Rehearsing & Delivering Speeches

This morning during period 3, prepare and rehearse your speech.

To do this, follow these procedures:

1. Cut out your speech and adhere or fix it to index cards. 
2. Memorize your key points or topic sentences.
3. Mark, underline, highlight important details in your speech.
4. Rehearse your speech with your partner. Go over and over it so that you are comfortable with what you have to say and how you transition between each speaker.
5. Volunteers will go first, then random selection. If your partner is not here or ready, consider how you will proceed with your speech. What changes might you have to make?

During period 4, we will travel to the Ensemble Theater and deliver as many speeches as we can in the remaining time. Any speech not delivered today, will be delivered next class. Be prepared for this inevitability. 

REMEMBER: Effective performance is based on a few things:

• 1. Preparation (rehearsal) -- knowing what you are saying and why.
• 2. Voice (how you sound: volume, pacing, pitch, tone, elocution, and appropriateness of voice)
• 3. Character (how you portray a character both vocally and physically)
• 4. Energy
• 5. Making choices. A good performer makes deliberate choices about voice, character, energy, tone, and rehearses these choices to deliver a solid performance.

Evaluate each speech using the form given to you for participation credit.

HOMEWORK: Please complete the 10 Review ?'s for Chapter 3: Listening for MONDAY, Oct. 7. If you have not completed chapters 1 & 2 review ?'s, you are late and will only receive minimum credit (if any) for these assignments. Please turn in your late work.