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

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.

After presenting your introductory speech, please watch the video of your performance and:
1. Grade yourself according to the rubric (attached) and submit here.
2. Create a one-minute video journal discussing: how you feel about your performance and areas to work on for your next speech.
3. Post your video to YouTube (UNLISTED) and submit the link to the assignment in google classroom

Link to rubric:
Intro rubric.

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.

Upload the video you just created to your YouTube account. Make sure to:
-Set the Privacy Setting to UNLISTED.
-Copy the link YouTube provides, and submit it to GOOGLE CLASSROOM as a LINK for this assignment.

Your video is due by the 2nd day of class:
B-day students: Monday, January 11, 2016
A-day students: Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Your first speech is due on the second day of class:

B-day students: Monday, January 11, 2016
A-day students: Tuesday, January 12, 2016

The Introductory Speech Assignment can be found here:

Introductory Speech

Please be prepared!

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.

First day handouts:

Open Disclsure 15-16

Parent Agreement

The Parent Agreement form is due on the 2nd day of class for all students.

Speech students will be reciting a poem during the 4th quarter as part of the Poetry Out Loud program. Poems must be selected from the Poetry Out Loud website and are due on 10/28/15 for “A-day” students and on 11/4/15 for “B-day” students.

The same word count grading scale from last quarter’s poetry recitation will apply to this recitation:

For the highest grade of a C+ (79): 60-75 words
For the highest grade of a B- (82): 76-100 words
For the highest grade of a B+ (89): 101-125 words
For the highest grade of an A (95): 126-150 words
For the highest grade of an A+ (100): 151+ words

Link to the Poetry Out Loud website: Poetryoutloud.org