 Unit
1: Introduction to Public Speaking
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Activities:
- Introduction to Public Speaking - This will include
the main parts of a speech, and tips to make public speaking easier
- Autobiographical Speech - Students will narrate
a speech in which they name a milestone for each year of their life
from birth to their current age
- Demonstration Speech Rubric - Students will complete
a demonstration speech on an action of their choice
- Impromptu Speech Rubric - An object will be selected
and the students will have one minute to compose a speech
- Group Persuasive Speech - Students will be placed
into groups of three to five. They will be asked to take on a role (a
weather reporting team at the site of a natural disaster, a team of
scientists asking for a grant to research extraterrestrial life) and
convince their audience to believe in their cause.
- Current Event Speech Rubric - Throughout the
nine weeks, students will be giving a short speech on a current event
topic. A visual aide will be needed for this speech.
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Assessments:
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Illinois Learning Standards:
- English
Language Arts (Goal 4) -
- 4.A.3d Demonstrate the ability to identify
and manage barriers to listening (e.g., noise, speaker credibility,
environmental distractions).
- 4.B.3a Deliver planned oral presentations,
using language and vocabulary appropriate to the purpose, message
and audience; provide details and supporting information that clarify
main ideas; and use visual aids and contemporary technology as support.
- 4.B.3c Develop strategies to manage or overcome
communication anxiety and apprehension (e.g., sentence outlining,
note cards).
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District Goals Met:
- (Language
Arts) Write narrative, expository and persuasive papers that include
a variety of sentence types with appropriate use of parts of speech,
capitalization, punctuation and correct spelling.
- (Language
Arts) Share my ideas using a variety of media and technologies.
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Unit
2: World Tour
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Activities:
- Students work in groups of two to practice basic
Internet searching skills in order to plan a world tour for their favorite
music performers. Clues
will be given to the students to find seven major world cities that
their performer will be making a stop at.
- Once the information is gathered, the students
will create a PowerPoint presentation highlighting the cities that their
performers will visit. This will include local landmarks, customs, and
useful information that the performer will need to know.
- The presentation will be shown to the class and
the students also must use a song from their performer and compose new
lyrics that will include their world tour.
Thanks to Patrick Thorburn, an instructor at Rolling
Meadows High School for his ideas in this project |
Assessments:
- Research Rubric
- PowerPoint Rubric
- Song Rubric
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Illinois Learning Standards:
- English
Language Arts (Goal 3)
- 3.C.3b Using available technology, produce
compositions and multimedia works for specified audiences.
- English
Language Arts ( Goal 5)
- 5.A.3a Identify appropriate resources to
solve problems or answer questions through research.
- 5.B.3a Choose and analyze information sources
for individual, academic and functional purposes.
- 5.C.3b Prepare and orally present original
work (e.g., poems, monologues, reports, plays, stories) supported
by research.
- 5.C.3c Take notes, conduct interviews, organize
and report information in oral, visual and electronic formats.
- Social
Sciences (Goal 17)
- 17.C.3a Explain how human activity is affected
by geographic factors.
- Social
Sciences ( Goal 18)
- 18.A.3 Explain how language, literature,
the arts, architecture and traditions contribute to the development
and transmission of culture.
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District Goals Met:
- (Language
Arts) Find useful information quickly
in non-fictions sources.
- (Language
Arts) Share my ideas using a variety of media and technologies.
- (RAP)
Goal 1: The student will be able to recognize when a topic needs to
be researched and then organize and conduct a research process.
- Select and use a variety of electronic sources
when researching a topic.
- Select and use a variety of on-line sources
with adult supervision when researching a topic.
- (RAP) Goal
2: The student will think critically about the
accumulated data and create a strategy to communicate it to others.
- Organize data independently.
- Evaluate findings independently.
- Select and organize data so as to communicate
findings within teacher parameters independently.
- Select various media to communicate findings
effectively within teacher parameters independently.
- Choose, access, and use productivity and
multimedia tools to create reports independently.
