1. 1. Discuss Speech topic email format and procedure
MCM 29 October 2018
Tasks for the day: 
1. Discuss Speech topic format and procedure
2. Hand out over view of speech assignment (We'll discuss classwork timeline tomorrow.)
3. MCM
4. Do not forget, Terms Bootcamp Quiz is on Wednesday! I got a fantastic review from Mrs. Tisdal. Thank you for being amazing humans.
5. If you did not turn in the work over Stone, Anthony, and Truth’s speeches on Friday, put it in the basket now.

2. Tuesday 30 October 2018 Write into the Day:
Develop a thesis statement that could focus an argument in response to the following prompt. Which would be more appropriate for the topic: a pointed thesis (a list of reasons) or an umbrella thesis (vague)?
Plagiarism is rampant in public high schools and colleges. In fact, some people argue that the definition of plagiarism has changed with the proliferation of the Internet. Write an essay explaining what you believe the appropriate response of a teacher should be to a student who turns into a plagiarized essay or exam.

3. Timeline Monday 29 October: Email topic proposal
Tuesday 30 October: Learn about classic speech structure
Wednesday 31 October: Term Bootcamp Quiz and Audience handout
Thursday 1 November: Drafting and research
Friday 2 November: Drafting and research. OP-ED Due via TEAMS at midnight
Monday 5 November: MCM and discussion posts due via TEAMS at midnight
Tuesday 6 November: Election Day No School
Weds 7 November: Rough drafts due for peer review
Thurs and Fri 8-9 November: Final Revision days in class—Assign Transcendental reading for homework
Monday 12 November: Final Drafts due (hard copies)

4. OP ED= Opinion editorial
Go to a reputable news source and find an OP ED from the last month October 2018.
Copy the link to our TEAMS account (Just into the General Conversation Section) and then do the following:
1. Give a short synopsis of the piece (summary)
2. Analyze the bias and how it affects the intended audience
3. Analyze the use of one rhetorical device and how it affects the intended audience or how it contributes to the author’s purpose.
Work smarter not harder. If you can find an OP ED that works with your speech topic then use it for the TEAMS assignment and as a source for your speech.

5. Requirements and parameters for speech assignment
Get out the hand out from yesterday

6. The Classical Oration (Oration means speech): Structure
You need Paper Notes
Title your notes:
The Classical Oration (Oration means speech): Structure

7. Introduction (Exordium)
Introduces the reader to the subject under discussion.
Exordium means beginning a web in Latin
The intro, whether one paragraph or multiple, draws readers into the text by piquing their interest, challenging them, or otherwise getting their attention.
Often where the writer establishes ethos.

8. Narration (Narratio)
Provides factual info and background material on the subject at hand, thus beginning the developmental paragraphs, or establishes why the subject is a problem that needs addressing.
The level of detail used depends on the audience’s prior knowledge of the subject
Although classical rhetoric describes narration as appealing to logos, it often appeals to pathos because the writer attempts to evoke an emotional response about the importance of the issue.

9. Confirmation (Confirmatio)
Usually the major part of the text, includes development or the proof needed to make the writer’s case—the nuts and bolts of the essay
Contains the most specific and concrete detail in the test.
Makes strongest appeal to logos

10. Refutation (refutatio)
Addresses the counterargument
Bridges the writer’s proof and conclusion
Although classically placed at the end of the text as a way to anticipate objection to the proof given in the confirmation section, it’s not a hard and fast rule.
If opposing views are well known or valued by the audience, a writer will address them before presenting confirmation section.
Appeals largely to logos

11. Conclusion (peroratio)
Whether one paragraph or several, brings the essay to a close
Appeals to pathos and reminds the reader of the established ethos
Rather than simply repeating what has gone before, the conclusion brings all the writer’s ideas together and answers the question, SO WHAT?
The last words and ideas of a text are those the audience is most likely to remember.

12. Pg
Sandra Day O’Connor and Roy Romer’s “Not by Math Alone”

13. John Greene’s “Open Letter to Students Returning to School”

14. Homework Study for your Term Bootcamp Quiz which is TOMORROW.
Check your to see if I’ve responded with a confirmation on your topic, instructions to tweak your topic, or a request for a new topic. I hope to finish them by this evening at 9pm.