Thursday, May 23, 2013

New Media Presentations

Agenda:
-Party Quirks
-Notes on Modern Presentation Aids
-An overview of Prezi + example presentation
-Workshop

  • Create a Prezi Account
  • Choose a current event
  • Read 3 articles on said event
  • Synthesize the information into a Prezi
Homework:
-Complete Prezi for Wednesday's class

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Presentation Aids: Presentation Day I

Agenda:
-Acting Exercise: What are you doing?
-Speeches: Using traditional aids

Homework:
-Create a Prezi account for use tomorrow

Monday, May 20, 2013

Theme-Song Improv

Agenda:
-Bell Work: Write about a random noun (person, place, or thing).  Be as detailed as you can--these will be presented during class.
-Speeches: Theme song improv--Give your description using an appropriate tone given the background music played during your speech.  Songs may be changed throughout your speech.

Homework:
-Be prepared to give your speech (or at least part of it) using your traditional presentation aid on Wednesday

Friday, May 17, 2013

Workshop: Traditional Presentation Aids

Agenda:
-Work on your packet to plan your presentation aid
-Create a draft of your presentation aid
-Review the second recording of your children's story

Homework:
-Complete the packet and draft if you did not finish in class
-Choose a school-appropriate song for Monday
-Your presentation aid + presentation using it will be due Wednesday

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Presentation Aids and Traditional Media

Agenda:
-Presentation Aids Slideshow (pick two that you think you might use in your presentation)
-Types of Traditional Media

-Guidelines for use

Homework:
-Decide on 2 presentation aids and the media through which you will present it

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Acting Exercise + Day II Re-recording

Agenda:
-Acting Warm-up: Murder Mystery

  • Remember to work on your gestures!
-Recordings II

Homework:
-Bring in a speech that you gave or a school-appropriate set of song lyrics for which to create a presentation aid

Monday, May 13, 2013

Re-presentations

Agenda:
-Mood Mirrors
-Presentation of children's story (second attempt)

Homework:
-If you did not present today, be ready to go tomorrow

Friday, May 10, 2013

Presentation Day

Today we are presenting our research-based speeches!

Homework:
-Extra Credit due by Monday at the latest!

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Embodying Emotion

Agenda:
-Emotion Charades
-Partners in Attitude Acting

Homework:
-Be prepared to practice your speech tomorrow
-Be prepared to re-record your speech on Monday

Monday, May 6, 2013

Tape Reviews

Agenda:
-Hand in outlines
-Review of Rubric (Friday's Speech)
-Watch your children's story + give initial review

Homework:
-Bring book for Wed.
-Continue to prepare for Friday's presentations

Friday, May 3, 2013

Writing a Solid Conclusion

Agenda:
-Get handouts ready from yesterday
-Conclusion Notes
-Workshop: Outline + Conclusion

Homework:
-Outline is due on Monday with full outline and conclusion

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Outline: Writing a Successful Introduction

Agenda:
-Progress Report Updates
-Notes: Putting together an introduction

  • Hook
  • Establish Ethos
  • Preview of Body (includes thesis)
-Workshop--Body and full intro

Homework:
-Be prepared to finish the outline in class tomorrow

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Story Presentations + Observations

Agenda:
-Presentations
-Notes on Outlines
-Handout sample outlines

Homework:
-Bring in the items that you will need to work on your outlines in class tomorrow

Monday, April 29, 2013

Children's Story Presentations

Agenda:
-Review of another sample story/what makes a good storyteller
-Telling our chosen tales + taping for our personal reviews
-Time Remaining: Work on your supporting information sheet (you may have to finish your source notes if you have yet to complete those)

Homework:
-Supporting Info Notes (due Wed.)
-Wednesday agenda: Outlining

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Workshop: May 6th Speech

Agenda:
-Score Reports
-What will your final speech look like?
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073534196/student_view0/student_speech_videos.html#View

-Supporting Information Worksheet (see previous post)

  • You need to finish your web evaluations and notes before doing this

Homework:
-Bring children's book for tomorrow
-Be prepared to present the book on Monday
-Finish the supporting information worksheet for Wednesday




Choosing Supporting Information for Your Speech


Gathering Supporting Material for Our Speeches

 Copy this into a Google Doc and answer the questions.  You will need to choose one of each type of supporting material from your sources to include in your final speech.  (This means that you need to have already finished your notes on your sources.  These were due when you got back from break.)  You may need to refer back to the class handouts on each type of supporting material to help you to answer the questions.

