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Unit Summary:
Unit Summary: In this unit, we will be learning about public speaking. Students will begin by considering what they already know about speeches.
Next, students will study and analyze famous historical speeches to investigate what makes a speech effective. This will include not only the
methods of speech delivery, but also rhetorical devices and rhetorical appeals. After this, students will workshop how to write an argument for a
speech. Students will then demonstrate their knowledge by writing their own speeches on the topic of their choosing, after which they will engage
in a digital peer review group workshop of this written work. The grand finale of the unit will be the delivery of our speeches: instead of delivering
them in person for the class, we will create online presentations in which we use images, videos, or other media to supplement our presentation
and make it creative, innovative, and captivating.
Assessment Plan:
• Entry-Level: Quick-write on "I Have a Formative: Summative:
Dream" by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. • Guided Lecture Notes • Final Written Copy of Student's Speech
• Quiz: Rhetorical Devices, Individual • Creative Digital Recording of Student's
Communication Skills, and Monroe's Speech
Motivated Sequence
• Mind-Map: Local, Country-wide, and
Global Issues for Speech Topics
• Graphic Organizer: Monroe's
Motivated Sequence and Speech-
Writing
• Argument Workshop Exercise
• Speech Draft
• Peer Review Responses
Lesson 1 (Teacher Lecture)
Student Learning Acceptable Lesson Activities: Teacher will lecture on Monroe’s Motivated Sequence (attention, need,
Objectives: Evidence satisfaction, visualization, action) and basic communication skills necessary for public
Students will be (Assessments): speaking (Enunciation, Volume, Rate, Pitch, Body Language, Gestures, Eye Contact,
able to identify Accurately Response to Audience).
the five steps of completed Students will fill out guided notes based on teacher lecture by filling in missing information
Monroe’s guided notes on the guided notes handout and responding to all questions.
Motivated worksheet Guided notes include a graphic organizer of Monroe’s Motivated Sequence, Definitions of
Sequence and Quiz the aforementioned communication skills, and the following questions:
understand their
purpose. Persuasive Speech
Students will be Persuasive speech is meant to persuade the audience to ___________, ______________,
able to or ___________. It differs from expository speech which is meant solely to inform and
demonstrate doesn’t ______________________.
their understand Making Connections:
of the Can you give an example of another persuasive speech? What was the goal of this speech?
communication What kind of persuasive speech would you write to affect change in your community or the
skills necessary world?
for public
speaking by
writing/sharing Clarification question:
their own opinion Sometimes speakers will open a speech with an anecdote as their “attention grabber.”
on which skill is Why might this be an effective way to open a speech?
most important.
Viewpoint Question:
What do you think is the most important communication skill in public speaking? Why?