Journal due! Speech Rehearsal

Your journals are due today. Please turn these in now. Make sure your name is printed on your journal.

After our quiz on the communication process, tone, diction, and key terms covered in marking period one, please go to the lab next door and revise/put the finishing touches on your speeches.

1. Divide the speech into paragraphs--each paragraph should contain one of your main points. 
2. You may cut up your speech and paste, tape, glue your work onto index cards that you can use for your notes while delivering your speech.
3. Highlight important key points in your speech; Slow down during these highlights when you deliver your speech. Try to make eye contact during these important places in your speech.
4. Identify TONE and changes or transitions in your speech. Where are you excited, energized, business-like, sad, etc. Write your tone in the margins of your speech or index card(s). 
5. Consider where you might put in a gesture to help communicate your ideas. Consider the PACING of your speech--which parts are slow, which parts are fast?
6. Rehearse with your partner. You may use our lab or the classroom next door (a238).

During 4th period (or after you complete the steps above), we will begin rehearsing speeches.

Effective speech is largely based on knowing well what you wrote. Being familiar with the words you used and how to pronounce them are helpful. In addition,

• sincerity (you've got to believe and mean what you say)
• effective volume (if we can't hear you, then there is no point in communicating)
• eye contact (helps gain feedback from your audience)
• effective pacing (slow down during important points, speed up during non-important points or digressions)
• effective gestures and posture (physical communication is helpful to communicate an idea)

can help make your speech more effective and interesting.

Pair up to "rehearse" your speech. Deliver your speech to one another, taking turns. The listener (receiver) should give you feedback about effectiveness. What parts of the speech are weak, vague, or badly delivered? Where does the listener stop listening in the speech? Does the opening of the speech effectively hook or interest the listener? Critique each other.

Use your time provided to go over your speech again and again. Seriously, the more time you practice, the better you will be prepared. Don't goof off or throw away this opportunity. Work until we tell you we are going to deliver our speeches!

HOMEWORK: Practice your speech if you did not deliver it today!