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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Getting the Most Out of a Persuasive Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on presenting a good persuasive speech. It discusses the selective exposure theory, kinds of appeals, and expectations.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Evidentiary Appeals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This activity focuses on the use of evidentiary appeals in persuasive speeches including definition, evaluating your evidence, and strategies for using evidence effectively. Click on next at the bottom right to continue.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Principles of Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the importance of organizing your speech including critically thinking about the contents of the speech, the components of the speech, the patterns of organization to fit the different types of speeches, and...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Main Points

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on choosing the main points of your speech based on your audience and purpose. It also discusses ordering and highlighting your main points using visual and textual cues and using a variety of examples.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the introduction to your speech. It includes the role of the introduction, strategies for the opening, getting attention and interest, establishing credibility, self-presentation, and introducing the topic, thesis,...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Conclusion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on writing the conclusion of your speech including the role of the conclusion, summarizing ideas, signaling the end, and managing Q&A.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Outlining

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on outlining your speech including the reasons for outlining, the kinds of outlines including their purpose what goes into each.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity focuses on understanding the language, both verbal and non-verbal, of your speech. It discusses the importance of language, word choice, purpose and audience, ways of thinking about language, venue and...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Using Language Effectively

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on using language effectively in your speech including using clear words and phrases, defining key terms, writing descriptively, using vivid language, considering your style and tone, and determining and...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Methods of Delivery

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a comprehensive instructional activity on four speech delivery methods and the advantages and disadvantages of each; it also discusses how to make your speech "real."
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Speaking in the Real World

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on providing practical tips for speaking in a non-academic setting such as a wedding, charity event, or interview.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Effective Visual Delivery

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on effective visual delivery including appropriate dress and open posture, eye contact and facial expressions, body movements and gestures, and effective visual aids.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Rehearsing the Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the importance of rehearsing a speech and the methods of rehearsing a speech including rehearsal through analysis and synthesis, simulated experience, mimic timing and context, practice with all the parts in place,...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Introduction to Informative Speaking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is an introduction to informational speeches including a definition, types of informative speeches, and topics.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Process: Prewriting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on prewriting including the purpose and characteristics of prewriting, prewriting strategies, the rhetorical context, and developing a working thesis statement. It also includes a slide show about author, audience,...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Appeals: Appeals to Pathos

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on appeals to pathos; to connect to the audience by evoking emotions or by suggesting that author and audience share attitudes, beliefs, and values.
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Introduction to Building Common Ground

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This introduction discusses the need for researching your audience and learn strategies to find common ground.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Audience Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on audience analysis and recognizing rhetorical approaches to building common ground. A practice activity is provided.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Audience Awareness

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on audience awareness by recognizing and evaluating rhetorical approaches to building common ground. It also provides an example.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Contextual Factors to Consider

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this Boundless Communication presentation, students will learn about contexts to consider when preparing a speech including physical, the psychology of audience, audience opinion of you and topic, and audience knowledge of the topic.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Outlining

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website focuses on students the importance of having of outlining; it offers links to the discussion of four outlining concepts: Reasons for outlining, the Preparation outline, the Speaking outline, and the Rough Draft outline.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Rehearsing the Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students will learn ways and reasons to rehearse for a speech.
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Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Creating and Using Presentation Note Cards

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module focuses on learning how to create presentation note cards and use them during a speech. The lesson is followed by a quiz.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: The Importance of Audience Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The first question you should ask yourself, before you begin crafting your speech, is this: "Who is my audience?" As you begin to answer this question for yourself, here are some key elements to consider as you begin to outline and...