PROFESSIONAL FINAL SPEECH
You choose
the kind of speech you want to present.
You can:
1. Teach 5.
Be a lawyer in a case
2. Do a debate with other class members 6. Do a Persuasive,
Informative or Policy speech
3. Praise or blame something in our society 7. Choose your own kind of
speech--just be sure to talk
4. Do a comic standup routine to me ahead of time.
Each speech
will have its own set of criteria. I
will identify what I am looking for when I review your Outline/Powerpoint for the final speech. Your goal is to make an effective 6 to 8
minute presentation.
EMAIL OR YOUSENDIT.COM YOUR
PROFESSIONAL SPEECH DRAFT OUTLINE OR POWERPOINT TO JIM 2 DAYS BEFORE YOU SPEAK.
What to do for each
kind of Professional Speech:
Teaching
You teach
for 6 to 8 minutes. Typically, you need
to get people doing whatever it is that you are talking about. If you are instructing students how to do a
type of math problem--then have them do it.
Take notice--having students do things takes a lot of time and you only
have 6 to 8 minutes--so do NOT prepare to do an in-depth lecture. You will probably outline a 4 step process of
how to do something, students will then do the 4 step process, you will offer comments on what they did and answer their
questions. If your teaching is going to
be on something where "doing it" does not seem to work--then speak to
me.
How I grade Teaching
Final Speeches:
1. How clear
were you in presenting your lecture? 4.
How specific and helpful were your responses to student output?
2. How well
did you answer student questions? 5.
How interesting, relevant and helpful was the activity you asked us to do?
3. How
interesting was your presentation?
Persuasive, Informative or Policy
speech
I use the
same standards as in previous speeches.
The only difference is that the Persuasive and Informative Speeches are
6 to 8 minutes long and the Policy speech is 6 minutes long with 3 minutes to
answer the attack panel.
Comic Standup Routine--Speech to
Entertain
Here, the
goal is to entertain us with jokes for 6 to 8 minutes. We should laugh out loud many times. At the same time, the speech should make some
kind of point--the jokes and stories you tell should focus on different angles
on the same theme. Your conclusion
should discuss the main theme/point that your speech developed. Basically, I grade these speeches on the
basis of how funny they are and how well you develop an important theme.
Debate with other class members/Lawyer
making a Case
See me about
this--we will work out what you will do.
You can choose the subject for your debate or trial. For the trial, you can be a prosecutor or a defense
attorney or if two of you want to do this--one can be prosecutor and the other
the defense. For a debate, you can have
2, 3 or 4 people. You’ll be expected to address the key issues involved and to
respond to each others’ arguments.
Praise or blame something in our
society
I will be
looking for a well worded speech that carefully highlights the issue, person or
situation on which you want us to focus.
See me for more details--these speeches widely vary in what they need to
be effective.
Cooking Speech
Show us how
to make your favorite food and, of course, give us some samples! I grade these
speeches, more or less, like an informative speech.
Your own kind of speech
Talk with or
email me about your idea to make sure it is a go. Basically, most any kind of
speech that you prepare yourself is a speech you may give.
THE CRITIQUE SHEET FOR THE
PROFESSIONAL SPEECH
I and the
peer critics will use a blank sheet of paper to evaluate your final speech.
When I write comments on the speech, I will just list them out. When I grade
your speech, I will give you a grade on the presentation as a whole (up to 40
points) with your rough draft counting as up to 5 points and your final draft
counting as up to 5 points (for a total of 50 points).
EMAIL
OR YOUSENDIT.COM OUTLINE/POWERPOINT TO JIM BY MIDNIGHT ON THE DAY YOU SPEAK
TURN IN YOUR SELF CRITIQUE GOAL SHEET TO JIM OR IN HIS
MAILBOX. JIM WILL GIVE OR CAMPUS MAIL YOUR GRADED CRITIQUE TO YOU.