Honors Section Available: No
Brief Course Description
Speech is a three day per week, one year course. Its primary aim is to teach students practical public speaking skills, particularly in the development and presentation of speeches.
Course Goals and/or Major Student Outcomes
Students will develop:
- Analytical and research skills through the development of speeches from concept to delivery.
- Confidence in making presentations.
Course Objectives
Students will learn:
- How to select topics, plan, research, organize, and deliver speeches.
- Rhetorical techniques and methods of persuasion.
- Strategies for working effectively in small groups.
- The basics of competitive debate.
Key Assignments
- Students will complete a series of worksheets for brainstorming ideas for topics, planning the structure of a speech, developing the introduction and conclusion, etc.
- Students will give a series of speeches-informative, interpretive reading, persuasive, commemorative.
- Students will regularly complete worksheets to reinforce the main concepts being covered in the class.
- Students will participate in a small-scale policy issue debate.
- Each unit will end with a quiz over the major concepts.
Prerequisites:
None