As per the discussion in class (See the video here called Friday, April 24) we are changing how we are doing our speeches next week.
Monday, April 27
Free workday. Please work on the reviews of the four ceremonial speeches below and the reviews of your classmates. Send this material to me via email by Wednesday, April 29 by midnight.
Wednesday, April 29
Upload your ceremonial speeches to Google Drive the same as we did last time. I will have a folder for the ceremonial speeches. Please save your speech with your name.
Friday, May 1
Please review your classmates' speeches and send them to me by email or placed in Google Docs by midnight on Friday, May 1
I will see you back in class on Monday, May 4. I will be in the Zoom Room on Monday, April 27 to answer any questions.
Friday, April 24, 2020
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Cerimonial Speeches
- —Words of welcome
- —Awards presentations
- —Award acceptances
- —Eulogies
- —Dedications
- —Toasts
- —Tributes
Why does this speech work? Or not?
How to think through the ceremonial speech
—Purpose: How can you like your remarks to the goals of the organization you represent?
—Audience: Who will be in the audience? What are their goals and expectations?
—Logistics: How formal should you be?
—Content: What should you include that relates to the group or the occasion?
—Organization: How can I use the patterns I know to accomplish my purpose.
—Credibility: What can I say that demonstrates I share the audience’s beliefs/interests/values
—Performance: What is the best delivery for this occasion?
- —Think about your relationship with the speaker
- —Think about your relationship with your audience
- —Bridge the two
- —Your reaction is how the audience will respond
Monday, April 6, 2020
Inspiring others to memorize
Congrats - you have worked on something very hard and come out the other end.
Now - what was the point of memorizing the Gettysburg Address or Give me Liberty or I have a Dream, etc? Remember, I asked you to think through both your process and your experience. Even if you didn't memorize the whole thing and recite it as you planned, you should have something to say about the process of trying to do it.
Okay, so here is the criteria for the speech:
1. Your audience for the speech is high school seniors.
It is a tough crowd, I know. Imagine that you are the teacher and this is the first day talking about this assignment. What will you say to them to get them to embrace the idea of memorizing Lincoln's speech or Truth's or Kennedy? I would appeal to noble motives and challenge them to achieve a higher level of belief and achievement.
2. Use all of the tools at your command developing and organizing the speech.
EPL, rhetorical devices, stories and the organization of the outline. This is where you will use your experience in learning about the address and trying to memorize it. Your personal story will be important for credibility with this audience. You have to be believable when you say this is a worthwhile task to tackle. Have an overall theme or metaphor for this speech to help it hang together.
3. Besides all of the usual criteria for a speech, you will be required to recite a portion of the speech as part of the whole.
It needs to be one of the paragraphs from the speech. Enough to impress but not the whole thing. And what portion you choose is important for the way you choose to create the speech. Whatever paragraph you choose, why you chose that one needs to be incorporated into the speech (And the answer cannot be this is the only part I can remember)
This type of speech, more than any other, depends on the quality and style of your delivery. Your presentation should be direct, showing that you really care about how your students react. You must prove to them that you are sincere and believe in your message. Be confident and forceful, and show enthusiasm and vitality.
4 This will be your longest speech to date at 4:00 or more minutes.
This assignment is meant to help you identify and apply basic speech components:
Organization, Rhetorical Devices, Ethos, Pathos, Logos .
Create a Google Doc of your outline and speech proper in the folder you created
then share it with me.
Now - what was the point of memorizing the Gettysburg Address or Give me Liberty or I have a Dream, etc? Remember, I asked you to think through both your process and your experience. Even if you didn't memorize the whole thing and recite it as you planned, you should have something to say about the process of trying to do it.
Okay, so here is the criteria for the speech:
1. Your audience for the speech is high school seniors.
It is a tough crowd, I know. Imagine that you are the teacher and this is the first day talking about this assignment. What will you say to them to get them to embrace the idea of memorizing Lincoln's speech or Truth's or Kennedy? I would appeal to noble motives and challenge them to achieve a higher level of belief and achievement.
2. Use all of the tools at your command developing and organizing the speech.
EPL, rhetorical devices, stories and the organization of the outline. This is where you will use your experience in learning about the address and trying to memorize it. Your personal story will be important for credibility with this audience. You have to be believable when you say this is a worthwhile task to tackle. Have an overall theme or metaphor for this speech to help it hang together.
3. Besides all of the usual criteria for a speech, you will be required to recite a portion of the speech as part of the whole.
It needs to be one of the paragraphs from the speech. Enough to impress but not the whole thing. And what portion you choose is important for the way you choose to create the speech. Whatever paragraph you choose, why you chose that one needs to be incorporated into the speech (And the answer cannot be this is the only part I can remember)
This type of speech, more than any other, depends on the quality and style of your delivery. Your presentation should be direct, showing that you really care about how your students react. You must prove to them that you are sincere and believe in your message. Be confident and forceful, and show enthusiasm and vitality.
This assignment is meant to help you identify and apply basic speech components:
Organization, Rhetorical Devices, Ethos, Pathos, Logos .
Create a Google Doc of your outline and speech proper in the folder you created
then share it with me.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn to use a variety of speech tactics
- Learn to apply lessons from the memorization speech to another speech
- Learn to apply what you have learned to your own speech organization
How to get started on the Inspirational Speech
Go look at three other speeches and write down what worked and why (analysis)
Puke about your memorization experience. You should have plenty of notes to help you think this through from your own experience to watching others give speeches.
