Unit 2: TED TALKS

Model 1              Model 2                

Model 3               Model 4   

Plan Your Speech:

Step 1: Select your topic

Step 2: Research Your Topic

Step 3: Plan/Organize Write your speech 

Step 4: Practice and Provide Peer Feedback

Step 5: Deliver your speech (Speech Tips and Tricks)

Tedx 2022

Tedx 2022" Our MC: Demetrius Dees

Tedx 2022

Tedx 2022: Brandon Leyva

Tedx Kick-Off 2022

Tedx 2022: The day before

Tedx 2022, Network 16 Chief:                 D. LaRosa presents students with awards

Tedx 2022, Network 16 Chief:                 D. LaRosa presents students with awards

Description of Learning: 

In this unit, students will develop analytical and speaking skills by deconstructing TED TALK Speeches. The TED TALKS by Bill Gates will serve as a body of work. This unit will guide students to create their own unique TED talks for the class and possibly a school-wide TED event. TED Talks offer students an opportunity beyond the classroom to have a voice and share “ideas worth spreading.”   

Students will be:  listening to a variety of speeches based on local and global issues; analyzing rhetorical appeals and stylistic techniques that make speeches powerful; researching a topic of your choice that has personal relevance to you; organizing a 2-3 minute soapbox speech. 

Inquiry Statements

Content-based: What approaches/tools are available to guide us in producing a powerful speech? 

Skills based: How do rhetorical and stylistic techniques make speeches effective?

Concept-based: How does a speaker’s mode of communication influence one’s perspective and understanding of a particular culture?  


Learning Objectives

SWBAT develop the skills to analyze how context helps shape language and meaning of speeches.


Project Soapbox, Chicago

Speech 1: Stereotypes by Isabel Resendiz (Aurora) 

Speech 2: Identity by Dominique Del Valle 

Speech 2: Bullying by Christopher Watkins (Morgan Park High School)

Speech 3: Redlining  King Bethel, Detroit, East side)

Speech 4: Embracing Immigrants, Hyacinth

Speech 5: Prescription Drug Abuse, Rayvon, Chicago Military

Speech 6: Cost of College, Mather High School, Chicago

Speech 7: Mental Health, Alisha, ChiArts

Speech 8: Cyberbullying  Yiyang. Jones College Prep

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