- Use a variety of productivity tools to organize
data into timelines, tables, charts, or graphs independently.
- (RAP) Goal
3: The student will be able to select and complete publication techniques
appropriate for given data and findings.
- Select multimedia components pertinent to
the presentation independently.
- Select and use presentation applications
in all formats supported by the school independently.
- Select and use multimedia equipment as appropriate
for assigned presentations independently.
- (Technology)
Goal 1: The student will be able to use and troubleshoot applications
to author and publish multimedia presentations.
- Use multimedia tools independently to import
graphics to designated platforms.
- Use multimedia tools independently to import
audio to designated platforms.
- (Technology)
Goal 2: The student will be able to use and troubleshoot telecommunications
tools to send and receive information.
- Use the Internet with teacher supervision
- Find appropriate information utilizing search
engines with supervision.
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Unit 3: Media Matters
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Activities:
- Understand what media is and what role it takes
in your every day life
- Learn about the attitudes, standards, and values
portrayed in mass media
- Evaluate how culture effects media
- Examine prior and current recreational viewing
experiences with television, film and video entertainment
- Analyze advertising techniques
- Investigate the positive and negative aspects
of music, lyrics, and music video
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Assessments:
- Keep a journal of your media viewing
- Create an essay on the subject of media violence
using research
- Pinpoint premises, arguments, and conclusions
in public speaking
- Create a new holiday to draw attention to and
promote awareness of subsets of U.S. culture
- Analyze and evaluate a news source
- Create an advertisement
- Create a music video concept for an existing
piece of music
Some assessment ideas borrowed from Media
Matters, Critical Thinking in the Information Age
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Illinois Learning Standards
- English
Language Arts (Goal 3)
- 3.A.3 Write compositions that contain complete
sentences and effective paragraphs using English conventions.
- 3.B.3a Produce documents that convey a clear
understanding and interpretation of ideas and information and display
focus, organization, elaboration and coherence.
- 3.B.3b Edit and revise for word choice, organization,
consistent point of view and transitions among paragraphs using
contemporary technology and formats suitable for submission and/or
publication.
- 3.C.3a Compose narrative, informative, and
persuasive writings (e.g., in addition to previous writings, literature
reviews, instructions, news articles, correspondence) for a specified
audience.
- English
Language Arts ( Goal 5)
- 5.A.3a Identify appropriate resources to
solve problems or answer questions through research.
- 5.B.3a Choose and analyze information sources
for individual, academic and functional purposes.
- 5.C.3b Prepare and orally present original
work (e.g., poems, monologues, reports, plays, stories) supported
by research.
- 5.C.3c Take notes, conduct interviews, organize
and report information in oral, visual and electronic formats.
- Social
Sciences ( Goal 18)
- 18.A.3 Explain how language, literature,
the arts, architecture and traditions contribute to the development
and transmission of culture.
- 18.A.3b Explain how social institutions contribute
to the development and transmission of culture.
- 18.C.3b Explain how diverse groups have contributed
to U.S. social systems over time
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District Goals Met:
- (Language Arts)
- Write narrative, expository and persuasive
papers that include a variety of sentence types with appropriate
use of parts of speech, capitalization, punctuation and correct
spelling.
- Plan and organize my ideas before I begin
to write.
- Add details to my planned topic so that
the reader will understand my ideas.
- Edit my writing.
- (RAP)
Goal 1: The student will be able to recognize when a topic needs to
be researched and then organize and conduct a research process.
- Select and use a variety of electronic sources
when researching a topic.
- Select and use a variety of on-line sources
with adult supervision when researching a topic.
- (RAP) Goal
2: The student will think critically about the
accumulated data and create a strategy to communicate it to others.
- Organize data independently.
- Evaluate findings independently.
- Select and organize data so as to communicate
findings within teacher parameters independently.
- Select various media to communicate findings
effectively within teacher parameters independently.
- Choose, access, and use productivity and
multimedia tools to create reports independently.
- Use a variety of productivity tools to organize
data into timelines, tables, charts, or graphs independently.
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