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Middle school oral communication unit plans
Create a Podcast | Media and Language Unit
Unleash your student's creativity by combining technology and 21st century media literacy in this interactive, fun podcast unit. This printable and digital unit is conveniently designed for you to scaffold the process of creating podcasts. Begin with interactive lessons to teach students about the components of a podcast and then allow their creativity to soar as they create their own. Suitable for grades 3 and up, this unit includes editable portions to adapt it to your learning goals. Teacher
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Language Writing Units Volume ONE
Teaching Ethos, Pathos, Logos with Commercials | Rhetorical Device Activity
Teaching ethos, pathos, and logos is paramount for older students. They should understand these famous persuasive techniques to better their speeches and papers. When teaching rhetorical analysis, you will also cover ethos, pathos, and logos.This bundle demonstrates examples of ethos, pathos, and logos with commercials and asks students to analyze how these incorporations persuade audiences. As a culminating activity, students will sort topics into their best label: ethos, pathos, or logos.Inclu
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8th - 12th
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Public Speaking Unit Impromptu, How-To, Narrative, Informative, and More
Teaching a speech unit or public speaking course can be complex because so many aspects go into making a successful speech lesson. This file has a variety of tools to engage students as they grow as public speakers. It contains every public speaking activity in my store, plus many more speech activities. I also have a detailed (week by week) outline of how I run a public speaking class. NOTE: An eighteen-week (complete semester) outline for everything in this public speaking bundle is in the pre
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7th - 11th
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Demonstration Speeches Unit
Use this Demonstration Speeches unit to teach demonstration speeches in a simple and fun way! These public speaking lessons will guide you in showing your students how to give a demonstration or "how-to" speeches and will help improve their speaking and listening! This speech unit is easy-to-use and to follow along with.If you want to teach your Public Speaking, Debate, or English/ELA students how to give a demonstration speech, this unit is for you!The unit includes 4 days of lectures, and at l
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in: Speech Units Bundle
DEBATING UNIT BUNDLE: 30 DETAILED LESSON PLANS
Save 30% on this complete DEBATE UNIT of 30 (or more!) very detailed debate lesson plans. Debate graphic organizers, debate handouts, dozens of debate topics and resolutions, debate rubrics, a 'Debate Basics' PowerPoint, 12 games, a cross examination how-to video- PHEW! And there's $7 off this print-and-go bundle. There's even TWO freebies! Debate Unit in 18 lessons is tailored to teach students how to debate about contemporary issues. It begins at basics, and proceeds step-by-step to tournam
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8th - 12th
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Informative Speech Unit - Up to 2 weeks of instruction
Use this informative speech unit to teach informative speaking in a simple and fun way! These public speaking lessons are a great way to teach your students how to speak to inform. You and your students can meet speaking and listening standards in an effective way while they explore informative speech topics that are interesting to them. If you want to teach your Public Speaking, Oral Comm, or English/ELA students how to give an effective informative speech, then these informative speech activit
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in: Speech Units Bundle
Teaching Audience Analysis with Commercials
Students must analyze their audiences before giving a speech or writing a paper. This presentation and subsequent activities will walk students through audience analysis by watching commercials. Included in this audience analysis activity:✓ Powerpoint: covers the definition and components of audiences; examines audiences; includes four (clean, school-appropriate) commercials links.✓ Questions: includes analysis of each commercial through by looking at the target audience and the commercial's eff
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8th - 12th
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Speech Drama Unit for Middle & High School Drama
Speech Drama Unit
This 56 page unit plan + 19 page PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach your students about speech. This unit has students exploring speech through a variety of activities, assignments and presentations.
