Know Your Audience

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Know Your Audience
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Created by Carrie Ziolkowski, GALACTIC
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Know Your Audience

• Grade 6
• This activity addresses the following Missouri
  Standards
• Apply established criteria to evaluate
  communications (MO 1.6 4.1)
• Process and organize thinking about a topic
  using a variety of formats (MO 1.8 1.10)
• Draw conclusions and form opinions (MO 1.6 1.8)

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Know Your Audience
Day 1
General Directions
Day 2
Meet the Candidates
Day 3
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Your class is in charge of finding two quality
speakers to participate in your schools Career
Day next month. To find speakers, your class
decided to put an ad in the local newspaper.
Go on...
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What a response! Twenty people are interested
in participating in Career Day. Now, your
class must decide which of the applicants will
best fill the two available slots.

• Go on...

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Your class decides to ask each of the applicants
to write a short paragraph describing their
skills and talents. Four semi-finalists have
been chosen by your teacher.

• Go on.

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Now your class must work as a group to read the
four paragraphs and decide which two applicants
should present at Career Day.

• Go on.

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1. On the chalkboard, brainstorm a list of
qualities that good guest speakers should have.
(For example, you might think that being
interesting is very important.) 2. Vote as a
class on the 2 most important qualities on your
list. Jot these qualities in your journal.
Day 1...
End of Day 1
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Make a chart to evaluate each of the 4
applicants. You can do this in your journal.
Click here to see a
Sample Chart...
Day 2...
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Sample
Chart
Quality 1
Quality 2

• Click Here To meet the Applicants

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Choose an applicant to meet
Applicant 1
Applicant 3
Applicant 2
Applicant 4
Weve met everyone
End of Day 2
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Go Back...
Applicant 1
I am interested in being considered for your
schools Career Day. I am a fire fighter. In
addition to fighting fires, I regularly visit
schools and businesses to talk about the
importance of using smoke detectors in homes and
other buildings.
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Go Back...
Applicant 2
Hello. I think I might like to speak at your
school-if I have the time. I am a stock broker
and could tell you a lot of exciting things about
stocks and bonds. Hopefully, I would be able to
fit this event into my extremely busy schedule.
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Go Back...
Applicant 3
Howdy! I would like to share my work with you
at your Career Day. I own a dairy farm and
supply many local grocery stores with quality
products including milk, cheese, and ice cream.
I would be happy to share my many
responsibilities with you and explain why my job
is so very important.
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Go Back...
Applicant 4
Like, I might like to com to your school, but Im
relly not sure what I would talk about. I work
in business and sell diffrent computers and
stuff. Sorry if I made any mistakes, but my
secratery is on vacation. And I not sur where
the spell checker is on this masheen.
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Day 3...
Let your voice be heard!

• Hold a class debate...
• Who do you think is most qualified to speak at
  Career Day? Why?
• Who do you feel is least qualified? Why?
• Use your chart to defend your opinions.

Click here to Vote !
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Hold a class vote! Each person in your class
should vote for the two candidates who they think
are the most qualified.
After the vote...

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• In your journal, respond to these questions
• Do you think your class made the best decision
  possible?
• Should your class have chosen different
  qualities to evaluate the candidates for Career
  Day?

End Activity