Chapter 5: Developing Your Voice

Realxation and Breathing

Quality, Pitch, and Flexibility

Articulation and Pronunciation

Volume and Rate

Projection

Speech Communications

Course Objectives:

Use oral communication to create meaning, influence thought, and make decisions
Utilize appropriate oral communication organizational patterns to communicate;
Demonstrate formal speaking skills including effective use of content, delivery, and media;
Utilize active and critical listening skills;
Demonstrate the ability to manage or overcome communication anxiety.
Use research skills to locate, analyze, and select credible support to effectively communicate a message
Demonstrate awareness of major local, national, and international issues affecting students
Demonstrate respect for self and others when communicating; and
Demonstrate the ability to use appropriate language according to the demands of the social context.

Common Core Writing Standards Addressed:

Key Ideas and Details: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Production and Distribution of Writing

Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.

Common Core Literacy Standards Addressed in this Unit:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.1.D

Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.2.A

Use a semicolon (and perhaps a conjunctive adverb) to link two or more closely related independent clauses.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.2.B

Use a colon to introduce a list or quotation.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.3

Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5.A

Interpret figures of speech (e.g., euphemism, oxymoron) in context and analyze their role in the text.