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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Outlining

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website focuses on students the importance of having of outlining; it offers links to the discussion of four outlining concepts: Reasons for outlining, the Preparation outline, the Speaking outline, and the Rough Draft outline.
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Handout
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Outlining

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on outlining your speech including the reasons for outlining, the kinds of outlines including their purpose what goes into each.
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Primary
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Romanticism: "The American Scholar" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
"The American Scholar" is a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson on August 31, 1837, to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was invited to speak in recognition of his groundbreaking work "Nature" in which he...
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Handout
McMaster University

Mc Master University: Making Class Presentations [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Comprehensive guide with 17 areas of suggestions and tips for delivering a successful class presentation. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4, SL.11-12.4 Presentation
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Oral Presentation Rubric [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
This reproducible resource provides an assessment rubric to be used with students' oral presentations. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4
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Website
Other

Cpsr: Cyber Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
CPSR offers an informative discussion of current legal and policy topics hosted by group working for rights of assembly and speech for online communities.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Effective Interview Questions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Explore effective interview questions. By choosing questions that are open-ended and important to them, students can learn great interview skills that can be helpful in future college and job interviews.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: m.l. King, Jr.: Identifying With a Hero

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson that attempts to help younger learners understand and identify with Martin Luther King, Jr. through reading, writing, listening, and speaking activities. Encourages students to attempt to live out King's "Dream," in their own lives.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs News Hour: Vanishing Verbs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Ever noticed how tv news reporting sounds so different from conversation and from academic writing? Explore this topic with your students using the resources and plans at this site. Handouts, discussion questions and vocabulary practice...
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Adapting to Your Audience

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Anxiety

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on types of anxiety and how to overcome situational anxiety more commonly known as stage fright.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Show and Teach

For Teachers 2nd Standards
This lesson engages students in classmates sharing their talents. Students will communicate information about their talent and then teach their classmates.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Future Possible Selves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students create future-self plans. When presented with the idea of future possible selves, students have the opportunity to identify who they want to be.