Matilda Court Case



Speech and Debate I Outline

1st Semester:

➢ Improv games (Chaos Drama, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, etc.)

➢ Personal User Manual Writing Assignment

➢ Teamwork/Group Survival Activities

➢ Children’s Literature

▪ Read children’s literature for maximum 1 minute using minimum two voices

➢ Life as an Object Speech (Videotape)

• Choose an everyday object and give a 1-2 minute speech on life from its perspective

➢ Introduction to Speech

• The Fear of Speaking

• Warming Up for Speaking

• Vocal Variety

• Articulation and Tongue Twisters

• Body Language

• Power Pause

• Power Poetry

• Watch famous speeches from history and in the movies to demonstrate points

➢ Watch and Analyze The King’s Speech for speech elements

➢ Awards Acceptance Speeches (Videotape)

• Have students pair up, interview each other, and then create a creative award to present

➢ Storytelling

• Group Trust Exercises

• Tell a story from your life with a visual that will engage an audience

➢ Elements of the Speech

• Power Openers (Power Quotes—create their own quote database)

o Odd Book Titles Activity

o Book Pitch speech

• Body and Conclusions of Speeches

• Watch and analyze Dave for speech elements

➢ Commemorative Speech (Videotape)

• Appropriate attire guidelines for formal speeches

• Choose an historical event of significance and write a speech commemorating it on its anniversary

➢ Cartoon Character Eulogy Speech (Videotape)

➢ News Broadcast Group Speech (Videotape)

• Fairy Tale News Activity (work as a group to report on a famous fairy tale as a news story)

➢ Famous Person Speeches

• Give Example Speech with PowerPoint on Life of Adolph Hitler

• Choose a famous person, research, and create a PowerPoint to present to the class.

• Dress as the person for the speech.

➢ Demonstration Speeches (Videotape)

• Watch Julie and Julia for elements of demonstration (also show clips of Julia Childs’ cooking show)

• Improv Olympics Activity

• Teach the class a skill by demonstrating a process

➢ Pet Peeve Speech (Videotape)

➢ Persuasive Speech** (Videotape)

• Introduce elements of Persuasion

• Choose a topic and write a 3-5 minute persuasive speech on the topic

• Watch and analyze Footloose for persuasive elements

**Make sure you address being an objective presenter/debater, especially with the persuasive speech, as you need to lay the groundwork for debate.

Speech and Debate I Outline

2nd Semester:

➢ Analyze first and last speech from the previous quarter

➢ Teamwork/Team Building Activities

➢ Watch The Great Debaters to analyze debate techniques and format

➢ Using Evidence in Debate

▪ Website evaluation

▪ Watch and analyze Nuremberg for analysis of evidence used in the Nuremberg Trials

➢ The Structure of Debate

▪ Lincoln-Douglas Debate structure

▪ Creating an argument

▪ Closing your argument (use excerpt of closing argument in A Time to Kill)

▪ Resolution Breakdown

➢ Parking Debate

Work in groups to write and argue a debate about parking for high school students

➢ Value Debate: The Value of Believing in Santa Claus

▪ Watch Miracle on 34th Street for argument analysis and evidence for debate

▪ Have students argue both sides of the following resolution:

Parents should encourage their children to believe in Santa Claus.

➢ Debate Skills

• Refuting

• Attacking

• Cross Examination

• Logical Fallacies

• Flowing (practice flowing with example debates on National Forensic League’s site)

➢ Public Forum Debate

➢ Watch Outbreak and have students write a persuasive argument about the issue of bombing innocent civilians to contain the outbreak.

➢ Court Cases and Argument

• Watch Matilda and have students act out a court case where the parents are suing for custody of their daughter

➢ Lincoln-Douglas Debate

▪ Review structure of Lincoln-Douglas Debate

▪ Students choose topics and write individual cases, researching both sides of the issue.

▪ Random drawing determines which side they will argue.

➢ Dramatic Interpretation

• Using Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, students take a scene from the play and work with a partner to memorize and creatively interpret the scene, acting it out as part of their final exam.

• Watch 10 Things I Hate About You and Kiss Me, Kate to give them an idea of the full plot line.

All of the above items are subject to change.

Exam:

33% Impromptu Speech

33% Written Portion

33% Essay

➢ Life as an Object Speech (Videotape) Sept 6

➢ Awards Acceptance Speeches Sept 13

➢ Storytelling Sept 20

➢ Commemorative Speeches Sept 27

➢ News Broadcast Group Speech Oct 4

➢ Famous Person Speeches Oct 11

➢ Demonstration Speeches Oct 18

➢ Persuasive Speech** (Videotape) Oct 25

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