General Description: Public Speaking incorporates interpersonal communication skills, audience awareness, research and speech writing techniques.

Content:

• Interpersonal communication;
• Propaganda;
• Informative Speeches;
• Persuasive Speeches;
• Impromptu; Facilitation;
• Audience and Cultural Awareness;
• Rhetoric;
• Induction;
• Deduction;
• Poetry Analysis

Strategies:

Students learn through a combination of:

• Speaking in front of their peers,
• providing feedback,
• speech writing,
• researching and presenting an effective argument for the topic at hand.
• Use of Power Point and other visual aids.