your interviews (choices are Tu, Wed, Th)
3. Which poem you are memorizing (just write the number 2-8)

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Here is the outline template for the Pet Peeve speech--either print this out on your own OR just rewrite your outline on your own paper using this format.

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 Read through the Pet Peeve Speech Information pages.  The first page lists the musts and be carefuls for the pet peeve while the second page lists 70+ ideas that you can use to come up with your topic for this speech.
 
Things to keep in mind:  your idea does not have to come from this list--in fact, this list is more from the business word, but I thought it was an enjoyable list to read through.
 
Also, realize that your pet peeve may need to be stated more "generally" and then you give three examples of when that occurs.
 
For example, your pet peeve is waiting--so your three examples are waiting in a dr office, at a restaurant, and at your date's house while he/she gets ready.
 
TURNING IN TUES--I need two ideas from everyone of what they might want to speak on.  We will do outline sheets once again later this week and begin these speeches in the middle of next week.

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Read through this page and when you are finished reading, do the following:
 
A. Write a minimum of five items that you learned (or reviewed because you remember me mentioning it some time in the past few days).TURN THIS IN--Make sure your name is on it.
 
B. Work on your outline--no gaming, no watching Netflix/Hulu/whatever, and no sleeping!
 
C. If you are confident that your outline is perfect, let someone else look at it.  If they agree with you, begin your notecards.  Blank cards are located on the student desk/table in the upper left corner of the room by the first monitor--the A1 seat.  There are big and small cards.  Use the side with lines and number your notecards.  Use more than one.  Write slowly, legibly, and LARGE.
 
I have attached the Demonstration Speech Rubric so you can read about what I am looking for when I am grading this speech.