English 9-12: Public Speaking
Does your homeschooler get nervous at the thought of speaking in front of others? Is your homeschoolers public speech filled with stammering, mumbling and confusing or inappropriate phrases? Does your homeschooler wish they had better skills in public speaking? If so, the Public Speaking course for homeschoolers will prove extremely helpful. Homeschoolers everywhere can benefit from this course that is designed to help them become a better, more effective communicator. Proper, clear speech is important for use in everyday life, and this homeschool course will help you develop the confidence you need to succeed as a public speaker, or just improve your overall speaking skills.
Course Outline:
1: Introduction to Public
Speaking
2: Outlining and Delivering a Speech
3: Practicing Your Speech
4: Organization, Emotion and Feelings in Speech
5: Learning
6: Finding an idea
7: Supporting Speech
8: Examples
9: Outlines
10: Getting the Attention of the Audience
11: Gaining and Securing Interest
12: The Handling of Ideas in a Speech
13: Improving Delivery
14: Vocal Quality and Gesture
15: Making the Speech Persuasive
16: Making the Speech Persuasive (Continued)
17: Evidence, Reasoning, and Exploring the Problem
18: Exam: Weeks 10-18
19: Influencing Partisans, Neutrals, and Opponents
20: Persuasive Speeches
21: More Persuasive Speech Techniques
22: Still More Persuasive Speech Techniques
23: Speech Organization
24: Using Humor
25: Speech Organization II
26: Special Occasion Speeches
27: More Special Occasion Speeches
28: Why Speakers Fail
29: Developing and Enlivening Your Presentation
30: Presentation with a Purpose
31: High Content Presentations
32: Introduction Speech Project
33: Introduction Speech Project and Debating Handbook Projects- Final
Week
34: Review Week
35: Finals Week
36: Speeches of the Bible Project