Public Speaking

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Public Speaking

• Major Assignments

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Introductory Speech/Paper Bag Speech

• Presented during the first week of class, this
  speech is designed to provide an easy
  introduction to speaking in front of your
  classmates. Everyone will receive a paper lunch
  bag. You are to put 3 items in the bag to use as
  props during your speech. The items must fit
  entirely /within the bag and be easily seen by
  the entire audience. Pictures are usually
  difficult to see. Your items should give the
  audience an idea about your personality.
• 3 minutes

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Speech of Personal Experience

• Tell the class about an experience of yours that
  was funny, exciting, embarrassing or interesting.
  Be sure you have an introduction, conclusion and
  3 main points. However, you should be telling us
  a story, so this is similar to a narrative essay.
• 3-4 minutes

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Demonstration Speech

• Demonstrate a particular talent or skill you have
  to the class. Be sure your props are easily seen
  throughout the room. Be sure that your skill is
  neither simple enough to the dull nor too
  complicated to perform in the classroom. Focus on
  using gestures and body language to show your
  talent.
• 4-5 minutes

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Speech to Inform

• Choose an important global issue. You are to
  explain both sides of the issue without taking
  sides. Provide at least two credible sources of
  information to support your statements.

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Speech to Persuade

• Use your persuasive skills to tackle a larger
  issue, preferably one that has been discussed in
  the national media. We will spend at lease one
  class period in the lab doing research to support
  your opinion. You must present at least two
  credible sources of information during the course
  of your speech. Again, state the current
  situation, what is wrong with it, and how it can
  be improved. Also, include a call to action that
  inspires your audience to make a difference.

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Infomercial

• Heres your chance to have fun with your
  persuasive skills. Create an imaginary product
  and sell it to the class. You may use two props
  during your speech. Be creative and funny, but
  remember to include the basics of a persuasive
  speech.
• 3-4 minutes

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Speech to Motivate

• Have you ever wished you had the power to change
  peoples behavior? If so, you should consider
  motivational speaking. We will learn to gain the
  audiences attention, develop a sense of need,
  provide satisfaction for the problem, help the
  audience visualize the solution, and then
  encourage the audience to act.
• 4-5 minutes

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Speech to Entertain

• Plan and deliver a speech that entertains and
  enlightens an audience. We will focus on using
  humor effectively.
• 5-6 minutes

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Impromptu

• Throughout the semester, you will deliver
  impromptu speeches. You will choose a topic from
  the fishbowl which may be a question, or a
  person, place or thing. You will have three
  minutes to prepare a speech. Before you even get
  your topic, create an outline for your
  introduction, 3 points and conclusion. Plug in
  your ideas once you have a topic. Take all the
  time allowed to you to plan. You will be called
  to speak after your planning time is up.
• 3-4 minutes

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Reading aloud Childrens Stories

• Reading aloud is probably the one type of public
  speaking that every person will do at some point.
  Reading aloud to children helps them learn the
  language, and it has the added bonus of being fun
  for you and them. You will choose a childrens
  book to read aloud to our class.
• 1. Pick a childrens story that is appropriate
  for students in grades K-3.
• 2. Stand when reading the book to our class (If
  we should go to Vadnais elementary schools later,
  then you probably will sit with the kids on the
  floor.)
• 3. Decide how best to hold the book.
• 4. Decide what pictures to show and how to show
  them so all can see.
• 5. Include asides when showing some of the
  pictures. Those should involve the audience at
  all times.
• 6. Develop eye contact with the audience during
  the reading and the showing of pictures.
• 7. Project your voice so all can hear.
• 8. Distinguish the characters with different
  voices and facial expressions. Also be consistent
  with those voices.
• 9. Establish the mood with facial expression and
  tone of voice.
• 4-7 minutes

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Poetry Recitation

• 1. Choose a poem or a few poems that appeal to
  you.
• 2. These poems should be published by an
  established author.
• 3. Understand the whole poem-the theme, each
  word, each stanza, each poetic device, all that
  contributes to the whole idea and mood.
• 4. Prepare an introductionperhaps title, author,
  and why you chose the poem or how the poems
  connect or contrast.
• 5. Selection should be placed in a folder you can
  hold easily with one hand. This leaves the other
  hand free for gestures.
• 6. As you practice your selection, mark your
  script for pauses, emphasis, and anything else
  that will help you have a good performance.
• 7. Show this understanding to your audience as
  you read
• .Show your understanding and response through
  facial expressions, as well as through your vocal
  variety.
• .Vary volume, pitch, pace, and accent when
  appropriate.
• .Delineate characters and moods.
• .Be convincing.
• .Learn to phrase and emphasize to support the
  meaning of the poem.
• .Make effective use of the pause. Dont
  necessarily pause at the end of each line.
• .Develop eye contact during the reading. Adapt
  to your audience. Be aware of their reactions.
• 8. Pronounce all words correctly.
• 9. Stay within the 3-5 minute time limit. You may
  need to edit the poem if it is a long one, so
  edit with care so to keep the flow and meaning.
• 10. Practice aloud as you prepare for this
  reading. Work on flow.

