Building the Spoken Case: Speech Unit 2, Grade 10 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Building the Spoken Case is Unit 2 of Speech and Communication: Composing, Delivering, and Evaluating Spoken Argument (Grade 10), the Letters & Devotion Speech course, complete in one printable PDF: 10 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 87 pages.

• Criteria for selecting supporting evidence for a spoken argument aimed at a specific audience
• The three organizational patterns for spoken argument taught in this unit
• The match between organizational pattern and a specific audience profile and purpose
• Structural differences between a written essay outline and a spoken-argument outline
• Verbal signposting phrases that substitute for print-only structural cues
• The convention of citing a source aloud in running speech without a visible citation page
• The fit (or mismatch) between a stated organizational pattern and a stated audience profile in a peer’s outline
• The divergence between an outline’s intended structure and the structure actually audible in a recorded delivery of it
• Transfer of pattern-to-audience matching reasoning to a genuinely new audience type
• The boundary between legitimate audience adaptation and misrepresenting one’s own argument

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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