Speech and Debate (Period 3) Assignments
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- SPHS 2018-2019
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Hello. Please note the following information:Your access #s for TURNITIN for this course are the following:Class ID: 18336970Key ID: 1234And, for fun, I have attached a version of a class syllabus which should be mostly reliable (although meant to provide an overview and a sense of the course-not necessarily an actual blueprint).Feel free to email me with any questions or concerns.
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Speech and Debate Final • 2018-2019
Mock Graduation Speech
For your final, you are being asked to give a mock graduation speech in front of the class. In this speech, you are to address either your class (2019, 2020, etc.) or the class of Speech and Debate as you reminisce about the past, or as you look hopefully towards the future. The speech should be three to five minutes long. Memorization is not required, however keep in mind that you are being assessed on your ability to evoke emotion and engage the audience. Speaking to the audience, rather than reading at them, is a much more effective way of being evocative.
This speech will not be scored as a “credit for completion” assignment. You are going to be assessed on the following:
- Time: Do you make the time limit?
- Delivery: Is your speech effectively emotionally, and stylistically delivered?
- Writing: Is your writing topical, appropriate, and impactful?
- Creativity: Is your speech original? Is it true to yourself?
To help get your thought processes going, listed below are some graduation speeches:
- “This Is Water” by David Foster Wallace
- UC Berkeley Commencement Keynote Speech by Sheryl Sandberg
- University of the Arts Commencement Speech by Neil Gaiman
- Juilliard School Commencement Speech by Joyce DiDonato
- Stanford Commencement Speech by Steve Jobs
Schedule for the rest of the year:
Monday, May 13 - Take the day to research/listen to graduation speeches to get a better sense of what is being asked of you. Start to develop an idea of what it is that you have to say, and how you want to say it.
Wednesday, May 15 - Take the day to research/listen to graduation speeches to get a better sense of what is being asked of you. Start to develop an idea of what it is that you have to say, and how you want to say it.
Friday, May 17 - Work day.
Tuesday, May 21 - Work day.
Thursday, May 23 - Rough draft due. If you do not have it with you today you are not receiving credit for the rough draft.
Tuesday, May 28 - Work day to focus on comments made on the rough draft. Get list of people that would like to give their speech early, on Thursday.
Thursday, May 30 - Early-bird option for giving your speech. If you go today, you do not have to go the day of the final. Since it is an All-Day, only a few people will get to go.
Friday, May 31 - Final date. Everyone else has to give their speech today. (Possible potluck as well.)
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TAKE NOTE OF THE BELOW GUIDE
Guide to Original Oratory
Original Oratory has to follow the ooooohhhh, ahhhhhhh flow:
Oooohhh: feel the seriousness of the problem: first: mildly annoying nature, and then its increasing gravity
Ahhhhhh: we need to see a way out of the problem: first, with suggestions that calm us down and point our behavior in the right direction; then, with examples of those who overcame the problem by employing the suggestions.
The OO Audience Journey:
- Uninvolved curiosity
- Alertness and awareness of a potential problem
- Agreement that the problem exists
- Appreciation of the seriousness of the problem
- Anger or even outrage that the situation is allowed to exist
- The urgent desire for a solution
- Reassurance that a solution exists and satisfaction that things can be made right
- Proposed Structure: The Five Pyramid Method
- Developed by Joe and Pam Wycoff (Apple Valley High School, MN)
- Why do we use upside-down pyramids? We start out with a broad topic, but we focus at a point or on a thesis!
Pyramid 1: Introduction
Attention Getter, Link, Common Ground, Significance, Thesis, Preview, Transition
Attention Getter: grab our attention with a story, illustration, quote, humor, hypothetical questions Link: Link the Attention Getter to us and your topic
Common Ground: What does it have to do with me?
Significance: Cite an authority to support your thesis
Thesis: Whatʼs your point?
Preview: Outline/signpost your speech
Transition: End intro and start first body with clever punch
Pyramid 2: 1st Main Point
Explain it: how, where, or why. Support it (authority), Analysis, Commentary, Harm, Summarize it, and Transition
Things about Pyramid 2:
- This is the lightest and most casual body pyramid
- Utilize humor
- Use facts, cite experts
- Reach out to your audience so that they can identify with your problem
Pyramid 3: 2nd Main Point
- This is more serious than Pyramid 2
- Reach out again
- Use facts, cite experts
Pyramid 4: 3rd Main Point
Explain it
Don’t use quotes or experts; Tell a story (or your story)
- This is the climax of your Oratory
- You either tell your personal story or a heart story about somebody else
- This is 100% serious; no humor, jokes, or statistics; JUST TALK
Pyramid 5: Solution
- Whatʼs your solution?
- Talk about examples of success-Whatʼs the threat of inaction?
- Be very careful with solutions
- You WILL have people who do not agree
- Be reasonable, be realistic, be inspirational
Tips for Conclusion:
- Link back to Attention Getter
- Talk heart to heart- INSPIRE YOUR AUDIENCE
- Add a quote? Itʼs up to you
- Urge us to act
- End creatively (link to intro for full circle)
- What does the audience like?
- Delivery: Someone who looks confident, has high status delivery, has a winning smile, whose eyes reach into the soul of the listeners, who has passion, looks mature, is in control of his/her words, body, voice, audience, and who looks spiffy
- Content: A speech that keeps them interested, makes them go oooohhh-ahhhhh, makes them go through a sequence of emotions, involves a topic that is intriguing, offers varying support, uses clever language, and makes a personal and emotional connection
- Have something for everyone!
- Have examples, stories, personal touches for the goo-goo ga-ga judges
- Have facts, statistics, and cite sources for the intellectuals
- State “the bottom line” for those who donʼt need fluff but just want it handed to them on a plate
- Have “testimony” for those who need to hear from voices of authority
GOOD LUCK!