Begin to sketch out your idea on paper. Think about the unifying thread you want to use to tie the idea together. This is not outlining this is speech writing. Here is where you may want to use your story as your jumping-off point. Think mind mapping.
Now it is time to outline. Look for the places you have incorporated ethos, pathos, and logos. Point out where you have used rhetorical devices. How did you choose to organize your speech?
Don’t forget to add your speech reasoning at the end of your outline.
Don't forget to include your word-for-word speech.
Puke about your memorization experience. You should have plenty of notes to help you think this through from your own experience to watching others give speeches.
Begin to sketch out your idea on paper. Think about the unifying thread you want to use to tie the idea together. This is not outlining this is speech writing. Here is where you may want to use your story as your jumping-off point. Think mind mapping.
Now it is time to outline. Look for the places you have incorporated ethos, pathos, and logos. Point out where you have used rhetorical devices. How did you choose to organize your speech?
Don’t forget to add your speech reasoning at the end of your outline.
Don't forget to include your word-for-word speech.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Ch Ch Ch Changes (turn and face the strange)
(The sound on this is great - it is the remaster. Listen to the words)
Weds, April 1 - Review of requirements
Friday, April 3 - Continue the work on the memorized speech (no formal class)
Monday, April 6 - Upload the memorized speech
Weds, April 8 - Thinking about the inspirational speech (details for inspirational speech)
Friday, April 10 - NO SCHOOL
Monday, April 13 - Upload the inspirational speech (no formal class)
Weds, April 15 - Give the inspirational speech in class (group 1)
Friday, April 17 - Give the inspirational speech in class (group 2)
Monday, April 20 - Review of special occasion speeches
Weds, April 22 - Discussion of special occasion speeches
Friday, April 24 -Work on your own
Monday, April 27 - Group 1 special occasion speech
Weds, April 29 - Group 2 special occasion speech
Obviously, this new schedule is subject to change.
Check out these memory mastery videos.
https://www.magneticmemorymethod.com/members/video-1/
https://www.magneticmemorymethod.com/members/video-2/
https://www.magneticmemorymethod.com/members/video-3/
I get the four one tomorrow but feel free to go to his site and sign up for the videos and the workbooks. Lots of his stuff is free.
Check out these memory mastery videos.
https://www.magneticmemorymethod.com/members/video-1/
https://www.magneticmemorymethod.com/members/video-2/
https://www.magneticmemorymethod.com/members/video-3/
I get the four one tomorrow but feel free to go to his site and sign up for the videos and the workbooks. Lots of his stuff is free.
Monday, March 23, 2020
For Friday
For Friday, March 27, 2020:
When you commit to something it really helps to understand it from all possible angles.
Do a speech analysis of your chosen work. First look at it from the words part and then from the performance part.
Use the same criteria as you did for your mid-term. Also, include the following:
Take a look at the history of the moment.
Why was this speech important at the time it was spoken?
What about this speech do you think makes it resonate over time?
Don't be sappy here, look at it as a real analyst.
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Inspirational Speech - getting started.
The Inspirational Speech (The memorized portion)
This assignment is meant to help you learn to focus and challenge your brain.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn to identify a variety of speech tactics used in your chosen speech
- Learn to “hear” what a good speech sounds like by memorizing it
- Learn to apply what you have learned to your own speech organization for the next speech on inspiration.
1. Choose a speech for the offerings below.
2. Do a puke about the speech you chose:
- What you do like about the speech?
- What words or phrases speak to you?
- What about the speech's time in history make it important to you?
- What is it about the speaker that appeals to you?
4. For Monday, based on your puke write a rationalization about the speech you have chosen and the answers to these questions in a narrative (Imagine you are meeting with me at Starbucks and you are telling me about this speech and why you chose it.) This narrative should be about 500 words. Please send it by class time (8:00 a.m.) on Monday.
5. Monday we will have a Zoom class with Dr. Matt Corr who will talk with us about memorizing things. I will send you the link before our class.
Questions?
Have a good week.
Dr. C
Questions?
Have a good week.
Dr. C
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Best practices for working remotely
Working remotely is part of the new business world. You'll likely be working online in some portion of your job no matter your profession. As we are navigating the next few weeks of online classes keep the following in mind:
1. Get dressed - It matters to how you approach your work. PJs are nice but when you need to get down to business, put on some pants.
2. Maintain your schedule - COME TO CLASS. What is true in person is still true online. Use the time you would be in class to "be in class" this will help you stay on track when we eventually come back to campus.
3. Have the right tools
1. Get dressed - It matters to how you approach your work. PJs are nice but when you need to get down to business, put on some pants.
2. Maintain your schedule - COME TO CLASS. What is true in person is still true online. Use the time you would be in class to "be in class" this will help you stay on track when we eventually come back to campus.
3. Have the right tools
- Download Zoom
- Learn to use the online SU library system
- Make sure your computer software is up to date
- Stay in contact with other students in the class
- Communicate with your professors often via chat, text, email, smoke signals, or in person at an off-campus location
4. Communicate with your professors often - (It needs to be said twice.)
When submitting an assignment make sure you are giving your professors an update on how you are doing and how working remotely is working for you. For Crowley classes, send me a personal update every five days, to let me know how you are moving through the material in my class and in your other SU classes.
Take a look at this list of best practices for online students from Northeastern University. There are many more good tips in here. Consider the next few weeks a new adventure. You will be learning new concepts and new things about yourself. Embrace the challenge.
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