Monthly Archives: November 2021

Week 15

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Week 15: 2 days before Thanksgiving where no one wants to do anything but we have to come to school anyway

Speech: 

  • Eye contact activity
  • Email Borg a draft of your outline before break
  • Persuasive Speeches Monday 11/29 – Friday 12/03 Outlines & Slides Due Monday 11/29 for all speeches (folks who go later in the week can adjust slide decks, but email me what you have on Monday so I can queue them up and put them in order)
  • Read the following over Thanksgiving Break & take notes:
    • Chapter 17 (Special Occasion Speaking – after Persuasive for folks who choose this option for speech 4)
    • Chapter 8 (Outlining Speeches)
    • Review Chapter 10 (Delivering Your Speech – Impromptu – for final exam time for folks who choose this option for speech 4)

English 101:

  • Watch Banquo’s ghost ruin Macbeth’s dinner party!! (Best cliffhanger ever!)
  • Seminar over Acts 2 & 3 – read Act 4 in class & finish Acts 4-5 over break.
  • We’ll finish the film after break & watch 2 other versions: Scotland, PA & Throne of Blood
  • Think about what you want to write your literary analysis on
  • Personal Statements due Sunday 11/28

Week 14

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Speech:

  • Email Borg your chapter reading notes if you took notes on a Google doc. Otherwise she’ll check in class on Monday prior to the reading quiz (chapters 13, 15, 16).
  • Respond to email re: persuasive topics. Not all topics met requirements for persuasive speeches. 
  • Conduct preliminary research on persuasive speeches (5-7 credible sources required + works cited with outline due 11/29 the first day of speeches)
  • Go over:
    • persuasive content
    • fallacies
    • pathos, ethos, logos,
    • problem-cause-solution, Monroe’s Motivated sequence

English 101

Persuasive Speech 2021

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Compose and present a 7-10 minute persuasive speech.

Use this Persuasive Rubric 2021 to assess yourself for your reflection.

  1. Step One: Email Borger 1-2 possible topics for your persuasive speech.
    1. If you are continuing to work with the topic from your informative, give Borger your persuasive slant for the issue you will tackle in the next speech.
    2. See D2L for instructions & deadlines. .
  2. Step Two: Research.
    1. You do not have to create an annotated bibliography for this speech; however you do have to include a typed works cited page with your typed outline  – all outlines are due on the first speaking day.
    2. You should have 5-7 sources for this speech. If you are working with the same topic, you already have 3-5 sources you could possibly use. Build on what you have or start over.
    3. Don’t forget that you can use the JALC Library Database and can ask Mrs. McBride for assistance.
  3. Step Three: Read your textbook:
    1. Persuasion:
      1. Argument, Reasoning, and Evidence: Chapter 13 AVOID FALLACIES
      2. Persuasive Speaking: Chapter 15 & 16. Pay attention to what you can and can’t accomplish in a 7-10 minute speech.
      3. Bring reading notes to class on Monday 11/15 for quiz grades.
    2. Review Analyzing the Audience: Chapter 3. Consider conducting a survey to get audience members’ attitudes on your topic or position.
    3. Review Organizational Patterns: Chapter 8 (pgs. 152-155 = problem/solution or Monroe’s Motivated Sequence are good for persuasion)
    4. Review Presentation Aids: Chapter 11 Presentation aids are mandatory.  Try to use a different type of aid for the Persuasive Speech than you used for your Informative Speech.  
    5. View a few sample speeches. Pay attention to their organizational structure: clear preview statements, final summaries, and oral citations of sources:
      1. “Put the Brakes on Teenage Driving” COM212, 2009
      2. Olivia Shoemaker Nationals 2017 Winner Extemp: “What Can Be Done to Alleviate Venezuela’s Economic Crisis?”
      3. Vinay Nayak NFL Speech Winner in Original Oratory in 2011: “A Sensitive Kind of Guy”
      4. Nader Helmy NFL Speech Winner in Original Oratory in 2012
      5. Aekta Mouli 2015 National Speech and Debate Association Final Round of Original Oratory: “Team Humanity” 
      6. Tyler Ross IHSA Extemporaneous Speech champion in 2013 (note: this event requires students to compose and memorize these speeches in under an hour from files of data they bring with them to the competitions)
      7. Taylor Campbell National Championship Winner in Original Oratory in 2011: “All That is Required for Evil to Prevail”
      8. Arts in School, College Persuasion Speech Competition, EIU, 2011
  4. Step Four: Conference with Borger
  5. Step Five: Compose your speech outline / notes.
    1. YOU MUST SPEAK & SUBMIT A FRAGMENT OUTLINE – NOT READ A WORD-FOR-WORD SCRIPT FOR THIS SPEECH
    2. Use the sample speech outline template from informative speeches.
    3. Check out the Purdue OWL site for information on Outlining
    4. Check out a PDF of outline samples from the Purdue OWL.  I think full sentence outlines work the best for extemporaneous speaking.  You should have your quotes and citations included in outlines.
  6. Step Six: Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, revise, revise, rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, revise, rehearse…you get the idea.
  7. Step Seven: Present your persuasive speech. Persuasive speeches will be 7-10 minutes. Speaking order TBA. Speeches will be delivered IMMEDIATELY AFTER THANKSGIVING BREAK: 11/29 -12/03
    1. All speeches must have a presentation aid (slide decks / video emailed to Borg by Monday 11/29 – regardless of your speaking day)
    2. All speeches must have an outline submitted by 11/29 (regardless of your speaking day)
  8. Step Eight: Compose a self-reflection & grade yourself.

