Objectives
Students will:
- Identify a speaker's main ideas and supporting details.
- Analyze a speech's level of formality (identifying the elements that establish its level of formality).
- Evaluate the effectiveness of a speech, including its likely impact on various members of its audience.
- Revise a speech to make it more precise and concise.
- Adapt a speech for a formal context.
Skills Needed
Students must be able to:
- Draft a short speech about an issue that you care about, using rhetorical strategies to inspire others to care about the issue as well.
