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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Learning How to Speak Publicly
This site provides a variety of ways for people learn how to speak publicly and the best practices in preparing and presenting speeches. SL.9-10.4 Presentation
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Speeches for Special Occasions
This lesson plan focuses on speeches for special occasions including, introduction speeches, goodwill speeches, inspirational speeches, acceptance and presentation speeches, dedications and eulogies, and farewells, toasts, and...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Establishing a Purpose and a Thesis
This lesson focuses on establishing the purpose and thesis of your speech. It includes information about both a general and specific purpose of the speech and developing a thesis statement that clearly articulates the purpose and main...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: The Importance of Audience Analysis
This lesson focuses on analyzing your audience including the benefits of understanding your audience, what to look for, how to identify with your audience, and tips for the speaker.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Demographic Factors to Consider
This lesson plan focuses on demographic factors to consider when analyzing your audience including age, generations, gender, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, and race, education, religion, and group member.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Contextual Factors to Consider
This lesson focuses on contextual factors to consider when analyzing your audience including physical contexts, values, beliefs, attitudes, and needs, audience opinion of you and your topic, and audience knowledge of your topic.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Adapting to Your Audience
This lesson focuses on adapting your speech to your audience including analyzing your audience using direct observation, interviews, surveys, or Likert rating scales and then apply knowledge about the audience to adjust the message...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Significance of Ethics in Public Speaking
This lesson focuses on the importance of ethics in public speaking including being honest, free from plagiarized content, no falsehoods or conflict of interest, and free from abusive language. It also discusses the qualities of an active...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Plagiarism
This lesson focuses on plagiarism including the different forms of plagiarism, avoiding plagiarism when using the Internet, don't copy and paste, and the likelihood of being caught.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Components of a Speech
This lesson focuses on the components of a speech and what is included in each section. It includes the introduction, body, conclusion, and transitions.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Steps of Preparing a Speech
This lesson plan focuses on the steps for preparing a speech including choose a topic, analyze the audience, gather materials and evidence, develop a thesis, support ideas, organize and outline the speech, draft the speech, prepare to...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Listening
This lesson focuses on understanding listening including defining active listening, the five stages of the listening process, listening and critical thinking, and the four main barriers to effective listening.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Barriers to Listening
This lesson focuses on barriers to listening including cultural differences, gender, and technological distractions.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Enhancing Your Listening
This lesson focuses on ways to improve your listening skills including resisting distractions and listening actively, suspending judgment, and exercising empathy. It also provides tips for being a more open-minded listener.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Helping Your Audience Listen More
This lesson focuses on helping your audience listen better by offering strategies such as read feedback cues, employ strategies for maintaining audience focus, use strategies to maximize audience understanding, build credibility, and...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Finding and Selecting a Topic
This instructional activity focuses on selecting a speech topic including the importance of choosing a good topic by considering your areas of expertise and areas of interest, brainstorming, tips for choosing a topic, and narrowing the...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Gathering Evidence: An Overview
This lesson plan focuses on the importance of gathering information that provides evidence for your topic that is credible, current, and relevant. It also discusses how to find and evaluate sources. SL.9-10.1a Prepared/Discuss
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Effective Informative Speaking
This lesson focuses on how to present an effective informative speech including keeping in mind the goals, scope, audience, and connections to the speech.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Introduction to Persuasive Speaking
This lesson focuses on persuasive speaking including identifying the qualities, components, goals, and ethics of persuasive speaking.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Types of Persuasive Speeches
This instructional activity focuses on three basic types of persuasive speeches: fact, value, and policy and information about each. It also provides questions you should ask yourself when analyzing a speech.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Sample Persuasive Speech
This lesson asks students to identify the strengths of Eisenhower's persuasive speech about military spending. A link to the audio version of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's speech "Chance for Peace" on April 16, 1953.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Getting the Most Out of a Persuasive Speech
This lesson focuses on presenting a good persuasive speech. It discusses the selective exposure theory, kinds of appeals, and expectations.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Credibility Appeals
This lesson focuses on using credible appeals in persuasive speeches including defining subjective and objective credibility, the types and elements of credibility, and the ethical use of credibility appeals. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Evidentiary Appeals
This lesson plan focuses on the use of evidentiary appeals in persuasive speeches including definition, evaluating your evidence, and strategies for using evidence effectively. Click on next at the bottom right to continue.