Speech Writing Assignment

OVERAL CURRICULUM EXPECTATIONS

Oral Communication
2. Speaking to Communicate: use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes
3. Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most
helpful in oral communication situations.

Writing
1. Developing and Organizing Content: generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience;
2. Using Knowledge of Form and Style: draft and revise their writing, using a variety of literary, informational, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for
the purpose and audience;
3. Applying Knowledge of Conventions: use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors,
refine expression, and present their work effectively;

Media
3. Creating Media Texts: create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques;
Each student will write and record a speech on the topic of their choosing,
paying close attention to the elements of speech researched in class.
Completion Checklist
Planning Package
Essay Structure Note and Decision Chart
KWL Chart
Rough Draft (hand written or typed)
Personal Editing and Revisions (evident on rough draft)
Peer Editing (each student must peer edit another students speech)
*you will be graded on the thoroughness of the feedback you provide
Oral Communication Feedback sheet
Typed Good Copy (MLA Formatting)
Works Cited List (MLA Formatting)
Audacity Sound Recording (submitted to online hand-in folder)
Metacognitive Reflection Form (Oral Communication)

Success Checklist
Submit all portions requested above

ORAL
effective reading of speech (tone, volume, pace, pronunciation, enunciation)
properly chosen speech structure
Rhetorical Devices are advanced
Topic, Exigence, Purpose and Audience are clearly defined throughout the text
Demonstrate a thorough understanding of strengths weaknesses and areas of improvement
WRITING
Speech formatting well executed
Arguments are advanced and thoroughly defended
Speech is highly cohesive: purpose, audience, tone, devices, exigence are unified
Tone of voice is evident throughout entire text and is highly suitable to purpose and audience
Sentence Structure are varied and advanced
Sentence Structures are utilized strategically to suit specific content and purposes throughout the writing
Diction is highly suitable to topic and audience
Spelling is impeccable
Vocabulary is varied and sophisticated
Major revisions are thorough and evident in process work as well as peer editing
Works Cited list properly formatted
Rough work sheets are thoroughly utilized
MEDIA
Student demonstrates a superior understanding of the Audacity sound recording software (add music,
sound effects, etc. to set the tone for Level 4)
RUBRIC
4 3 2 1 R
Knowledge

O 2.3





W 3.7





W 1.3


Student has chosen the
speech structure that is
highly suitable to exigence
and purpose

Organization and structure
of paragraphs represent a
thorough understanding of
speech formatting

Works Cited List
demonstrates a thorough
understanding of MLA
Formatting

Student has chosen the
speech structure that is
suitable to exigence
and purpose

Organization and
structure of paragraphs
represent a good
understanding of
speech formatting

Works Cited List
demonstrates a good
understanding of MLA
Formatting

Student has chosen the
speech structure that is
somewhat suitable to
exigence and purpose

Organization and
structure of paragraphs
represent an adequate
understanding of speech
formatting

Works Cited List
demonstrated an
adequate understanding
of MLA Formatting

Student has chosen the
speech structure that
lacks suitability to
exigence and purpose

Organization and
structure of paragraphs
represent a limited
understanding of speech
formatting

Works Cited List
demonstrated a limited
understanding of MLA
Formatting


Speech structure
is not evident


Paragraph
organization and
structure confuse
meaning


Works Cited is not
provided
Thinking

W 1.5



O 2.4



O 2.1



W 1.2

Arguments are advanced
and thoroughly defended


Rhetorical Devices are
sophisticated, unique and
advanced

Topic, Exigence, Purpose
and Audience are clear and
advanced

Student has thoroughly
utilized rough work sheets
to generate ideas for their
final speech
Good arguments are
provided that are well
defended


Rhetorical Devices are
unique and advanced


Topic, Exigence,
Purpose and Audience
are clear

Student has utilized
rough work sheets to
generate ideas for their
final speech

Good arguments are
provided that are
adequately defended

Rhetorical Devices are
adequate but simplistic

Topic, Exigence, Purpose
and Audience are
displayed adequately

Student has utilized some
rough work sheets to
generate ideas for their
final speech
Limited arguments are
provided that are barely
defended

