Day 36 (B)-Review for Exam & Turnitin Submissions

SPEECH 1: Early Dismissal Wednesday

• Completed
  • 7th Period we will view the Wellness Wednesday for September & then go over the exam Review after lunch:

EXAM REVIEW FOR FRIDAY

• • • Julian Treasure
      •  HAIL
        • Honesty, Authenticity, Integrity, Love

• • • • Terminology
        • Register : We vote for politicians with lower voices
        • Timbre: Research says we want voices that are “rich, smooth, warm”
        • Prosody: Avoid being monotonous, overly repetitive, or incorrect questioning tone
        • Pace
          1. Speed – varying for emphasis
          2. Silence – dramatic pausing
          3. “Don’t need to fill it with ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’
        • Pitch
        • Volume
      • “What would the world be like if we were speaking powerfully to people who were listening consciously in environments that were actually fit for purpose?”

• • • • Nonverbal expressions of power and dominance:
        • expanding and taking up space (Powerful)
        • wrap ourselves up, make ourselves small (Powerless)
      • the relationship between body language and gender? (Women tend to position themselves smaller and lose power)
      • “Do our bodies change our minds?” YES!!!
      • Meaningful life changes & applications:
        1. Evaluative, social threat situations, Public speaking and selling, Job interviews
        2. “Don’t fake it ‘till you make it… fake it until you become it.”

1. 1. 1. • What is he doing with his WORDS to create structure and flow? (Intentional word repetition)
         • What is he doing with his VOCALS and/or body to hook you? (Small hand gestures, good eye contact, upright posture, pausing, not very loud (drawing you in)
         • Speakers need to be able to tell a story or narrative; the content and the performance must matter.

• • • • The way that ideas are conveyed the most effectively is through story
      • Hero Archetype:
        1. Likable hero in an ordinary world
        2. Call to adventure
        3. Hero’s refusal of the call
        4. Meeting with the mentor
        5. Crossing the Threshold
      • Combine Aristotle and Joseph Campbell):
        1. Act 1: Beginning – Likeable hero
        2. Act 2: Middle – Encounters roadblocks
        3. Act 3: End – Emerges transformed
      • 5-Act story structure (Be Able to Label a plot pyramid)
        1. Exposition
        2. Rising Action
        3. Climax
        4. Falling Action
        5. Denouement
      • A great presentation must address the:
        1. THE PROBLEM
        2. THE SOLUTION
        3. Break down audience resistance (also known as COUNTER-ARGUMENTS)
      • Review Dr. King’s Structure
        1. Dr. Martin Luther King: “I have a dream” speech
           • Used breaths and pauses effectively
           • Had a cadence and a rhythm
           • Used repetition often
           • Used metaphors and visual words (make complicated ideas simple, like “scenes”)
           • Used familiar songs, scriptures, and political references (allusion)
           • Caused audience to clap often (again, audience physical involvement)
           • Goes back and forth between bad and good more rapidly at the end to increase “frenzied pace”
           • He “reached inside the hearts of the audience” to create his new bliss

• • • • What are the overall BIG Ideas for Speech Presentations and writing a good speech
      • What was some of the additional advice imparted in the 5 Articles that we read?