Persuasive Speech
Your persuasive speech topic needs to be something about which you feel very strongly. Have a passion to truly persuade someone to be convinced to your way of thinking.
Live a "green" life
Santa is real
Energy drinks are dangerous
Don't implement school uniforms
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Click below for some good ideas...
http://persuasivespeechideas.org/100-good-persuasive-speech-topics/
http://www.myspeechclass.com/persuasivetopics2.html
http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/writing/persuasive-essay-topics/
The basic purpose of a persuasive speech is to argue your idea until you get someone to come around to your way of thinking. The goal of this “argument” is to win acceptance of your ideas when others, for whatever reason, do not agree with you. The point of a persuasive speech is not to show how mad you are. Writing a persuasive speech helps you to look at evidence, state ideas more clearly, consider the claims of the opposition fairly, and justify your own position.
The range for topics is wide open. You may choose something as fun as pro-extracurricular activities or something as serious as against abortion. It can be something close to home like having open campus or it can be worldly like ending world hunger. Your topic needs to be appropriate. No two people in a section can have the same stance on the same topic.
Your persuasive speech topic needs to be something about which you feel very strongly. Have a passion to truly persuade someone to be convinced to your way of thinking.
Live a "green" life
Santa is real
Energy drinks are dangerous
Don't implement school uniforms
Sign up for SPEECH extracurricular
Click below for some good ideas...
http://persuasivespeechideas.org/100-good-persuasive-speech-topics/
http://www.myspeechclass.com/persuasivetopics2.html
http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/writing/persuasive-essay-topics/
The basic purpose of a persuasive speech is to argue your idea until you get someone to come around to your way of thinking. The goal of this “argument” is to win acceptance of your ideas when others, for whatever reason, do not agree with you. The point of a persuasive speech is not to show how mad you are. Writing a persuasive speech helps you to look at evidence, state ideas more clearly, consider the claims of the opposition fairly, and justify your own position.
The range for topics is wide open. You may choose something as fun as pro-extracurricular activities or something as serious as against abortion. It can be something close to home like having open campus or it can be worldly like ending world hunger. Your topic needs to be appropriate. No two people in a section can have the same stance on the same topic.
Requirements
- Persuasive speeches will be a minimum of four (4) minutes. You will miss points if you are shorter than four minutes
- keep track of sources as you research your topic - the only way to truly prove your point is to constantly mention your sources within your speech
- fill in and email the opposition chart on Friday, April 1st
- type and email an introduction including a thesis statement on Monday, April 4
- email both of us at [email protected] and [email protected]
- type or write an outline including introduction, body, and conclusion to turn in on the day of your speech
- use a minimum of 2 reliable sources - stay away from Wikipedia
- create a Works Cited page - easybib.com is great!
- visual aid is not a requirement but is still a possibility if you need it
- At the podium, you will only be allowed two (2) note cards.
- TURN IN/EMAIL - outline, works cited, notecard (if needed) on the day of your speech
- Speeches begin on Wednesday, April 6!
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Persuasive Speech Grading Practice
To prepare for this, you and a partner (if you so choose; no groups of three) are going to consider what makes a “good” persuasive speech.
To prepare for this, you and a partner (if you so choose; no groups of three) are going to consider what makes a “good” persuasive speech.
- Open the document called “rubric_practice” at the very bottom of this page
- Skim through it together – get familiar with it
- This is VERY similar to what I’ll use to grade you in a couple weeks
- Find a quiet-ish corner of the room
- Find a fairly good persuasive speech on youtube. It shouldn’t be the first one you find when googling “good persuasive speech.” Listen to a little bit of a few speeches and see which one seems most interesting.
- Watch/listen to the speech a couple times through
- Grade the youtube speech as we would grade your speeches
- Comment on each criteria
- Decide where the speech would fall on the ratings of
- Effectively accomplished
- Partially accomplished
- Not accomplished
- Highlight, underline, use a different color font – just make sure we can easily see your comments
- Give the speech a final grade out of 40 points
- When finished grading, do a “file, save as” and title it with your names
- Email as an attachment to [email protected] AND [email protected]
- In the body of the email, please include the link to the speech so we can watch that too
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