Week 10

Themes!!

Understanding and using themes can be one of the most satisfying speech techniques these students can master.  It is the icing on the cake to a speech! 

We watched an excellent example of a speech sweetly smothered with the theme of music and song.  The students wrote down every word or phrase that was sprinkled through out the speech that was part of the theme. 

If they caught other examples of speech techniques swirled in, they wrote those down too.  They picked out the topic, a bunch of alliteration, and topped it all off with finding an allusion to Shakespeare.

You might have noticed I lightly used the theme of a cake in this post.  If this were a speech, I could have blended in any of the following words: 

bite sized

baked

blissful

carefully crafted

divine

drenched

drizzled

enticing

devilishly good

dusted

exquisite

creamy

flaky

fresh

gourmet

garnished

glazed

heaping

heavenly

homemade

lavish

layered

melt-in-your-mouth

moist

scrumptious

sinful

sugar coated

smothered

tempting

scrumptious

yummy

wholesome

warm

Homework:

• Start thinking of a prepared speech for a speech contest at the end of the semester.  Complete with trophies!
• Read pgs 43-47
• Decide on a problem in the world the matters to you.  Using a phone or other device, record a 3-5 minute video sharing your thoughts and solutions on the topic.  Consider uploading it to the FILA Facebook group page.   

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Week 9

I am so impressed with these scholars! 

Today we heard prepared speeches and we were blown away by the creativity of these guys. 

They beautifully demonstrated many of the speech techniques they have learned in 8 weeks. 

They showed great eye contact, confidence, gave personal stories, demonstrated the use of allusions, rule of three, and asked rhetorical questions. 

With the few minutes we had left after the speeches, we reviewed the requirements for the Golden Microphone.  They are well on their way to a chocolate feast! 

Homework:

• Read pgs 26-29, 42
• Study one of the speeches on the requirements list, or use the one we printed off for you (Patrick Henry "Give Me Liberty")  Identify the use of literary devices and persuasive techniques.  

Week 8

We started off class with some fun tongue twisters!  Some twisters were pretty surprisingly tough!  
There was the iconic Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?"

And the surprising "toy boat, toy boat, toy boat."  

Teacher Betty impressed us all with a marvelous speech that demonstrated the effective use of a quote.  In her case, it was a poem.  

The scholars then picked a quote or two from a pile of quotes in the middle of the table and formed an impromptu speech around it.  As always, we were very impressed with what they came up with.  Personal stories, the rule of three and good eye contact.  

Homework:

• Read pages 23-25, 40-41
• Write the transition and conclusion of your prepared speech
• Memorize a quote that you can use in a speech

PREPARED SPEECHES ARE TO BE GIVEN NEXT WEEK!!!  READY?!  YAY!