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COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Library Resources </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Course Information</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR></SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">General Course Description:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Students will learn about the fundamentals of human communication and public speaking. They will learn what makes an individual a better speaker and a better listener. As speakers, students will learn about, and use, tools that increase their effectiveness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As writers, students will build skills in preparing speeches.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They will learn the proper use of different types of support materials, research methods /strategies, speech organization, and argumentation in public speaking.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Finally, students will learn to prepare and deliver specific types of speeches.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Students will complete lessons with attention to grammar, spelling, writing, and vocabulary. All students will work to improve vocabulary, fluency, and reading comprehension skills through the use of exercises, speeches, presentations, debates, and tests.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Topics to be Covered:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Speech and Debate focuses on the elements of human communication, methods and tools for increasing effectiveness, speech preparation, speech delivery, types of speeches, and debate methods. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Course Objectives</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR></SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Learning Goals:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Students will learn the fundamentals of public speaking and debate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Through their readings and activities, students will increase their ability to speak effectively for a variety of purposes. Students will learn the art of persuasion and apply their knowledge in their own speeches, essays, and debates.</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR><B>Knowledge / Skills Students will Gain:</B> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Listening, Speaking, Critical Reading, Writing Purpose, Argumentation, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Analysis, Research, and Delivery<BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR>Instructional Philosophy</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR><B>Expectations for Student Performance:</B> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Participation is a must. Students need to bring materials to class, and not leave to go to lockers. All assignments must be completed on time. Missed work due to excused absence is to be made up within two days. Debates cannot be made up; extenuating circumstances such as school closure or hospitalization of student are the exception. Debate dates are planned with teams, so students must schedule accordingly.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR><B>Emphasis:</B> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Presentations, Assignments, Tests and Quizzes<BR></SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Collaboration:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Individual Work, Group Work</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Course Policies </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR></SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Attendance:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">This course is greatly dependent on participation. There is very little room for absence.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR></SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Late Assignments: </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">10 point deduction per day</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR><B>Make-up work due to absence:</B> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Two days from the date of an excused absence. Five points per day will be deducted for assignments turned in later. Incompletes are assigned at the discretion of the teacher.<BR></SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Homework: </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Unfinished class work, projects, reading, assigned tv shows, studying</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR><B>Academic Dishonesty: </B></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Zero point value assignment </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Tutoring and Other Academic Assistance<BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I am available by appointment during my prep period (7th), or after school.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Teaching and Learning Strategies<BR></SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Format of Class:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">After an introduction to each unit, the teacher becomes a facilitator. Students work individually and collaboratively on assignments. Blackboard, other internet and media, and hands-on experience are all integral parts of the class experience.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR><B>Required Activities: </B></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Participation in class, completion of assignments and activities, use of computer and internet, video publication, presentation of speeches to the class and other audiences</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Predominant Strategies Employed:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jigsaw, SQ3R, RAP, Q-STep, Outlining, KWL, Concept Mapping, Modified Cornell 2-Column Notes, Interactive Electronic Activities.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Course Outline <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face=Calibri><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Unit 1:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Human Communication / Analysis/ Vocabulary / Confidence / Podcast</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT face=Calibri>Unit 2:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Voice/ Nonverbal Delivery /Language/ Audience & Situation Analysis/ Topic /Delivery /Evaluation/ Vocabulary <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT face=Calibri>Unit 3: Support Materials / Research / Organization / Argumentation / Discussion Thread / Blog<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; 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