I want you to tell a story about something that you learned. You need to be able to clearly articulate the thing that you learned, but it’s up to you how you communicate it to your audience.
Really, this is a speech that asks you to think hard about your audience, think hard about the thing that you learned and then create a speech that answers the question: SO WHAT?
Maybe you’ll start your speech by describing what you learned. Maybe you’ll end your speech by explaining what you learned. Maybe you’ll include stories. Maybe you’ll structure your speech more like an informational speech.
In any case, I *do* expect that you’ll do research and I *do* expect that the structure of your speech will emerge primarily based on the needs and interests of your audience.
This speech will be 3 minutes long and will include 12 power point slides which must auto-advance every 15 seconds. This structure is commonly used by the “ignite” movement. You should click the link and watch a few of the stories.
One way of thinking carefully about your audience is to think about the five canons of rhetoric that the Romans used in order to help them prepare well. In our case:
PRACTICE YOUR SPEECH TO A LIVE AUDIENCE. There's no substitute for real practice and your mirror tells you terrible lies.
This will give you a clear idea of HOW people use power point slides not just to illustrate the points that they are making, but to actively interplay with their spoken presentation to move the presentation forward. Jot down ideas as you watch about HOW they make their slides work.
One way of thinking carefully about your audience is to think about the five canons of rhetoric that the Romans used in order to help them prepare well. In our case:
- invention = coming up with a creative way to shape your topic,
- style = will include the flare you use to make your power point interesting as well as the structure and wording that you use in your speech,
- arrangement = will have to do with the development, main points or "plotline" of your speech as well as the order of your slides and the relationship between your speaking and your slides,
- memory = the ways you help your audience remember your speech and
- delivery = has to do with the practice that you put into the speech.
PRACTICE YOUR SPEECH TO A LIVE AUDIENCE. There's no substitute for real practice and your mirror tells you terrible lies.
This will give you a clear idea of HOW people use power point slides not just to illustrate the points that they are making, but to actively interplay with their spoken presentation to move the presentation forward. Jot down ideas as you watch about HOW they make their slides work.
You can also find a rubric that will guide my grading in the folder I have shared with you in google docs.
