City International Schools
American City
College
Semester 1 Plan
Academic Year: 2017-2018
Semester: First
(September 12th – December 7th)
Grade: 9
Subject: Public
Speaking
Teacher: Zahra
Ismael
Head of Department: Mrs.
Dalia El Tayeb
® Chapters:
1.
Chapter One: Speaking With Confidence
2.
Chapter Two: Speaking Freely and
Ethically
3.
Chapter Three: Listening to Speeches
4.
Chapter Four: Analyzing Your Audience
5.
Chapter Five: Developing Your Speech
6.
Appendix A: Speaking in Small Groups
® Quarter Assignments:
1.
Tests: 2-3 Tests
2.
Quizzes: 4-6 Quizzes
3.
Homework: 1 assignment weekly.
4.
Projects: 4-6 Projects
5.
Researches: 3-4 Researches
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Chapter Name
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Chapter Contents
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Objectives
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Chp.
1 Speaking with Confidence
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· Topic 1: Why Study Public Speaking?
· 2: The Communication Process
· 3: Improving Your Confidence as a Speaker
· 4: Overview of Audience-Centered Public Speaking
· 5: Considering Audience
· 6: Determining Purpose
· 7: Generating Main Ideas
· 8: Gathering Supporting Materials
· 9: Rehearsing Speech
· 10: Deliver your Speech
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Preview the
audience-centered speaking processes to offer a complete introduction to
public speaking.
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Emphasize the importance
of and research the biological causes and effects of speech anxiety as well
as provide guidelines for channeling physiological arousal in ways that help
the speaker.
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Explore anxiety styles to
help students choose confidence-building tips that are most effective for
each of their styles.
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Introducing the
importance of how the timing of the speech anxiety can help the speakers to
time their use of confidence-building strategies for maximum effect.
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Chp.
2 Speaking Freely and Ethically
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· Topic 1: Speaking Freely
· 2: Speaking Ethically
· 3: Using Evidence and Reasoning, Being Sensitive and Tolerant
of Differences, and Being Honest.
· 4: Speaking Credibly
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Using the First Amendments
evolution to help the students understand the rights to freedom of speech.
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Reinforcing the
importance of ethics and remaining audience centered.
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Connects concepts across
chapters of the book (Ethics of Speech, Ethics of the Listener, Speaker-to-audience
rights and vice versa).
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Chp.
3 Listening to Speeches
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· Topic 1: Overcoming Barriers to Effective Listening
· 2: How to Become a Better Listener
· 3: Listening Skillfully and Ethically
· 4: Improving Listening and Critical Thinking Skills
· 5: Analyzing and Evaluating Speeches
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· Introducing the Working
Memory Theory which helps students understand how to cope with information
overload the can impede listening.
· Summarizing the research on the importance of awareness of
one’s own listening to guide the students to assess how well they stay
on-task as listeners.
· Reinforcing the importance of ethics when listening
(introduced in the previous chp.)
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Chp.
4 Analyzing Your Audience
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Topic 1: Gathering
Information about Audience
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2: Analyzing Information
Gathered about Audience
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3: Adapting to Audience
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4: Analyzing Audience
before You Speak
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5: Adapting to Audience
as you
Speak
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6: Analyzing your
Audience After you Speak
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· Discussing the methods for gathering information including the
use of Internet and Social Media.
· Redefining the terms race, ethnicity, and culture to help
students clarify the importance of adapting to the audiences’ cultural
diversity regardless of topic.
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Appendix A
Speaking in Small Groups
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· Topic 1: Solving Problems in Groups and Teams
· 2: Participating in Small Groups
· 3: Leading Small Groups
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Listing and explaining
the five steps to problem solving within groups and/or teams.
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Emphasizing the
importance of enforcing the proper order of the aforementioned steps.
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Introducing Leadership
Styles.
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