Camille Romero

Welcome to the Spring 2017 Semester of Speech Communication. Homework and class resources will be posted here regularly for both parents and students to access. However, any questions or comments should be sent via email or asked in class.

Here are the first day handouts:
Speech Communication Syllabus

(Completed map due: 8/11)

Objectives:
1. To recall significant events from one’s life that shaped the person you are today.
2. To provide a resource for students to use as they move through this course

You will construct a roadmap of the significant events of your life. Your creation will be a graphic representation of important events, people and places in your life.

Follow this procedure:
1. Brainstorm significant events in your life. These can be happy memories, sad memories, scary memories, important places or people, life changing events – you choose what is important to you.
2. Choose up to 15 memories (but no less that 12) and arrange your memories in chronological order (by the years in which they occurred).
3. Draw a graphic representation or symbol for each memory.
4. Using markers, crayons, or colored pencils, draw a graphic or other symbol for each event. (Example – symbol of birth could be a stork or baby; divorce could be two stick people with a lightning strike down the middle.)
5. Connect the events with a two-lane road or highway

Grading: You will be graded on neatness, attention to detail, and care put into the hand-drawn, colored map.

Some ideas to consider:
• moves you have made—from one house to another or one school district to another
• friends you have made
• grandparents who have died
• pets
• the birth of brothers and sisters
• a time when you got hurt
• a time when you won something
• a special birthday
• a divorce in the family
• a time when you did something embarrassing
• an unexpected death in the family or in the neighborhood
• the day you fell in love with somebody
• the day you fell out of love with somebody
• something that happened to you during a sport or a game
• anything else that is meaningful to you that you want to share

Copy the following poem BY HAND, legibly. Look up any unfamiliar words and prepare definitions.

DUE: Wednesday, 8/10 at the start of class.

(NOTE: A memorized recitation of this poem will happen sometime during the week of 8/22-8/26)

Wild Geese
By Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

After presenting your Introductory Speech, please watch the video of your performance and:
1. Grade yourself according to the rubric and submit to Google Classroom.

Intro rubric

2. Create a one-minute video journal discussing: how you feel about your performance and areas to work on for your next speech.
3. Submit your video to Google Classroom

Our first speaking assignment is here! Speeches will be presented on Friday, 8/5/2016.

Assignment description:
Introductory Speech

Create a video in Photo Booth re: Stage Fright

Think about stage fright…

− If you have it, describe what it does to you or how it makes you feel.
− If you don’t have it, what advice can you offer others?

Create a 1-minute video sharing your thoughts about stage fright.

-Using Photo Booth, create a 1-minute video journal sharing your thoughts about stage fright.

-Create a Speech Folder in Google Drive. Export the Stage Fright video to the folder.

-Send me the link via the assignment in Google Classroom. DO NOT SHARE the file with me.

Video journal guidelines:

-Be appropriately dressed.

-Make sure setting is appropriate for school.

-Be aware of background noise that may interfere with the audio such as fish tanks, TVs or nearby family members.

-Please use a microphone or speak loudly.

-Test listen to your video to make sure you can be heard.

Welcome to the Spring 2016 Semester of Speech Communication. Homework and class resources will be posted here regularly for both parents and students to access.

Here are the first day handouts:

Speech Communication Syllabus
Syllabus 16-17

Parent Agreement Form
Parent Agreement

Storytelling Presentations begin on this week! Please make sure that you practice your story well. Remember that you will need:
-3 figurative language, labeled, on a full size sheet of paper.
-charged computer to video yourself during performance.

If you need another copy of the rubric, it is attached here!

Storytelling rubric

Your speech must include at least 3 types of figurative language. Name the type of figurative language you are using and provide an example from your story of each type. Options for figurative language are: simile, metaphor, alliteration, repetition, opposites, analogy and informal language.

Everyone has at some time or another been a storyteller. You told your tale to an audience, hoping to get a reaction—laughter, empathy, or maybe even fear. For this speech, you will choose a story to tell the class. Your story options are listed below, but whatever you choose, you need to consider the incidents of the story and the order in which they occur. A story must have details and description to bring it to life and make the story clearer to the audience. Make sure that your story is appropriate for the audience.

Where I am From
Learned the Hard Way
The First Time
Lost and Found
Up the Family Tree

See the attached assignment sheet for more details: Storytelling speech

DAY 1 HOMEWORK

Select your story and write a detailed, one page description of it. Make sure to include & label a description of the 1) theme–one of the five on the assignment sheet, 2) characters and their relationship to each other, 3) change: how did you change from beginning to end?, 4) stakes: why did this moment matter to you?

Submit to Google Classroom.