Speech

** 5-Minute Speeches: Wakefield 2020 ** Models | Characteristics of Effective Speeches| Grading Guidelines | Topic Ideas | Resources **__ The Goal  __**Each member of the junior class will give a polished five-minute speech on what some aspect of schooling at Wakefield should be like in the year 2020. No two speeches in each section should cover the same topic.

Public speaking is a skill that will serve you well as you continue your education and as you move into the adult world as businesspeople, teachers, parents, etc.
 * __Why We're Doing This__**


 * __Skills We're Building__**
 * Speech Analysis
 * Topic Selection
 * Planning
 * Research
 * Public Speaking

**__Models__**

//MLK Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech// media type="google" key="-3939859745825675359&hl=en" width="400" height="326"

[|Audio of President Reagan's Address on the Challenger Disaster]

[|John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address] (1961)

//Prof. Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture" (2008)// media type="google" key="-5700431505846055184&hl=en" width="400" height="326"

//Barack Obama's Race Speech (2008)// media type="google" key="-4854918008115627286&hl=en" width="400" height="326"

[|Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech] (1941)

//Jimmy Valvano's 1993 ESPY Speech// media type="google" key="-2900023542009278505&hl=en" width="400" height="326"

//Apple founder Steve Jobs' Commencement Speech at Stanford// (2005) media type="google" key="-204609026222503944&hl=en" width="400" height="326"

//Miss Teen South Carolina gives an example of an ineffective speech// (Courtesy of Catherine Farr and Ian Martin)

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 * Notice that Miss South Carolina is very poised in her delivery, yet fails in the content area.
 * Her nerves seem to take hold after her first mistake and she never recovers. Don't dwell on your mistake and just move on. You must have a speaker's amnesia.

**__Characteristics of an Effective Speech__**
 * Knows its audience, how much they know about the subject, and the terms they will understand
 * Addresses all parts of the audience (regardless of age, race, gender, etc.)
 * Engages audience through non-verbal means, such as sad pictures of polar bears in //An Inconvenient Truth//, PowerPoints, music, etc.
 * Economy of words -- every word matters (no fluff)
 * Sincere emotion comes through in the tone of the speaker's words
 * Direct address of the audience
 * References to historical events
 * Allusions and other rhetorical figures (see [|Rhetorical Figures in Speech)]
 * Clear speech and diction
 * Lack of stage fright

**__Grading Guidelines__** See the assignment sheet distributed in class: [|comp_speech_assignment.doc]

**__Topic Ideas__**
 * Technology (i.e. use of iPods, etc.)
 * Dances
 * Student Body/Population
 * Buildings/Trailers
 * Curriculum for various classes
 * Uniform
 * Food
 * Behavior
 * Discipline
 * Sports
 * "Going green"
 * Theater
 * Activities
 * PDA (Public Displays of Affection)
 * Lunch/food
 * Transportation
 * The bridge
 * Teachers
 * School spirit
 * Trailers

**__Resources__** [|Animoto] -- puts images and music together into a slideshow [|Write Out Loud] -- a site dedicated to helping people overcome the fear of public speaking (good tips for planning speeches, too!) [|Rhetorical Figures in Sound] -- Explains uses of figures like allusion, apostrophe, etc. in speeches