Speaking/ Grades 9-12

By: Jaaran Nesbitt
Date: May 1, 2001

National Standards:

Content Standard: The student will develop the skills to generate ideas, research topics, organize information, and preparefor oral presentations.

Goal Statement: Students throughout their lives will communicate within the family, in the workplace, and in society. Inorder to become a more effective communicator, students will prepare ideas in an organized format, speak clearly withconfidence and poise, and listen critically to others.

Learning Expectations:

Preparing

Identify the goals and purposes of oral presentation.
Adapt literary works for oral interpretation by individuals and/or groups.
Identify and define the elements of the communication process.
Create and/or adapt scripts for interpreters' theatre.
Analyze audience in order to develop suitable techniques and language for communicating effectively with the specific listeners.

Prepare original, oral, or published works for storytelling

Participate in effective group projects.
Conduct interviews for research purposes.
Utilize all available library/research facilities and document bibliographic information.
Analyze source material for reliability and validity.
Choose topics that are of interest to the speaker and are appropriate for the audience.
Identify and utilize the parts of a speech.
Develop effective, attention-getting introductions.
Organize information and ideas in a manner suitable to the topic and/or purpose.
Create a properly formatted outline.
Outline schedules for group discussions and/or meetings.
Recognize and use a variety of organizational patterns.
Employ effective rehearsal techniques.

Speaking

Demonstrate confidence and poise in various speaking situations.
Develop effective vocal control of rate, inflection, pitch, volume, quality, and articulation.
Identify articulation problems and understand how to correct them.
Adapt delivery to different environments and audiences.
Use gestures, vocal control, and body language.
Facilitate communication through the varied use of rate and pause.
Understand and employ the effect of a speaker's tone on audience.
Employ gestures to emphasize, to describe, and/or to replace verbal communication.
Use eye contact to enhance communication situations.
Express attitudes, ideas and emotions through appropriate body language.
Recognize the importance of personal appearance in communication.
Employ language and sentence structure appropriate to the audience and the situation.
Accept and apply oral and written criticism from teachers and peers.
Cite sources of researched information.

Listening

Prepare oral and written critiques of oral presentations.
Evaluate the strength of the ideas presented in oral presentations.
Identify the goals, main ideas, and supporting details of a speaker.
Utilize context clues and nonverbal cues to determine meaning.
Recognize and analyze propaganda techniques.
Develop an understanding of and respect for diversity in language use, patterns and dialects across cultures, ethnic groups, geographic regions, economic backgrounds, and social roles.
Respond to speakers with appropriate verbal and nonverbal feedback.
Demonstrate appropriate audience etiquette.
Illustrate effective listening skills by focusing on the speaker, overcoming distractions, and adjusting posture.
Prepare to listen by minimizing distractions.
Demonstrate productive note-taking while listening.

Speaking Clearly

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Resources to Help

Title	Type of Resorce	Location	Purpose	Description	Evaluation
Grammar Now!**	Reference tool	Click Here	Used by students and teachers to ask simple question about english grammar.	This is a free site dedicated to answering specific grammar, composition, research or formatting questions.	Students and teachers can asked any question on this site and get back an answer as soon as five minutes. This is a great site for resources with many resources to choose from.
Common Errors in English	Reference tool	Click Here	This link used by teachers to emphasis in their classrooms for correct English speaking.	The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak.	This is not a site dealing with grammar in general. It can help you focus on the correct way to speak because its dedicated to errors in usage of grammar.
Michigan Teacher Network	Content resource	Click Here	This site can help high school students grade 9-12 become a better public speaker and gives them background information on the steps to do it.	The link teaches you things such as: exploring and explain how the same words can have different usages and meanings in different contexts, cultures, and communities.	This link has great links to incredible sites that students can explore in their free time and class time as well.
Public Speaking Website-	Help Page	Click Here	To assist students with the problems of preparing a speech by practice techniques.	This website contains five modules that you can use along with your textbook to learn about the process of public speaking	Help students prepare for public speaking in college and in the corporate world.
Hyper Grammar	Internet Project	Click Here	Used for teachers and students for helpful information and practice.	It covers mainly the same grounds as an English class such as building phrases, punctuations, spelling, using vebs, etc.	It could be great independent study for home use for parents with their kids.
Lesson Plans	Lesson plans and Uniits	Click Here	Used by teachers - to conduct lesson plans and encourage better activities and interesting teaching lessons.	Used for K-12. And includes such things as a variety of featured curriculum materials, guidelines for activities.	This sight has good resources collected for you as a teacher to make teaching easier for beginning teachers looking for a direction.
Library In the Sky	Lesson Plan And Units	Click Here	Used by teachers to get a broad picture of some other plans by ideas of teachers all over.	This site utilizes pull-down menus to browse by subject, grade, or both to find differnt plans.	No more lurking in the dark on what to do in class. Check this out!
While We Listen**	Internet Teaching Tool	Click Here	Is a strategy for teachers to try with their students to get them to listen and evaluate language.	Encourage students to not be quick to speak and try listening to develope good language skills.	Students can try this activity anywhere and develop a better knowledge for speaking.
Smartkidssoftware	Software Evaluation	Click Here	This web site provides information on many pieces of software.	Teachers or parents can search for recommended software by age, grade level, subjects, and special buys to get the best buy.	Find out by checking up on good speech software that would be appropriste for your family and students.
Readers Theatre	Internet Teaching Tool	Click Here	Activity to use in the classrooms or anywhere to get students to open up and talk.	Different activities can be chosen to interpret scenes of reading and acting.	Students will not be shy anymore after these activities.

**Higher Learning Activity

Bibliography:
- Barry's Clip Art. http://www.barrysclipart.com/. Viewed May 1, 2001.

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