Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communication: History of Public Speaking
This lesson offers a brief history of public speaking drawing upon the Western thought from Greece and Rome with Aristotle and Cicero. It lists and discusses the periods and the major speakers of each period.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Interaction in Public Speaking
This lesson focuses on interacting with your audience when delivering a presentation including direct questions and answers and body language.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Credibility Appeals
In this Boundless Communication, students will learn about the importance of credibility in public speaking. There are four sections: defining credibility, types and elements of credibility, building credibility, and ethical usage....
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Speaking in the Real World
This lesson focuses on providing practical tips for speaking in a non-academic setting such as a wedding, charity event, or interview.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Bias in Language
This lesson focuses on bias in language such as gender and cultural bias and how to avoid them in public speaking. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.e
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Writing About Issues in the Media
In this lesson students analyze media coverage of current issues and present their findings in a formal research paper and class presentation.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Sl.4.4: Orally Report on a Topic or Text
Links to 75 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.4.4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to...
Other
Howard Rheingold: Public Speaking
An amusing autobiography of Howard Rheingold, with links to more information.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 2: Unit 10: Los Viajes
In this tenth unit of an intermediate Spanish course, students learn about transportation systems in Spanish-speaking countries and how people travel. They will listen, speak, and write about traveling using related vocabulary. They will...
Teachnology
Teachnology: English Language Arts Lesson Plans
Great lesson plans spanning a wide-range of language arts-related subjects.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Graffiti Wall: Discussing and Responding to Literature
New ways of thinking about text, collaboration with group members, and presentation skills are all developed with this activity which could be applied to almost any novel read in class. Includes student handouts, an online interactive,...
Stanford University
Stanford University: Failure to Communicate
This article from Stanford University outlines the oral communications course from Stanford. The article discusses the need for teaching oral communications.
Mind Tools
Introducation to Communication Skills
This article reveals the purpose of communication: to get your message across to others. This may seem elementary, but the process that involves both the sender of the message and the receiver is complex and can lead to confusion and...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Reagan Laid to Rest After Final Tributes
This article, from National Public Radio, not only documents the funeral ceremonies for former president Ronald Reagan (1911-2004 CE) but also provides a wonderful account of Reagan's life and presidency. Also included are audio clips of...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Conclusion
In this section of a textbook, students learn how to develop and facilitate an effective closing to a speech. It includes links to the following topics: the role of a conclusion, summarizing ideas, and signaling the end of the speech and...
TES Global
Blendspace: Reasoning, Deduction, and Your Next Speech
A learning module that includes eight links to pictures, websites, and activities for using reasoning and deduction in a speech.
Columbia University
Columbia: Tips for Effective Presentations Using Four Important Design Concepts
Excellent, clear guidelines to aid you in using visual aids in a presentation. Curser down to find the information. W.9-10.6 Techno, SL.11-12.5 Audio Visuals
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Impressionism
This article speaks of the development of impressionism. This article discusses the founders of impressionism, how the 1870 war had an effect on art, as well as public opinion about the movement. Includes French translation.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Sojourner Truth
Learn about Sojouner Truth's eventful life from runaway slave to advocate for freedom and fairness. The first African American woman to speak out against slavery in public. (In Spanish)
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Wv Youth Reporting Project
Use the resources in this collection to learn how a middle school teacher from West Virginia promoted reading, research, interviewing, writing and speaking skills as his students explored some tough issues. Students worked with a public...