Tuesday August 30th, 2016

Agenda

• Intro
• Icebreaker
• Major Project

Icebreaker

Short, 15 - 30 minute, activities that get campers ready for our daily activity and major projects. Icebreakers include games like charades, tongue twisters, telephone game, and more.

Charades!
Students play a few rounds of charades to encourage organized thoughts and actions, as well as speaking skills.

Daily Activity 

Focus on communicating clearly, organizing and structure, intriguing our audience, planning for the unpredictable, and thinking positively while coping with nerves. Some activities are team oriented, and others are for individual work. Speaking goals campers achieve with the daily activities are; eliminating fillers, focusing on one goal, self confidence, organization, composition, and self expression.

As it was our first day in class, we discussed how the daily activity will fit with our major project and what benefits students will get out of the activities.

Major Project 

Solo project that campers will work on during the last half of camp each day, with the goal of presenting in front of an audience at our Camp Speech Conference. We'll present our major projects in class on December 6th at 430pm, and will celebrate the end of the semester with ice cream floats! Each presentation will be 7 minutes in length.

Today we discussed:

Keys to an AWESOME Presentation

1. Organization

• notes
• research
• words

2. Passion and knowledge of your subject

3. Bravery

4. A Plan

Hit or Miss - These items may help or sink your presentation!

• Jokes
• Outfits

Types of Presentations

• informative - gives your audience a lot of information about your main topic
• persuasive - persuades your audience to think/feel a certain way about your subject
• instructional - gives step by step instructions for your audeince to execute
• arousing - envokes a reaction from your audience using emotions, usually fear
• decision-making - provides information to your audience in order to make a decision

Topics - Organizing Our Presentation Subject

1. Main topic - what are you writing about?
2. Subtopic - topics that elaborate on your main topic
3. Supporting Details - details about your subtopic and main topic

Our Plan - Here is how we will create our awesome presentations

• Research
• Structure
• Organize
• Materials
• Plan and Construct

Homework

Students are to decide their main topic, subtopics, and the type of presentation. Students must be ready to discuss their selections in next week's class.

Looking Ahead

Next week we'll look at:

Practice

• Practice, practice, practice (three times, don’t memorize, speak from the heart)
• Speak in front of others
• Records yourself, listen, and critique
• Repetition - repeat again until you feel confident

Engage with Audience

• Communicate appropriately and clearly, enunciate
• Intrigue your audience
• Use visual aid if necessary
• Look at audience’s body language
• Think positive, smile, and think about your tone and body language