Speech
Course Description
Discover a comprehensive Speech course centered on Research, guiding participants to become adept communicators and skilled presenters. Craft tailored oral presentations, adapting to diverse audiences through verbal and stylistic choices. Elevate your delivery with visual aids, strategic use of digital media, and dynamic presentation techniques. Choose from Leadership, Citizenship/Civic Responsibility, or Digital Literacy paths to not only refine speaking skills, but also to foster character and competence. Unlock the power to captivate, inform, and inspire through our transformative Speech course.
Communication Skill
Learn this: I will learn how to report orally on a topic or text.
Do this: I will create an audio or video presentation that shows that I know how to:
Present information.
Consider my audience.
Integrate multiple sources of information: speaking, tone of voice, and digital media presentation to enhance understanding.
Grow from: I will respond to teacher feedback.
Research
Learn this: I will organize formal oral communication taking into consideration task and audience.
Do this: I will create a project that shows that I know how to:
Complete research for my speech.
Organize information in a way that it flows and makes sense.
Create an outline to organize information.
Edit, refine, and revise my information taking into consideration task and audience.
Grow from: I will respond to teacher feedback.
Presentation of Knowledge & Ideas
Learn this: I will be able to integrate visual and presentation skills of data to express information and enhance understanding.
Do this: I will create a presentation that supports a speech for Topic 1: Communication Skill or Topic 4: Competency and Character Development.
The presentation can be a slideshow, whiteboard, charts, graphs, flip charts, props, etc...
Grow from: I will respond to teacher feedback.
Competency and Character Development
Learn this: I will choose one of the Competency and Character Development topics to research and then create a speech.
Do this: I will create a speech that shows that I know about one of these topics:
Leadership: leverage the strengths of others to achieve common outcomes or goals.
Citizenship/Civic Responsibility: think critically about complex issues and evaluate information about issues of public consequence.
Digital Literacy: confidently and effectively perform tasks in a digital environment.
Grow from: I will respond to teacher feedback.