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Speech and Communication: Composing, Delivering, and Evaluating Spoken Argument

Grade 10 · 328 pages · 39 lessons · PDF, print at home

A one-semester applied communication course in which students learn to analyze audiences, listen critically, and compose and deliver spoken messages for real, small, non-classroom audiences (one or two family members, via recording). Students build from listening and audience analysis, through structuring and supporting a spoken argument, to controlling delivery, and finish by integrating all three in a defended, self-evaluated final address. Because no classroom audience is assumed, every speaking task is designed to be recorded and shared with a small real audience, and every unit trains students to evaluate a recording of their own delivery against explicit, named criteria rather than a general impression of how it felt to give it.

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Every unit and lesson in this book, in order. The same lessons are taught online at lettersanddevotion.com, so a family can move between paper and screen.

Speech and Communication: Composing, Delivering, and Evaluating Spoken Argument

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Unit 1: Listening Critically, Reading an Audience9 lessons
  1. 1.Claim vs. support in a spoken argument
  2. 2.The four organizational patterns (problem-solution, chronological, cause-effect, comparison), applied via the taught signal-phrase test
  3. 3.The four organizational patterns (problem-solution, chronological, cause-effect, comparison)
  4. 4.Bias and unsupported assertion in spoken argument
  5. 5.Point of view as expressed through organizational pattern and evidence choice, across two contrasting speakers
  6. 6.Audience profile: prior knowledge, values, disposition, likely objections
  7. 7.Criteria-based evaluation vs. general impression of a spoken performance
  8. 8.Integrated application of claim/support, organizational pattern, and bias detection to novel spoken arguments
  9. 9.The difference between demographic stereotyping and individualized audience analysis
Unit 2: Building the Spoken Case10 lessons
  1. 10.Criteria for selecting supporting evidence for a spoken argument aimed at a specific audience
  2. 11.The three organizational patterns for spoken argument taught in this unit
  3. 12.The match between organizational pattern and a specific audience profile and purpose
  4. 13.Structural differences between a written essay outline and a spoken-argument outline
  5. 14.Verbal signposting phrases that substitute for print-only structural cues
  6. 15.The convention of citing a source aloud in running speech without a visible citation page
  7. 16.The fit (or mismatch) between a stated organizational pattern and a stated audience profile in a peer's outline
  8. 17.The divergence between an outline's intended structure and the structure actually audible in a recorded delivery of it
  9. 18.Transfer of pattern-to-audience matching reasoning to a genuinely new audience type
  10. 19.The boundary between legitimate audience adaptation and misrepresenting one's own argument
Unit 3: Controlling and Evaluating Delivery9 lessons
  1. 20.Organizational pattern as a structural feature that delivery can obscure or reveal
  2. 21.The nine named delivery criteria used in the course rubric
  3. 22.The definitions of the six vocal-delivery criteria as fixed labels applied to pre-selected descriptions
  4. 23.Vocal delivery criteria applied to contrasted recorded examples
  5. 24.The independence of delivery quality from organizational structure as separate evaluative dimensions
  6. 25.Conflict between verbal claims and nonverbal physical delivery signals (gesture, posture, eye contact) and its effect on audience interpretation
  7. 26.One's own recorded delivery performance evaluated against the complete delivery rubric
  8. 27.A targeted, evidence-based revision plan for one's own delivery behaviors
  9. 28.Change over time in one's own targeted delivery behaviors, evidenced across two recordings
Unit 4: Argument Under Pressure: The Defended Address11 lessons
  1. 29.Cumulative Units 1-3 vocabulary set (audience profile, claim/support, organizational pattern, delivery criteria)
  2. 30.Vulnerability of a specific claim or evidence choice to counterargument
  3. 31.The difference between a straw objection and the strongest real objection
  4. 32.The difference between a rebuttal that restates the claim and one that engages the objection's specific content
  5. 33.The strongest likely objection of a specific real audience member to a specific claim
  6. 34.Rebuttal segment integrated into an existing organizational pattern
  7. 35.The cumulative four-part evaluation rubric (audience, structure, delivery, rebuttal)
  8. 36.The distinction between structural argument-strengthening and delivery polish
  9. 37.Self-evaluation of one's own recorded address against a named-criteria rubric
  10. 38.Discrepancy between self-evaluation and audience response to the same delivered argument
  11. 39.A general decision principle for resolving self-evaluation/audience disagreement across stakes levels

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