1.       Facts and Statistics
a.       What is the fact/stat?
b.      Do you need it to be general or precise for your audience?
c.       Does it meet the 4 Rs (relevant, representative, recent, reliable)?
d.      What citation information do you need for this source (look back at what you typed in your notes)?
2.      Testimony
a.       What information is stated in the testimony?
b.      Which type of testimony is it?
c.       Will you provide a direct quote, or will you paraphrase?
d.      What citation information do you need for this source (look back at what you typed in your notes)?
3.      Example
a.       What information is stated in the example?
b.      Which type of example is it?  Why does this type suit your needs?
c.       What colorful/vivid details can you include?
d.      Do you include concrete details (names, times, places, etc.)
e.       What citation information do you need for this source (look back at what you typed in your notes)?
4.      Narrative (Remember, that unlike an example, this is set up as a story)
a.       What information is being told through the narrative?
b.      What are your prologue, plot, and epilogue?
c.       Is there dialogue you can include?
d.      Does this narrative fit with the purpose of your whole speech?
e.       What citation information do you need for this source (look back at what you typed in your notes)?

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Captivating an Audience

Agenda:
-When to use which types of supporting ideas
-Storytelling Tips
-Analysis of Professional Storytelling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-BBplb7TnM
-Story Survey

Story title?
  1. Which part of the story will you focus on in your three minute presentation?
  2. Are there any words that you do not recognize?  List them here.  Look up their pronunciation, and write that out here.
  3. Which characters are in your story?  What type of voice will you use when they are speaking?
  4. Are there any key sections of your text during which you will need to make eye contact with your audience?  Which section is this?
Homework:
-Decide on a story for tomorrow
-Make sure that you have kept up with your paper research so that you will be able to continue work in class tomorrow

Monday, April 22, 2013

Supporting Your Ideas: Examples and Narratives

Agenda:
-Bell Work: Hand in work from break
-Supporting Your Ideas Notes: Examples and Narratives
-Reading: "Acres of Diamonds"

  • Circle or underline examples and narratives
  • Label the type of example or narrative
  • Note whether or not you think that it is used effectively

Homework:
-Finish analysis
-Choose your favorite children's story, and be prepared to share it on Wednesday.

Friday, April 12, 2013

Testimonial Examples

Agenda:
-Testimonial Sheet Review
-Speech Analysis

  • Find five examples of facts or statistics
    • Is it general or precise?
    • What is its context of use?
    • Use the 4 Rs to determine whether or not this fact or stat is used effectively.
  • Find three examples of testimonials
    • Which type of testimonial is it?
    • Is it a direct quote, or is it paraphrased?
    • Is it used appropriately? (Check the use guidelines).

Homework:
-Finish your speech analysis (these are due Monday.  No late speeche analyses will be accepted).  
-Notes on your four sources are due on Monday if you did not hand them in today

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Fire Day

Agenda:
-Review of the rest of facts/stats
-Speech Analysis Directions


Homework:
-Notes on your four sources are due on Friday.  If you know you are not going to be here, you need to e-mail or share them with me before break so that they will not be considered late.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Facts and Statistics to Support our Ideas (TBC)

Agenda:
-Discussion of how notes are to be taken for this class

  • Google Docs or paper
  • Refer to handout for what information you need from each source
  • Remember that you need to cite the sources that you use verbally!
-Supporting your ideas: facts and statistics
  • Building a context
  • General v. specific facts

....today's activities will be continued tomorrow due to the unexpected field trip interruption.  


Homework:
-Notes for all four sources due Friday
(If your source was not credible according to your analysis, you may have to find an additional source)

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Evaluating Sources

Agenda:
-Review of what we know
-Group Practice: Advocacy v. Information Sites
-Independent Practice with chosen sources
-Library Visit for book source

Homework:
-Complete sheet for sources

Friday, April 5, 2013

Researching our Topics

Agenda:
-Research Overview

  • Finding a general encyclopedia article
  • Using the article to find key terms
  • Using the article to find additional resources
-Internet Research
  • Search Engines
  • Online Directories
  • Library Resources

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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Review Day

Catch-up day for the completion of missing work.

Semester 3 Extra Credit Assignment

The following is the text of the letter regarding the extra credit assignment.

February 26, 2013

...
You may be aware that Green Mountain Power is holding a contest called the Vermont Writers' Prize.  Entries can be sent anytime before November 1st.  The theme is "Vermont--Its People, the Place, Its History or Its Values," and the prize is $1500.  The winning entry will be in VERMONT MAGAZINE in the March/April edition.  Entries can be essays, short stories, or poems and cannot exceed 1500 words.  Send to Vermont Writers' Prize c/o Green Mountain Power, 163 Acorn Lane, Colchester, VT, 05446.

Enclosed is my entry which deals with my hometown of Proctor.  I thought that some of your teachers or students might be interested (and perhaps submit their own entries).

Sincerely,

Ray Pentkowski


(If you would like to see the sample entry, please get a paper copy of the contest details from class).