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Prose Reading

• 1. Performance should be between 3-5 minutes in
  length.
• 2. Selection should be placed in a folder you can
  hold easily with one hand. This leaves the other
  hand free for gestures.
• 3.As you practice your selection. Mark your
  script for pauses, emphasis, character voices and
  anything else that will help you have a good
  performance.
• 4. Work on different and appropriate voices for
  all characters including the narrator.
• 5. Work of different body language for each
  character, including the narrator. However, dont
  move around the stage during your performance.
• 6. Practice in front of a mirror, with an an
  audio recorder or video recorder.
• 7. Learn your selection so you can look at the
  audience as much as possible. Remember the eyes
  are the windows to the soul.
• 8. Feel free to cut character identifications as
  well as any long narrative portions that do not
  advance the plot.
• 9. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE.
• 10. Use eye movements to see objects,
  surroundings and characters in your story.
• 11. THE TRUE TEST OF A GOOD INTERPRETATION IS TO
  TAKE YOUR AUDIENCE AWAY TO THE TIME AND PLACE OF
  THE STORY UNFOLDING.
• 3-5 minutes

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Dramatic Scenes

• Select a dramatic monologue from many that will
  be available to the class. Selection should be
  placed in a folder you can hold easily with one
  hand. This leaves the other hand free for
  gestures.
• As you practice your selection, mark you script
  for pauses, emphasis and anything else that will
  help you have a good performance.
• Present the monologue in a compelling way.

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The Job interview CDE

• A. Cover Letter.
• 1. Write a single spaces 8 ½ x 11 white
  bond paper letter if intent. The paper is to
  be single sided, block justified using times.
  Times new roman or arial 12 point min. font.
• B. Resume (150 points)
• 1. Write a single spaced 8 ½ x 11 white
  standard bond paper (DO NOT use cardstock,
  colored or specialty paper for this event).
  The Resume is to be single sided only, typed
  not to exceed to pages total.
• 2. Resume must be non-fictitious and based upon
  your work history.
• C. In class, the following will be competed
• 1. Personal Interview
• a. This will consist of an interview in front
  of a panel of teacher judges. Each interview
  will last 5-7 min
• Other information (including rubrics) will be
  made available to you?
• 5-7 minutes.

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Keynote Address

• A keynote address is the opening speech for a
  convention or gathering of professionals in a
  specific career. The speaker must work within an
  established theme for the convention. You will be
  assigned a theme, and must create a speech
  related to that theme. In your introduction,
  welcome assigned a theme, and be sure to name
  their profession. Your speech may include touches
  of humor, and may be either persuasive or
  informative. You should, however, end on a
  positive note, and offer a challenge to the
  participants related to the convention theme. In
  the real world, a keynote address may last as
  long as an hour, and therefore, requires more
  detailed preparation. While your speech to the
  class will not be that long, you will be speaking
  from a manuscript. Type or write your manuscript
  out, word for word, very neatly and large enough
  to see easily. When speaking, simply slide the
  used page off to the side to avoid shuffling your
  papers

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After Dinner Speaking

• Many professional meetings coordinate their meal
  with an entertaining or thought-provoking
  speaker. Your task is to capture your audiences
  attention away from their coffee and desert.
  Often, audience members are seated so that they
  are facing away from the speaker. The speaker is
  usually above the audience on a dais. We will try
  our best to recreate these conditions in the
  classroom.
• 3-5 minutes

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Prepared Public Speaking

• Participants may choose any current subject for
  their speeches, which is of an agricultural
  nature. This may include Agriscience and
  technology, agribusiness, agrimarketing,
  international agricultural relations and
  agricultural communications. Rubrics will be
  provided.
• 6-8 minutes

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Commencement Speech

• You will deliver an address as if you were the
  designated speaker representing your high school
  class during your graduation ceremony. For the
  purpose of this assignment, consider yourself a
  senior no matter what class you currently belong
  to. In your introduction, acknowledge the
  contributions of your parents, family and
  teachers in guiding you towards your diploma. In
  the body of your speech, refer to at least one
  appropriate incident that the entire class can
  remember and enjoy. Be sure that it is not an
  inside reference that only your friends would
  recognize. In the conclusion, offer a challenge
  for the future to the members of your class.
  Please be sure that you practice ahead of time,
  as students are often surprised by their emotions
  on this particular assignment. Hopefully, this
  round of speeches will be delivered in an
  appropriate environment, such as the auditorium.
  Also, you may be expected to speak using a
  microphone.
• 4-5 minutes.