Week 13

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Speech

Finish Informative Speeches

Speech 3 Reflections Due Friday 11/19

  • Check email – I attempted to send video links to about 1/2 of the class so you can review your speeches on your own.
  • Folks who didn’t receive one will need to watch their speeches on my laptop in class Tues. & Wed. or before / after school.
  • Remember to grade yourself as well as reflect.

Discussion Post Due Friday 11/19 – see the discussion post in D2L for details

Readings in Text: Due by Monday 11/15 – take notes as you read

  • Chapter 13 (Argument, Reasoning, Evidence)
  • Chapter 15 (Foundations of Persuasive Speaking)
  • Chapter 16 (Persuasive Speaking Strategies)

Future Readings in Text for Final Speeches (due after Thanksgiving):

  • Chapter 17 (Special Occasion Speaking)
  • Chapter 8 (Outlining Speeches)
  • Review Chapter 10 (Delivering Your Speech – Impromptu)

English 101

Start Macbeth – we will be reading some in class, but some reading will be homework. You can read online or you an borrow a print text for reading at home.

Quote & Citation Explanation
“For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name—
Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valor’s minion carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave;
Which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
Till he unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops,
And fixed his head upon our battlements” (1.2.16-23).		 This quote is delivered to King Duncan and is the first time we “see” what Macbeth is capable of. Duncan’s army was overrun and outnumbered by Macdonwald’s army. Macbeth’s & Macdonwald’s forces were struggling. Even though outnumbered, Macbeth “carved a passage” through bodies on the battlefield until he faced Macdonwald. In front of everyone, Macbeth brutally guts Macdonwald – literally sticking his sword in Macdonwald’s stomach and cutting him in half all the way up to his jaw: “from the nave to th’ chops,” then decapitates Macdonwald and puts his head on their battlements like a trophy.

We know Macbeth is brutal before we even meet him and are glad he’s on “our” side.

Week 12

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English 101:

  • Discuss scholarships & college / post-high school prep
  • Seminar over “Mistakes” & “Helicopter Parenting” articles
  • SGID: Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (Thursday)

Speech: 

Informative Speeches: Wednesday 11/03-Monday 11/08

Wednesday 11/03

Topic

1. Micayah

Radium Girls

2. Natalie

Foster Care

3. Logan

Early Roman Emperors

4. Keegan              

History of Punk 

 

 

Thursday 11/04

 

5. Kyleigh H.– Live via Google Meets

Bigfoot

6. Anna 

Cats

7. Derek

Hunting

8. Caden B.

Winter 

 

 

Friday 11/05

 

9. Taylor

Cosmetics

10. Desaray

History of Denim

11. Madison K.

Sprint Car

 

 

Monday 11/08

 

12. Brock

Defensive End Football

13. Heath 

Quarterback 

14. Caden C.

Baseball

15. Kalli       

Running