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=== Speeches (210 total points / 70% of your final grade) === This course focuses on preparing and performing speeches. We start off with existing speeches, to help you practice good performance. We then focus on impromptu speaking, working within a rigid structure. Moving into narratives, you expand your abilities to describe things in rich and evocative detail. Finally, we conclude with the advocacy speech that brings together the performance, narrative, and argumentative elements we have been working on. ==== Introduction (< 2 minute speech) ==== We all have certain stories about ourselves that we love to tell. Others get to know us a little bit better when you tell a story about yourself. This assignment asks you to tell one of your favorite stories from your personal history. It can be a funny or serious story; all that matters is that you have told this story many times before. You simply need to tell this story to your classmates. What is different is that you must conclude your story with some type of moral or lesson (e.g. “And that was when I truly learned that you never want to give your car keys to an angry bear” or “So, it is true what they say, ‘a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”). ==== [[Public Speaking (Summer 2019)/Impromptu Speech|Impromptu]] (6 minutes of preparation followed by a 4-5 minute speech) ==== Impromptu speaking reinforces all aspects of good public speaking: quick thinking, sound argumentation, strategic word choice, and engaged delivery. On the day you are assigned to speak, you will draw two thesis statements from an envelope. Selecting one of them, you will go into the hallway for six minutes to prepare. You will then return to the room and deliver a four to five minute speech supporting or opposing the thesis. Evaluations of your speech will focus on the strength of the arguments, the clarity of the arrangement, and the effectiveness of the delivery. Please see the assignment description for a detailed list of the requirements. ==== [[Public Speaking (Summer 2019)/Commemorative Speech|Commemorative]] (5-7 minute speech) ==== Your goal in the commemorative speech is to praise a person, organization, or event. Your speech will use rich, stylistic language to link your topic to values. Evaluations of your speech will focus how the clarity of the core values, the strength of the evidence and narratives, the eloquence of the style, and the appropriateness of the delivery. Please see the assignment description for a detailed list of the requirements ==== [[Public Speaking (Summer 2019)/Advocacy Speech|Advocacy]] (5-7 minute speech) ==== Your goal in the advocacy speech is to motivate uninformed and/or apathetic members of your audience to take some form of action. This speech round will be held in an outdoor public location to allow us to work on delivery and audience engagement. Evaluations of your speech will focus on the capacity of the arguments and style to move members of your audience to take action, the appropriateness of the arrangement, and the effectiveness of the delivery. Please see the assignment description for a detailed list of the requirements.
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