Rhetorical Devices are
limited and clichd

Topic, Exigence, Purpose
and Audience are
displayed inadequately

Student has utilized
limited rough work sheets
to generate ideas for
their final speech
No arguments are
provided or they
are unclear


Rhetorical devices
are not evident


Topic, Exigence,
Purpose and
Audience are not
evident

Rough work was
not utilized
Communication

O 2.5




W 3.4



W 2.2




W 2.3


W 3.1


W 3.2

Student communicates well
orally, using advanced
tone, pace, volume,
enunciation, and
pronunciation

Sentence Structures are
varied and sophisticated


Tone of voice is evident
throughout entire text and
is highly effective


Diction is highly suitable to
topic and audience

Spelling is impeccable

Vocabulary is varied and
sophisticated
Student communicates
well orally, using good
tone, pace, volume,
enunciation, and
pronunciation

Sentence Structures
are varied and
advanced

Tone of voice is evident
throughout text and is
effective


Diction is suitable to
topic and audience


Spelling is advanced

Vocabulary is varied
and advanced
Student communicates
adequately orally, using
good tone, pace, volume,
enunciation, and
pronunciation

Sentence Structures are
adequately varied but not
advanced

Tone of voice is evident
throughout most of the
text and is somewhat
effective

Diction is somewhat
suitable to topic and
audience

Spelling is adequate

Vocabulary is adequately
varied and but not
advanced
Oral communication is
limited in the use of tone,
pace, volume,
enunciation, and
pronunciation

Sentence Structures
limited in variety and
quite simplistic in style

Tone of voice is limited
throughout text and lacks
effectiveness

Diction is limited
throughout text and lack
suitability to topic and
audience

Spelling is limited

Vocabulary lacks variety
and is limited in breadth
Lack of Oral
communication
skills confuses
meaning

Sentence
structures are
inaccurate


Tone of voice is
not evident

Use of diction is
not evident


Improper spelling
confuses meaning

Limited
vocabulary
confuses meaning
Application

W 1.4




W 1.5




W 2.4




M 3.4



O 3.1

Speech is highly cohesive:
purpose, audience, tone,
devices, exigence are
unified

Major revisions are
thorough and evident in
process work as well as
peer editing

Sentence Structures are
highly suitable to content
and add to effect

Student demonstrates a
superior understanding of
the Audacity sound
recording software

Student has demonstrated
an in-depth understanding
of strengths, weaknesses
and areas of improvement
in oral communication
Speech is cohesive:
purpose, audience,
tone, devices, exigence
are unified

Major revisions are
evident in process work
as well as peer editing

Sentence Structures
suit content and add to
effect

Student demonstrates
an advanced
understanding of the
Audacity sound
recording software

Student has
demonstrated a good
understanding of
strengths, weaknesses
and areas of
improvement in oral
communication

Speech is somewhat
cohesive: purpose,
audience, tone, devices,
exigence are somewhat
unified

Some revisions are
evident in process work as
well as peer editing

Sentence Structures
somewhat suit content
and add to effect

Student demonstrates an
adequate understanding
of the Audacity sound
recording software

Student has
demonstrated an
adequate understanding
of strengths, weaknesses
and areas of
improvement in oral
communication

Speech is somewhat
cohesive: purpose,
audience, tone, devices,
exigence lack unification

Limited revisions are
evident in process work
as well as peer editing

Sentence Structures lack
suitability to content and
do not add to effect

Student demonstrates
inadequate
understanding of the
Audacity sound recording
software

Student has
demonstrated a limited
understanding of
strengths, weaknesses
and areas of
improvement in oral
communication

Speech lacks
cohesiveness



No revisions or
peer editing were
completed

Sentence
structures are not
varied to suit
content or add
effect

No sound
recording is
provided

Strengths,
weaknesses and
areas of
improvement
have not been
defined