Tuesday, September 23, 2014

03 Persuasive Speech to your School // Due the week of Sept. 30, 2014

Hi Everyone!

Good job on the Socratic Seminars this last week!

Next week, you will be performing persuasive speeches!

  • For your speech, you will be speaking to the "school board" of your school (just our class), and trying to convince them to add a special class of your choice to the school. 
    • Example classes you could choose might be:
      • Engineering
      • First Aid and Medicine
      • Technology
      • Wood-Working
      • Magic
      • Video Game Design
      • Home Economics
      • Etc
  • Your speech should be extemporaneous, meaning you:
    • Write an outline
    • Speak freely and conversationally using the outline as a guide
    • Do not:
      • Memorize your speech word for word
      • Read your speech word for word from a piece of paper
      • Come up with the speech off the top of your head
  • Your outline should have the general following organization:
    • Introduction
      • Attention Grabber
      • Statement of your opinion
    • Reason 1 for your opinion
      • Evidence
    • Reason 2 for your opinion
      • Evidence
    • Reason 3 for your opinion
      • Evidence
    • Reason # for your opinion (as many reasons as you'd like to add)
      • Evidence
    • Conclusion
  • Your speech must be between 3-5 minutes. You will be counted off for going below or over that time, so practice, practice, practice!
Let me know if you have any questions!

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