Listening Critically, Reading an Audience: Speech Unit 1, Grade 10 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Listening Critically, Reading an Audience is Unit 1 of Speech and Communication: Composing, Delivering, and Evaluating Spoken Argument (Grade 10), the Letters & Devotion Speech course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 76 pages.

• Claim vs. support in a spoken argument
• The four organizational patterns (problem-solution, chronological, cause-effect, comparison), applied via the taught signal-phrase test
• The four organizational patterns (problem-solution, chronological, cause-effect, comparison)
• Bias and unsupported assertion in spoken argument
• Point of view as expressed through organizational pattern and evidence choice, across two contrasting speakers
• Audience profile: prior knowledge, values, disposition, likely objections
• Criteria-based evaluation vs. general impression of a spoken performance
• Integrated application of claim/support, organizational pattern, and bias detection to novel spoken arguments
• The difference between demographic stereotyping and individualized audience analysis

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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