speech

Homework Assignments: Week 21

Monday 1/30 Using your notecards, practice giving your entire speech. All students will deliver their entire speeches to the class tomorrow and Wednesday. This will be worth 20 points, so be sure to practice a lot.

Tuesday 1/31 Practice giving your speech. Work on speaking clearly, pausing, making eye contact, gesturing, and varying your intonation to add emphasis and meaning. Try not to rely on your note cards too much.

Wednesday 2/1 Finish practicing your speech. All students (except for those going to the Mock Trial Competition tomorrow) will deliver their speeches to the whole school tomorrow. Work hard because this performance is worth 100 points.

Thursday 2/2 No homework!! (Except Mock Trial students should practice their speeches).

Friday 2/3 Read in your IR book. If you’re reading more than one book, the first book test must be taken by next Friday, February 10th. All book tests must be taken by March 9th.

Old Assignments: Week 17 & 18

Week 20

Monday 1/23 Using your notecards, practice giving the first paragraph of your speech. Be sure that you can deliver the first paragraph smoothly and clearly (without needing to look down more than once or twice) by tomorrow. All students will deliver their first paragraphs to the class tomorrow.

Tuesday 1/24 Practice giving your speech. Be sure to know the first half of your speech by Friday.

Wednesday 1/25 Practice your speech. Work on speaking clearly, pausing, and varying your intonation to add emphasis and meaning.

Thursday 1/26 Continue practicing your speech. Make sure you know the first half of your speech by tomorrow. You will give the first half to the class tomorrow.

Friday 1/27 Keep practicing your speech. You need to know the whole speech by Tuesday. You will deliver your speech to a portion of the school on Thursday, February 2nd or Friday, February 3rd. Read in your IR book. If you’re reading more than one book, the first book test must be taken February 10th. All book tests must be taken by March 9th.

Week 19

Tuesday 1/17 Work on writing the final draft of your speech. Please use the writing notes and my comments to help your revise. Add power language and clear arguments. Due Thursday.

Wednesday 1/18 Finish writing the final draft of your speech. After you’ve made all your major changes, read your speech aloud and make any additional changes. Final drafts are due tomorrow.

Thursday 1/19 Finish your bibliography if you have not done so already.

Friday 1/20 Read in your IR book. If you’re reading more than one book, the first book test must be taken February 10th. All book tests must be taken by March 9th.

Week 18

Monday 1/9 Find, read, and annotate at least three more articles on your topic. Try using EBSCO. You should have about 10 articles total at this point, but be sure you’ve gathered all the information you need to start writing your speech tomorrow. Bring each article with your annotations to class tomorrow.

Tuesday 1/10 Work on writing the first draft of your speech. Be sure to have an interesting hook, about three main points, and though provoking conclusion. Look at the speech writing tips on the web page to help you. Due Thursday

Wednesday 1/11 Finish writing the first draft of your speech. Your speech should be about 2.5 to 5 pages. Get the length you want to write a good speech and to give you the length you want when you start practicing the delivery of your speech. First drafts are due tomorrow.

Thursday 1/12 Based on peer editing comments, the grading criteria, and your own ideas, write a second draft of your speech. Please hand in both drafts at the beginning of the period.

Friday 1/13 Read in your IR book. If you’re reading more than one book, the first book test must be taken during the first week of February. All book tests must be taken by the first week of March.

Week 17

Tuesday 1/3 Decide which topic you want to write your speech on: “What Could the America of Yesterday Teach the America of Tomorrow?” California or “Nuclear Power: Safe or Too Dangerous” Nevada. Finish reading The New York Times article on nuclear power or another long article on your topic. Read carefully and annotate. Bring in the article to class tomorrow.

Wednesday 1/4 Find, read, and annotate at least three more articles on your topic. Start looking on the New York Times website, or on EBSCO. See the links to the right to help you. Be sure to look at the reliability of each source before reading the article. Bring each article with your annotations to class tomorrow.

Thursday 1/5 Write up a brief description of your topic, your opinion, and your angle for the speech.

Friday 1/6 Read in your IR book. Make sure to read each weekend for an hour or so or to read about 15 minutes every day so that you don’t get behind at the end of the quarter. Continue thinking about your speech so that you can make an outline on Monday.