The skills and objectives that will be met through this unit include:
- Vocal technique
- Expression & vocal qualities
- Articulation
- Parts of the body associated with vocal technique
This is a unit I have experience teaching successfully at the middle or seni
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Grades:
5th - 12th
Also included in: Drama Unit Bundle 2
Speech Units Bundle
This speech unit bundle is a great tool for anyone teaching public speaking, language arts, or oral communication! Teaching the basics of giving a speech? Snatch up all of my public speaking units and you're good to go! The units included: Informative SpeakingPersonal Experience SpeechesIntroduction SpeechesDemonstration SpeechesPersuasive SpeechesLots of creative activities, ideas, organization tips, PowerPoints, and games are all included! Materials are also included to extend any lesson as n
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8th - 11th
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Holes Mock Trials - a court simulation activity
This resource is included in Holes available at our store. Holes Mock Trials is an activity that facilitates many ELA learning outcomes in a way that is highly engaging for students. They will develop research skills, engage in critical thinking, defend a position, play the role of a character in court, and practice presentation skills. Students will learn about the judicial system as they participate in a mock trial of their own.This resource includes:Teacher NotesCourt InstructionsCourt Proced
Grades:
5th - 8th
Personal Narrative Public Speaking Unit with Random Acts of Kindness
This unit includes everything you need to execute a successful personal narrative speech in your classroom. After several years of teaching this unit to secondary students, I have found it to be one of my favorites! Students must first stretch their comfort zones by performing random acts of kindness -- and then they must learn to skillfully craft the retelling of their adventures in a fun but polished speech.This public speaking unit includes the following quality resources:8 Pages of Daily L
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Public Speaking Bundle
Beginning Debate Curriculum
Got a first-time debater? What about a novice? Upgrade Your Beginning Debate Instruction with this 16-Week Beginning Debate CurriculumThis comprehensive curriculum is designed to take novices and give them the skills and confidence to excel at debating, whether it's around the dinner table or at a National Speech and Debate Association competition. Aligned with Common Core English Language Arts Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing Standards for grades 9-10, this Beginning Debate Curriculum
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Debate Curriculum Bundle
Impromptu Interviews - perfecting the art of conversation
Impromptu Interviews is a mini unit about the art of interviewing where students analyze what happens in a good interview. In the culminating activity, students will participate in impromptu interviews. They will prepare for these as interviewers without knowing beforehand who they will interview. This will help to preserve the true nature of interviews, which are not rehearsed in advance. Interviewees, chosen at random, will play the role of the person being interviewed. A wide range of scenari
Grades:
5th - 8th
Yearbook- Journalism Introduction Unit
Journalism Introduction Unit
-5 Days of Lesson Plans
-Activities
-Handouts
-Links to Articles
-Graphic Organizers
-Performance Task Assessment
This unit is designed to introduce yearbook students to journalism for yearbook. Lessons are collaborative and hands on. The goal is to get the yearbook staff comfortable talking to the student body as quickly as possible while still teaching the essential parts of journalism.
This unit pays particular attention to what makes a good story and how to ask
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6th - 10th
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Public Speaking Lesson Plans for Middle School Students
Public Speaking Lesson Plans for Middle School Students contains 14 one-hour lessons on public speaking appropriate for students ages 10-14. The lessons are designed to be flexible, whether they are to be used with a large English class or a small homeschool group.
