THE PERSUASIVE SPEECH



THE FINAL EXAM

Your final Exam will have two parts to it: a written portion and a speech. The written portion will count as one speech grade for the second nine weeks; the final exam will count for 20% of your final grade (Each 9 weeks counting 40%).

Part 1-- Written Exam: Be prepared for 7 questions on the following topics:

1. Elements of a good opening and closing of a speech and the importance of the introduction and conclusion.

2. What is needed to prepare for and deliver an extemporaneous speech; what is needed to prepare for and deliver a manuscript speech.

3. The importance of the following in a speech: Stance and posture; Eye contact; Facial expressions; Gestures; Appropriate volume; Appropriate rate; Conversational style; Enunciation/pronunciation; Vocal variety/inflection; Comfortable/decisive movement on stage.

4. What is credibility and why is it important?

5. Informative vs. persuasive speaking.

6. Effective vs. ineffective public speaker.

Part 2--Type of Speech:

Students will deliver a 5-7 minute oratory that will use all the kiss you have learned throughout the year and combines some of the elements of speeches already delivered: persuasive, motivational, informative, perhaps even the speech to entertain. It should provide insight into who you are as a person; and it should motivate your audience to understand and adopt a certain attitude. Your speech will be based around a quote.

Purpose:

• To allow the audience learn something personal about you, your values, who you are, and who you want to become.

• To persuade your audience to adopt a particular attitude (or even to do something).

• To motivate your audience to act on your advice or agree with your perspective.

• To review ideas/information for your topic using valid sources as appropriate.

• To develop a working outline for your speech.

• To use notecards (or no aids) in your delivery.

Assignment:

A. Select your quote

B. Research your topic as necessary

C. Develop a detailed outline for your speech.

D. Create notecards.

E. Practice your speech.

F. Perform your speech (5 – 7 minutes)—anything less than five will be a letter grade deduction

Topics:

You are encouraged to come up with an angle for your quote to fit your interests and allow the audience to see who you are. Consider also what you think would be of interest to this particular audience (your classmates).

Areas of Critique:

Voice—All aspects

Eye contact

Posture/Stance

Gestures

Use of emotion/energy

Use of humor (optional)

Movement (optional)

Content

--Attention Getter/Opening

--Organization (Need, Satisfaction, Visualization used in motivational speeches)

--persuasive techniques

--Credibility—personal insight

--Effective Writing Techniques

--Closing

Use of Notecards or no aid

May Not Use Podium

5-7 Minutes

Quotes From Which to Choose:

❖ “To thine own self be true.” --William Shakespeare

❖ “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” --Mother Teresa

❖ “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” --Voltaire

❖ We must become the change we want to see.” –Mahatma Gandhi

❖ Those who play the game do not see it as clearly as those who watch.” --Chinese Proverb

❖ "I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his

dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success

unexpected in common hours." --Henry David Thoreau

❖ “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” --Albert Einstein

❖ “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” --Mother Teresa

❖ No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” --Aesop

❖ “Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.” --Victor Hugo

❖ “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” --Ralph

Waldo Emerson

❖ “One who damages the character of another damages his own.” --African proverb

❖ “he who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend, loses more; but he who loses

courage loses all.” –Cervantes

❖ “There is no substitute for hard work.” --Thomas Edison

❖ “Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows.” --Helen Keller

❖ “Light is not recognized except through darkness.” --Jewish Proverb

❖ “Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.” --Henry David Thoreau

❖ “Men trust their ears less than their eyes.” --Herodutus

❖ “A loud vice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it’s a whisper.” --Unknown

❖ “Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” --Unknown

❖ “Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.” --African Proverb

❖ “Believe in miracles but don’t depend on them.” --Unknown

❖ “A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” --Lao-tzu

❖ “Be not a slave to your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall

come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and

overlook the old.” --Ralph Waldo Emerson

❖ “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” --Henry Ford

❖ “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less

because of that missing drop.” –Mother Teresa

❖ The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” –Mahatma Gandhi

❖ “Don’t let yesterday use of too much of today.” --Will Rogers

❖ “The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” --Unknown

❖ “I have regretted my speech, seldom my silence.” --Livy

❖ “It’s great to be great. But it’s greater to be human.” –Will Rogers

❖ “A happy heart is better than a full purse.” --Italian Proverb

❖ “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands

at times of challenge and controversy.” --Martin Luther King, Jr.

❖ "Without character, we have no legacy." --Coach Herman Boone

❖ “If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” --Mother Teresa

❖ “We can do no great things; only small things with great love.” --Mother Teresa

❖ “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” –Mahatma Gandhi

❖ “However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.” --Henry David

Thoreau

❖ "Working patiently toward larger goals, you will succeed if that's important to you. It's okay to rest, but

never quit." --Coach Herman Boone

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