Friday, February 26, 2010

Monday, March 1st

What does an effective speaker look like? What traits do they exemplify?

What does an ineffective speaker look like? Explain.

Presentation skills... YOUTUBE

Attention Getters, Notecards (what they should look like.) Visuals (when to show them.)

Monday, March 1st

Monday, March 1st-Friday, March 5th

Informative Speech

Begin researching your informative speech. You may choose any school appropriate topic. You are INFORMING us about a person, place, or thing.

3 paragraphs.

Intro: Attention Getter, thoughts, thesis sentence (sums up your entire speech.)
Body: Interesting info. about your topic.
Conclusion: Touch on your attention getter again, end with memorable statements!

Visual: Picture, video, song, show and tell, etc.

2 minute speech. Minimum!!!!!!!!!
Note cards ONLY

Monday: Overview of good speeches, bad, fillers, attention getters, etc.
Tuesday: Research
Wednesday: TAKS
Thursday: Put speech together, organize
Friday: time speech, etc.

Begin Speeches on Monday, March 8th-11th

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Feb. 24th

Chapter 5- Nonverbal communication and charades.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Wed., Feb. 10

1. Complete commercials, and brochures.
2. Chapters 1-3 TEST.

Looking ahead: Thursday, Friday

Begin Chapter 4!
1. Handout
2. Idioms, Tongue Twisters
3. Miss Teen South Carolina, "UH" count, Bush twisters
4. Pink Panther-Youtube "Hamburger"

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Tuesday, Feb. 9

Presentation day!

Introduce brochure and show commercial!

You will be graded on:
1. Delivery of product (presentation skills) Lack of ums, etc.
2. Prepared when called upon. Brochure printed, and commercial ready.
3. Brochure (easy to follow, read, and understand.)
4. Commercial (Makes sense, sells product, and flows easily.)

Monday, February 8, 2010

Monday, Feb. 8th

1. Group Evaluation
2. Edit Commercial
3. Print Brochure

Presentations begin Tuesday, Feb. 9th.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Wednesday, Feb. 3rd

Perception of Beauty: Dove commercial, Tyra Banks, etc.

American Inventor: Development of invention
1. Phase One: Create a Product
2. Phase Two: Create a Sales Brochure
3. Phase Three: Create a Sales Talk (Taped Commercial)

Video and brochure ready by Tuesday, Feb. 9th.

Looking ahead.... Friday, Feb. 5th: Chapters 1-3 TEST