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Refining Specific Purpose/Our Knowledge of the Topic

Agenda:
-Sharing and critiquing specific purpose
-Survey: What do you already know about your topic
-Quiz Review



Homework:
-Extra credit and all make-up work is due Friday

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Improv Day II

Agenda:
-Breakdown of previous exercise
-Salesman Exercise


Homework:
-Complete the brainstorming steps for a topic area of your choice

Friday, March 29, 2013

Improv

Agenda:
-What is Improv?
-Whose Line Clips
-Writing our own scenarios
-Acting them out +suggestions

Homework:
-Be aware that grades close next Friday

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Final Brainstorming Steps

Agenda:
-Action Plan for Progress Reports
-Brainstorming: Media and Internet Prompts
-Topic Exploration: Mind Mapping and Topic Analysis to narrow down your topic into something manageable
-Refining your topic

  • General Purpose
  • Specific Purpose & testing your specific purpose
  • Thesis
Homework:
-You will be expected to do the steps from Topic Exploration through Creating a Thesis on a topic you plan to explore for Monday

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Audience Quiz

Agenda:
-Study
-Quiz
-Workshop: Finish up strategies to find a topic

Homework:
-Complete the strategies that you do not finish in class

Monday, March 25, 2013

Finding a Topic Area

Agenda:
-Brainstorming
-Interest Charts
-Information about upcoming quiz

Homework:
Study for Wednesday's Quiz
-4 components of ethos
-demographics + why each aspect is important to know
-audience dynamics + how to write appropriate survey questions


Friday, March 22, 2013

Maslow's Hierarchy in Advertising

Agenda:
-Review of yesterday's class
-Video Analysis

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K8DKH7tCRU
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgHxzLIkf-o
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmFvRH1Uz7o
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORmxCXmiIy4
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00M7CojclWM
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlQnuB9dc48
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIUcNLTsyYo
  • To whom would these videos appeal?
  • Which level of the hierarchy does each ad feed into?

Homework:
-None unless you did not complete your scenario
-You should start studying for Wednesday's quiz

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Audience Dynamics

Agenda:
-Notes on Audience Dynamics
-Gathering Audience Dynamics

  • Survey Guidelines
  • Sample Survey Question Analysis
  • Survey Creation
-Notes on Motivation
  • Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
  • Translating these into aspects of speeches

Homework:
-Scenarios are due Tomorrow


Monday, March 18, 2013

Demographics of an Unknown Audience

Agenda:
-Hand in Homework
-Review of audience demographics
-Audience Demographics Assignment (due Fri, workshop time today and Wednesday)

Homework:
-Steps 2 & 3 of the assignment if you have not gotten this far already

PS Scenarios


  1. You have been asked to speak to a Community Club at a high school in Mesquite, TX about immigration.  Stance: You are explaining why it is important to welcome newcomers to the country.
  2. You are giving a speech to a UCLA audience that falls into an age group known as "Millenials."  You are trying to persuade this group to support a radical Health Care Bill that would restructure much of the existing system.  
  3. You are on the campaign trail for a conservative presidential hopeful in Mandaree, ND.  Your suportee is interested in hearing from the people, but in his earlier days as a senator, he was known to support treaty-breaking government activities.
  4. You are giving a speech about loosening gun control to an urban population of mixed ages in Rochester, NY.  The last time you gave this speech was when you were visiting a rural audience in NC.
  5. You are speaking to a retirement community in FL on the behalf of a nearby pharmacy, one which serves most of the community's population.  Due to recent budget cuts, you have to break the news that a popular medical package no longer will be offered.  As an employee of the pharmacy, your job is to avoid loosing customers.  
  6. You are giving a speech to a ladies' book club in Minnesota in an attempt to sell a set of encyclopedias.  The proceeds benefit soldiers overseas.  You recently found out that one of the book club's members lost her son in the war.
  7. You are giving a speech to small business owners on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, PA.  You are campaigning for a politician who wants to increase tourism to this area just outside of the city.  This politician plans to achieve this through an ad campaign supported by tax increases.  

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Presentation Make-up and Demographics Con't

Agenda:
-Presentations
-Continue workshop from Monday


Homework:
-Complete worksheet if not yet finished

Monday, March 11, 2013

Audience Demographics Notes & Worksheet



Name:
Public Speaking
Ms. Hoffmann
Date:
Audience Analysis: Demographics

You need to reach your audience in order for your speech to make an impact.  In order to reach your audience, you need to know some things about the people who are in it.

Audience Demographics—Observable characteristics of listeners, including age, gender, educational level, group affiliations, and sociocultural background. 

