Drafting Your Speech

I'm not here today... (hope you've already figured that one out).

You guys have the period to draft your speeches. Use the time wisely and pay close attention to grabbing the audience's attention. You need to make your issue personal to them.

Good luck and have fun at CAS if you are going.

CAV

Wed 9/3 period 6:Presenting Your Opinion

Today you are going to present your opinion to the class and field relevant questions to your ideas. This will be an opportunity to see just how interesting and how strong your ideas are. Can they hold up to the scrutiny of the class.

HW: Research your topic:
1. Find two important pieces of information for you topic.
2. Post them in a new post (include the source of this info).
3. Explain why this information is important to your speech.

Monday 7/3: Period 6

1. Read a neighbour's brainstorming work and leave them comment about which opinion you find most interesting.
2. In comment write an opposing viewpoint to one of their ideas.
3. Modality Discussion - how does this apply to your speeches?
4. Write a rough draft of your speech and post it on your blog.

Speaking Assessment Task

Nature of Task:


Persuasive texts are designed to position a point of view(opinion - thesis).


Texts that successfully persuade are usually highly emotive (emotional words + influence listener/audience emotions) and effectively balance opinions with facts (research- logos).


Persuasive texts can make sweeping generalisations (uniformed conclusion), rely on stereotypes and hyperbole and yet still seem credible.


This is because a combination of objective (facts) and subjective (opinion) information is usually used to persuade.


Careful use of repetition and high modality words(persuasion techniques) can emphatically convey the composer’s purpose if it is counterbalanced with the use of statistics, expert evidence and product/idea endorsement from authoritative sources(ethos)(objective).


Moreover, effective incorporation of anecdotes(personal story), analogies (comparison) and inclusive language (we, us, ours - include the audience) (techniques) can personalise the message and help connect the composer and their text with its audience.


Info:
objective and subjective


focal point:
thesis


how are we going to convey:
mode of persuasion
techniques


What is high modality?
having a strong and obvious opinion in a text

Monday Period 3: The Assessment Task is HERE!!

1. Read through the assessment task.
2. Discuss the assessment task as a class.
3. Discuss 'modality'

HW: Choose at least 3 topics and write at least one paragraph outlining some of your thoughts on the topic.

Friday Period 5: NAPLAN and Crafting a Speech

1. Do the spelling questions below.
2. Watch the Obama Speech from about 8min in and read the transcript. What techniques does Obama use that MLK use?


HW In a blog post of your own craft a speech convincing the class to attend and cheer at the upcoming CAS Swimming Carnival.
     a. make sure you have a clear beginning, middle and end
     b. make sure you utilise at least 3 of the techniques we have been discussing
     c. highlight which mode of reasoning your are using (logos, ethos, or pathos)
     d. include one relevant quote in your speech (see MLK's 'I have a dream')
 Be prepared to deliver your speech in the first class of next week.

But the reason our campaign has always been different, the reason we began this improbable journey almost a year ago is because it's not just about what I will do as president. It is also about what you, the people who love this country, the citizens of the United States of America, can do to change it.

That's what this election is all about.

That's why tonight belongs to you. It belongs to the organizers, and the volunteers, and the staff who believed in this journey and rallied so many others to join the cause.

We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. And they will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks and months to come.

We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

(APPLAUSE)

For when we have faced down impossible odds, when we've been told we're not ready or that we shouldn't try or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can. Yes, we can. Yes, we can.

It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation: Yes, we can.

It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights: Yes, we can.

It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness: Yes, we can.

It was the call of workers who organized, women who reached for the ballot, a president who chose the moon as our new frontier, and a king who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the promised land: Yes, we can, to justice and equality.

Yes, we can, to opportunity and prosperity. Yes, we can heal this nation. Yes, we can repair this world. Yes, we can.

And so, tomorrow, as we take the campaign south and west, as we learn that the struggles of the textile workers in Spartanburg are not so different than the plight of the dishwasher in Las Vegas, that the hopes of the little girl who goes to the crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of L.A., we will remember that there is something happening in America, that we are not as divided as our politics suggest, that we are one people, we are one nation.

And, together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story, with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea: Yes, we can.

Thank you, New Hampshire. Thank you. Thank you.

Tuesday 1/3: MLK's "I Have a Dream"

1. Sydney will have a fashion week coming up in May. Do you think that festivals like these still have a place considering all of the devastation in the region (Queensland + NZ)?

(answer in an a persuasive speech that should take about 2 min to deliver - finish for HW)

NY Fashion Week

NZ Earthquakes

2. Review Homework
3. Watch Speech and discuss key elements
4. Assign sections of speech to groups to recite next class.