AFTER-DINNER SPEECH

Key Points?Choose a specific audience which requires clear adaptations.

Inspire and entertain that audience with a 2-6 minute speech.

Audience Analysis Sheet due January 13 beginning of class.

AUDIENCE/INSPIRE/ENTERTAIN

Who will you speak to?Retired librarians?HS sports parents?2nd graders?Pheasant hunters?A room full of Speech teachers?Dungeons & Dragons™ basement dwellers?

Audience can not be 9-12th graders. In fact, it will be better if the audience is as different as possible.

AUDIENCE/INSPIRE/ENTERTAIN

Adapting for your audiencePro soccer players? Try these:

Stories about great individual players, games, World Cups

Facts about great individual players, games, World Cups

Rules of the gameLanguage specific to the sport (50/50, Wall Pass, Pitch)

Jokes about the sportClothing appropriate for this audience

AUDIENCE/INSPIRE/ENTERTAIN Adapting for your audience

English teachers? Try these: Anecdotes from your experience Quotes from great authors/literature Puns Literary journal citations Clothing appropriate for this audience

AUDIENCE/INSPIRE/ENTERTAINYour turn

On your own:

Brainstorm 3 varied audiences

For each potential audience, list four ways to adapt specifically to that audience.

With a friend:

Share your lists

Choose one

Share with the class

AUDIENCE/INSPIRE/ENTERTAIN

How might you adapt your speech if. . . You are speaking to a room full of librarians? You are speaking to a room full of 5th grade boys? You are speaking to the JM Principals? You are speaking to your best friend while hanging out?

Choose a specific audience which requires clear

adaptations.(Worksheet due Monday,

January 13.)

AUDIENCE/INSPIRE/ENTERTAIN

Take five minutes to begin brainstorming ideas on your handout.

AUDIENCE/INSPIRE/ENTERTAIN

You must move your audience to act or feel a specific way

Consider your persuasive appeals (Ethos/Logos/Pathos)

For example Librarians – promote reading so more books are checked out 5th Grade boys – take care of their personal hygiene JM Principals – have seniors graduate a week earlier

Looking back at the audience you and a friend chose earlier, brainstorm two possible ways to inspire them. Be ready to share.

AUDIENCE/INSPIRE/

ENTERTAINThis needs to be a light-hearted speech

• Jokes (the interwebs is your friend)

• Amusing stories (the interwebs is your friend)

• Humor techniques (PP and worksheet)

• Top Ten list

AFTER-DINNER SPEECH

Key Points?Choose a specific audience which requires clear adaptations.

Inspire and entertain that audience with a 2-6 minute speech.

Audience Analysis Sheet due Monday, January 13, beginning of class.

Inspiring?Entertaining?Adapted for the audience?

Wedding Toast

SAMPLE AFTER-DINNER

mple After-Dinner

George Alexander Charalambous: Winner After Dinner Speaking - at World Youth Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championship 2010.

The Vampire Speech!!

YOUR TURN – SPEECH FINAL : PART I

• Create a 2-6 minute speech to present for your final speech and speech final. 60 points

• Word process an outline following correct outline procedures. (The informative speech outline handout will be helpful here.) 30 points

• Word process a Works Cited page documenting your source/s. (If you are the only source, you may document this on your outline - use the format we used with the demonstration speech. If you have more than one source, create a Works Cited page using the MLA format.) Included in outline 30 points.

• Prepare and practice using note cards. 10 points.