The Six Formal Speeches

Speech#1—Special Occasion, Commemorate a Mentor who Advocates(30 points, 2 to 4 minutes)

Tell the audience about a special person to you who advocates for what you believe in by presenting them with an award at an award’s ceremony. Give a brief biography of this person, detail the history and background of their advocating experiences, and describe why this is and has been important to you.

In order to receive credit for this speech, you must clearly illustrate all criteria according to the rubric, which includes staying within the allotted time frame and providing an outline (do your best for this first speech). Use only notecards (4x5 index cards) for delivery, no manuscripts, no reading directly from card, no memorizing. Remember to speak naturally, breathe, smile, and make eye contact with the entire audience.

You will evaluate yourself for this first speech.

Speech#2—Informative, Explain an Object Dealing with Advocacy (70 points, 3 to 5 minutes)

This speech will inform and educate the audience about a thing that is associated with the person you commemorated in Speech #1 and how they need this object for their work as an advocate. This should be any one thing that is tangible, concrete, and recognizableand connects directly to the advocacy work related to your mentor. Think of this as “show and tell” from your elementary school days!

In order to receive credit for this speech, you must clearly illustrate all criteria according to the rubric, which includes staying within the allotted time frame, providing a properly formatted outline with all necessary criteria, and presenting the explained object (or representation of the object) as your visual aid. Use only notecards (4x5 index cards) for delivery, no manuscripts, no reading directly from card, no memorizing. Remember to speak naturally, breathe, smile, and make eye contact with the entire audience.

You will evaluate a fellow presenter in class.

Speech#3—Informative, Describe a Placewhere Advocacy Happens (110 points, 3 to5 minutes)

Thoroughly and specifically describe a place where your commemorated advocate (from Speech #1) and object dealing with advocacy (from Speech #2) take place. Inform and educate your audience about this place by being objective with facts, anecdotes, and history. Do not try to persuade your audience (yet!) to like this place or to go there.

In order to receive credit for this speech, you must clearly illustrate all criteria according to the rubric, which includes staying within the allotted time frame, providing a properly formatted outline with all necessary criteria, and a professional-looking PowerPoint overhead slideshow with five or more panels (consisting of bullets, quotes, graphs, charts, etc). This speech is 100% memorized, meaning you cannot use notecards or any manuscript for delivery, running the slideshow behind you as you present. Remember to speak naturally, breathe, smile, and make eye contact with the audience.

You will evaluate a fellow presenter in class.

Speech#4—Persuasive, Persuade Audience to Advocate (130 points, 6 to 8 minutes)

You will take this speech beyond informing your audience. Using all of the “information” you have already provided your audience with from Speech #1, Speech #2, and Speech #3, you will influence the audience’s attitudes, beliefs, or behaviorsabout an issue that is important to you. You are to convince your audience to feel as you do while you advocate for someone, something, or someplace.

In order to receive credit for this speech, you must clearly illustrate all criteria according to the rubric, which includes staying within the allotted time frame, providing a properly formatted Monroe’s Motivated Sequence outline (different from what we used for the first three speeches) with all necessary criteria (including three researched, credible sources in the outline AND on an Annotated Works Cited page), and no visual aids. Use only notecards (4x5 index cards) for delivery, no manuscripts, no reading directly from card, no memorizing. Remember to speak naturally, breathe, smile, and make eye contact with the entire audience.

Bring in an SD card(2 gb should suffice) to record your presentation in class on the day of your speech. You will evaluate your recording of this speech for homework.

Speech#5—Informative, An Online Presentation with Self-Reflection (80 points, 8 to 10 minutes)

According to Chapter 28 in our textbook, “the demand for people skilled in speaking to remote audiences continues to grow,” (O’Hair, p. 418), and learning how to educate an online audience is a valuable skill to take out into the professional world today. Inform your audience about what you learned while advocating for your cause by doing some critical reflection about yourself.

Prepare this speech prior to our class so that you can simply “show” the asynchronous presentation to your live audience then answer questions following (the Q-and-A does not include the allotted timeframe). Use any presentation program/method you would like, noting some examples on page 420.

In order to receive credit for this speech, you must clearly illustrate all criteria according to the rubric, which includes staying within the allotted time frame (again, not including the Q-and-A following your presentation), providing a properly formatted outline with all necessary criteria, and a professional-looking online platform that willinclude both visual and audio components. Remember to speak naturally, breathe, smile, and make eye contact when presenting your online platform to the audience.

You will evaluate each other in class via your questions and answers following each presentation.

Speech#6—Informative, (60 points, 2 to 4 minutes)

Using all you’ve learned in class this semester, you will inform OR persuade your audience immediately after I have given you the topic. There will be no visual aids required, nor will you submit an outline. This will be quick and on-the-spot presenting! Remember: Speak naturally, breathe, smile, and make eye contact with the entire audience.

You will evaluate yourself for this speech.