1.      Age—Since Aristotle, age has been used to predict audience reactions.  He suggested that young listeners are “pleasure-loving, optimistic, impulsive, trusting, idealistic, and easily persuaded”  while older listeners “are more set in their ways, more skeptical, cynical, and concerned with maintaining a comfortable existence.”  Today’s observations of age as a factor related to audiences remain the same.

2.      Gender—This category is trickier than age.  Unlike age, assumptions related to gender are changing rapidly.  While gender is important to consider, it is important not to overgeneralize or to perpetuate gender stereotypes in your speeches. 

3.      Educational Level—This category can help you to determine how knowledgeable and/or interested your audience may be in your topic.  For example, better-educated audiences generally are more interested in social, consumer, political, and environmental issues.  They also tend to be more curious and open-minded.  However, better-educated audiences also require better supporting information and are more likely to be aware of multiple viewpoints. 

4.      Group Affiliations—These reflect people’s interests, attitudes and values.  Knowing this can help you to understand how you need to craft your speech both so that your message is relevant to your audience and so that you can promote identification between yourself and your audience. 
a.      Occupational Groups—Jobs that your audience has or aspires to attain. 
                                                              i.      Language to use
                                                            ii.      Interesting aspects of a topic
                                                          iii.      What it will find to be credible evidence


b.      Political Groups
                                                              i.      Preferences
                                                            ii.      How interested in it
                                                          iii.      Positive and negative trigger words
c.       Religious Groups—Formal groups and general beliefs to which an audience ascribes.  These underlie many social and cultural attitudes and values. 
                                                              i.      Specific beliefs/teaching of that group
                                                            ii.      Avoid stereotyping
d.      Social Groups—Groups that we choose on the basis of our interests. 
                                                              i.      Interesting aspects of a topic

5.      Sociocultural Background—A broad category that can include everything from the section of the country in which people live to their racial or ethnic identity to their economic status.
a.      Knowing the precise background can tell you
                                                              i.      Life Experiences
                                                            ii.      Interests
                                                          iii.      Viewpoints
b.      Tells you general details, but you may need to touch on specific subgroups as you go to make everyone feel included. 

**No matter what the composition of your audience is, you need to keep in mind that each member of it is a unique individual.  Although each person may fit in with the rest of the audience in most ways, there is still something that sets that person apart from the others. 

**You may change your presentation and some aspects of your speech depending upon who is in your audience, but you should not be changing your position. 

Sample Sites Containing Demographic Information—
·         Gallup Organization: www.gallup.com
·         National Opinion Research Center: www.norc.uchicago.edu
·         Roper Center for Public Opinion Research: www.ropercenter.uconn.edu
·         US Census Data: http://www.census.gov/
·         American Fact Finder: http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml
·         Things to Keep in Mind:
o   Be careful: National Polls are self-reported.
o   Provides you with tendencies, but you have to remember that your audience is made of unique individuals.   


Name:
Public Speaking
Ms. Hoffmann
Date:
Demographic Data

It is your turn to research demographic information about a potential audience.  You will need to find some information for each of the five demographic categories reviewed in class.  You should use the websites mentioned in class to help you to answer the questions.  For the purpose of this first assignment, you will pretend that you are preparing a speech for citizens of Proctor.

1.       What is the age of this audience?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Link of source:

2.      How might this impact your speech?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________



3.      What is the gender of your audience?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Link of source:

4.      How might this impact your speech?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________




5.      What is the educational level of your audience?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Link of source:

6.      How might this impact your speech?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________



7.      What group affiliations does your audience have?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Link of source:

8.      How might this impact your speech?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________



9.      What is the sociocultural background of your audience?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Link of source:

10.  How might this impact your speech? 
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Audience Demographics

Agenda:
-How did presentations go?
-Audiences Journal

  • How might audiences vary?
  • What might you want to know about an audience before giving a speech?
-Handout Review
-Workshop--Demographic information from various sources on Proctor, VT/VT as a whole


Homework:
-None--we will continue working in class tomorrow

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Understanding your Audience: Demographic Exercise


Name:
Public Speaking
Ms. Hoffmann
Date:
Demographic Data

It is your turn to research demographic information about a potential audience.  You will need to find some information for each of the five demographic categories reviewed in class.  You should use the websites mentioned in class to help you to answer the questions.  For the purpose of this first assignment, you will pretend that you are preparing a speech for citizens of Proctor.

1.       What is the age of this audience?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Link of source:

2.      How might this impact your speech?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________



3.      What is the gender of your audience?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Link of source:

4.      How might this impact your speech?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________




5.      What is the educational level of your audience?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Link of source:

6.      How might this impact your speech?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________



7.      What group affiliations does your audience have?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Link of source:

8.      How might this impact your speech?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________



9.      What is the sociocultural background of your audience?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Link of source:

10.  How might this impact your speech?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________