1. Why Study Communications
Speech I
Fontainebleau High School

2. Teamwork skills
**In your notes list the jobs you will not use communications/speaking.
Turn to a partner and see what jobs they were able to list
**List how you will use communications/public speaking in the career field you want to enter.

3. Why Study Communications?
Advance professional goals
Top Personal Qualities/Skills Rated by Employers
Written and verbal communication skills
Honesty/Integrity
Interpersonal Skills
Motivation/Initiative
Strong work ethic

4. Accomplish personal goals
Confidence
Enhance you academically
Write
Research
Analyze
Prove/Support
Charts/Graphs

5. Explore and share values
Sharing your passion with others
List at least 5 things you are passionate about.
Hone critical thinking and listening skills
Help you reason and think critically
Logical flow of ideas

6. Become an engaged citizen
Public Conversation:
Watch News
Read News

7. Public Speaking WORDS ARE POWERFUL
TICKET OUT THE DOOR: (on an index card)
Write down three thoughts on the student speech you just heard.
How important does he feel words and voices are…

8. History of Public Speaking:
Oratory, Greece in the Fifth Century B.C.;
persuasive nature
People were their own “attorneys”
Used to settle civil disputes, determine public policy and establish laws.
Athens was the first recorded direct democracy; governed by 40,000 free property holding males (no one else held the rights of citizens) Citizens were active participants.
Demonstrated involvement in agora (public square or marketplace where people discussed democratic issues)

9. Classical Terms Forensic oratory: legal speech
Deliberative: speech given in political contexts
Epideictic: speech delivered in special ceremonies
Canons of Rhetoric: parts of the speech when it was divided
Canons of Rhetoric:
Invention: adapting information to your audience
Arrangement: organization of the speech
Style: the ways the speaker uses language to express ideas
Memory: practice of speech until artfully delivered
Delivery: vocal and non-verbal behavior when speaking.

10. What is communications?
Process of sharing information by using symbols to send and receive messages.

11. Shared Meaning: mutual understanding of message
The sender:
Encoding: deciding what to say and how to say it
The receiver:
Decoding: interpreting the message
Feedback
Audience perspective: audience of one or one hundred
The message:
Miscommunication happens when the message is misinterpreted.
The channel:
The medium in which the message is sent (air, telephone, computer, etc…)
Noise: interference
Shared Meaning: mutual understanding of message
Outcome: Have you accomplished what you set out to do?

12. Receiver Audience Source
Message
Receiver Audience Source
Feedback
Source
Speaker
Receiver
Channel
Channel
Goals
Outcome
Channel
Channel

13. Observation Activity -
Bring your notebook/binder and something to write with.
We will do some communication observations.
For each communication you observe write down the following:
Who am I observing? Who was the initial sender and who was the receiver?
What kind of conversation am I observing?
Was there interference during the conversation? How did they react to the interference?
Explain their body language.
Did they have a mutual understanding in the conversation? Explain
Did the initial sender accomplish what he/she set out to accomplish? Explain
We will discuss the results in class.

14. Observation Results:
Discuss the questions that were asked concerning the communication circle that you observed.

15. Learning to Speak in Public
Draw on familiar skills
Learning any new skill involves mastering a set of techniques and then practicing them
Conversation and Public Speaking – mimic each other depending on circumstance
Speaking and Writing – in both speaking and writing you must have a focused sense on who the audience is.

16. Recognize public speaking’s unique requirements
Successful speakers use:
Familiar words
Easy to follow sentences
Straight forward syntax – subject to verb agreement
Transitional words and phrases
May repeat words or phrases to emphasize ideas
More organized then informal conversation

17. Become a Culturally sensitive speaker
Create a sense of inclusion the speaker must attempt to understand the audience’s beliefs and norms
Culture - the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next
Ethnocentrism – (flip side of cultural sensitivity) – the belief that the ways of our own culture are superior to those of other cultures.

18. Cultural Sensitivity ActivityM
Complete Diversity Activity with entire class.

19. Quizzlet Review
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