Research for Your Oral History

The Research for your oral history will help you in thinking about your participants, their experiences and the process of interviewing them.  You should collect some academic research, you should read some first-person accounts, you should collect some literature from the popular press.  You should turn in a summary paragraph that draws together your key findings,  a list of questions that you may include in your interview, and a list of works that you consulted.  Please use MLA format or APA format in this citation.  You will turn in your research via Google Docs, again sharing your document with comm.110.malone@gmail.com (as well as the members of your group).  Your research is due by 8 pm on October 23rd. 

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Media Literacy Speech

OVERVIEW:  The Media Literacy Speech is a 7-9 minute speech that helps your audience (students, your peers) develop stronger Media Literacy skills.

Your presentation must integrate concepts from our course, include an in-depth analysis of a particular media text, focus on media literacy, emerge from significant research and be carefully organized.

Each person will choose a media text and develop a speech that explains that text (from a media literacy perspective). Each text must be posted to the course shared google doc, must be IMPORTANT in the last two years and each speech must deal with a unique genre in that particular medium. Andrew will regularly review these topics and let you know if there is a problem.

Examples of media texts could include:

television sit-coms
tv reality shows
tv game shows
(other kinds of television shows)
magazines
video games
movies
an album
a radio show
a song
a newspaper page
a web page

Your media text must be a MASS media text, so cell phone messages, skype, AIM, email, plays and live performances by bands DON'T count.

Your media text must be an INFLUENTIAL (critically or popularly) media text from the past year (12 months).

You may want to include a CLIP or a PORTION or PICTURES of/from your media text, but any videos from your speech may not extend longer than 10% of your speaking time.

Your speech should be carefully crafted, employing all of Aristotle's proofs to engage your audience and persuade them to care about their own media literacy within this genre / medium / (type of) text.

POINTS AVAILABLE: 75 points

ASSESSMENT BASED ON::

Content - value of information, sources & focus (25),
Speaking/Presentation points (25),
Structure & Creativity of Overall Presentation (25),

TURN IN:

A full sentence outline, minimally two levels (I. A., B.). Your outline must be the CONTENT of the speech, NOT a description of what you will do in the speech.  (in other words, the subject of the sentence cannot be "I" and the verb should never be "will explain"  -- make actual claims about your actual subject.)

A works cited page including proper citations of all sources and the text you're focusing upon.

You should share all of these materials with comm.110.malone@gmail.com

Speech Giving Groups

Mitchell Hall 207:

Ben
Tim
Jason
Cady
Amy



Mitchell Hall 209:

Diedre
Sarah
Colleen
Allison
Kelsey


Mitchell Hall 203:

Jordan
Andrew
Tommy
Jenny
Chuck


Mitchell Hall 103:

Lepear
Juho
Will
Hunter
Travis


Mitchell Hall 107:

Jared
Felipe
Conner
Phil
Michael

Informative Speech Writing Groups

You'll work in these groups together for the next weeks to develop and write an informative speech on a community issue. You can find out more about the assignment here. These groups will also serve as an opportunity for you to participate in "labs" focused on group communication.

Child Abuse:
Tim
Andrew
Juho
Felipe
Sarah

Domestic Violence:
Diedre
Jared
Lepear
Ben
Jordan

Obesity:
Travis
Mike
Chuck
Amy
Kelsey

Teen Pregnancy:
Hunter
Phil
Jenny
Cady
Allison

Animal Cruelty:
Colleen
Will
Jason
Thomas
Connor

Overview Sheet

Your overview sheet is due on MONDAY, February 17th you give your COMMUNITY ISSUES FAIR SPEECH. The overview sheet should include:

a clear statement of your community issue,

a clear statement of your persuasive goal,

an explanation of how you implemented each step of Monroe's Motivated Sequence, and

an appropriately formatted list of references (please feel free to use whichever style manual you usually use -- APA, MLA or Chicago)

Approved Topics for Community Issues Fair

Here is the list of approved Topics.

Wecome!

Welcome to our class blogsite. You'll find an expanded version of our syllabus below -- probably the most helpful thing will be a little bit more information about assignments. As we move through the semester -- I'll post reading due dates here and any other class announcements.

I'm looking forward to getting to know you better....