Most lessons are broken into two sections, which can be separated into half-hour lessons or rearranged on different days to better accommodate the number of speech days needed for the class size. For a class of 10 or fewer, this ma
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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Visual Art: Junior (Grades 4 - 6) Watercolour Landscape Painting Unit
This junior integrated art unit includes links from visual arts to language arts, rubric for assessment of learning, list of success criteria and looks fors, prompts and handouts for viewing/discussing art, images of sample works as well as peer evaluation and written reflection forms. I have outlined the specific expectations of the Ontario Arts Curriculum in addition to the elements of design being taught in these lessons. A comprehensive and fun painting unit for you and your class to enjoy!T
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4th - 6th
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Public Speaking Unit | IMPROMPTU SPEAKING LESSON PLANS
This public speaking unit, with 7 detailed lesson plans, gently leads public speaking beginners through a series of fun impromptu speaking activities in duos and small groups until they are ready to speak in front of the whole class. Impromptu speaking can initially be scary but becomes oodles of fun if students are eased in slowly!Why do it?Even in a world dominated by social media, speaking is as important as ever. And circumstances don’t always allow for the careful preparation of a speech- s
Grades:
6th - 11th
Also included in: DEBATING and IMPROMPTU SPEAKING UNITS - 25 Detailed Lesson Plans
3-Week Project BUNDLE: UN Social Issues Summit Persuasive Speech & Presentation
OVERVIEW:This Common Core aligned project is appropriate for middle school students in grades 6-8. It takes approximately 3 weeks to complete, and most class time should be devoted to some aspect of the project. The standards are spiraled throughout the project; the goal of the project is to motivate students to master Writing, Speaking/Listening, and Reading Informational Text standards through a project-based learning experience that is driven by student choice and passion.The unit begins with
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6th - 9th
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Language Arts Project-Based Unit - The Book of Awesome - Creative Writing
In this project based unit student's will be asked to make text to self connections when using Neil Pasricha's Book of Awesome as an inspiration for their own creative writing. Students will work independently and collaboratively towards a shared goal of creating a published final product that features writing from every student. This project focuses on the writing process, voice, style, conventions, purpose and audience. Included is assessment as, of and for learning in the form of self and pee
Grades:
4th - 7th
Beginning Public Speaking Curriculum
Do you dream of a world where your students master public speaking basics? Look no further than this resource: Beginning Public Speaking CurriculumThis comprehensive curriculum is all you need for a 14-week public speaking course suitable for middle school or high school students. Aligned with Common Core English Language Arts Standards for Grades 6-12, it covers an introduction to public speaking and confidence, as well as four different speeches: 1) A speech containing logical fallacies, 2) an
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Public Speaking Curriculum Bundle
DEBATING AND PUBLIC SPEAKING 55 LESSONS Mammoth Bundle
Save $19 on these complete DEBATE AND PUBLIC SPEAKING UNITS, + games and activities. In the 402 pages of this bundle there are 41 very detailed step-by-step debate and public speaking lesson plans and material for a MINIMUM of 14 more teacher directed lessons= 55 lessons in total. In fact, if you do the Current Events assignment and journal entries regularly, the bundle materials will easily last you more than a whole SEMESTER. In addition to the lesson plans, stacks of printable handouts, fun s
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Grades:
8th - 12th
People of the American Revolution Project: Poster People, Speech, and Wax Museum
This is a Project Packet that includes student directions and teacher guidelines for a biography report and speech over important figures in the late 1700s and early 1800s during the American Revolution. This project outline was originally created for a fifth grade class, but could be used for other grades as well.
Included in this packet:
-General Instructions for students with timeline for due dates
-Specific Instructions for students that outline step by step how to complete the project
-Po
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4th - 6th
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French Public Speaking Speeches - Discours d'art oratoire UNIT
6 week-long fun unit that keeps your students busy and talking French!
This unit walks you and your students through the process of:
- choosing a topic for their speech
- researching their topic
- writing their speech
- revising and correcting their speech
- writing cue-cards
- memorizing their speech
- presenting their speech in front of the class
- choosing two class winners.
*** Word document, allowing you to adapt/adjust to your classroom needs and routines.
I have used this unit in Grade
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4th - 12th
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Mr. Harper's Public Speaking and Reading Textbook Thingee
Dear Teachers,I’ve entitled my first book, Mr. Harper’s Public Speaking and Reading Textbook Thingee (where he keeps trine to make us talk good) not simply out of whimsy but as a means to point out the declining gifts of articulation amongst our students. This book was developed for two purposes. The first is to provide schools with the materials needed to create two new elective courses for their students devoted to public speaking, reading and acting. The second purpose is to give our beleague
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Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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