1. The Public Speaking Final
The Oral Presentation
The Public Speaking Final

2. Assignment: Interpretive Oral Presentation
Video and post through You Tube a 3-8 minute interpretive oral presentation
Due date 12/5
Points 500
Poem/literature Approval (50)—11/20 (Tuesday)
Paragraph explaining significance of the literary piece
Poem highlighted for voice/body emphasis (50)—11/24 (Saturday)
Introduction (100) 11/26 (Monday)
Speech (300)—12/5

3. Oral Interpretation
Performing of literature aloud to communicate meaning to an audience
Requires analyzation of mood, meaning, and intent of the piece
Requires connection to the literature and the audience
Requires communication of mood, meaning, and intent though the voice and gestures, both facial and bodily.

4. Literature Choices Poems Stories Fables Essays Plays Children’s books
Oral stories
See page 477 for appropriate literature options
SONGS CURRENT AND PAST ARE NOT A CHOICE

5. Checklist for Selecting Material for Oral Interpretation
Does it connect with the common human experience?
Is it appropriate to the audience and the occasion?
Will listeners be able to grasp the meaning in one reading?
Do you feel personally connected to the material?

6. Characteristics of Oral Interpretation
Memorize and perform the author’s piece
You create a mood or tone that is interpretive of the piece
Help audience “see” the message as you interpret it
Gestures
Facial features
Pauses
Body movements

7. Cutting it down from a Longer Piece
If the piece is part of a larger piece of literature such as a novel or a play:
You need to first read the entire piece of literature.
Understand the larger piece to understand hou wyour section/cutting fits into the whole
See Chapter 17 of the textbook for ”Cutting the Text”

8. Understanding the Elements of the Literary Piece
Setting—this will create your tone
Plot—Sometimes, if you cut parts out, you will need to tell your audience the plot in the introduction
Mood—the emotional feeling of the piece through non-verbal messages.
Theme—the main idea of the piece helps you emphasize important parts that point to the theme in your piece
Conflict—what is the problem
Character—how do these characters act?

9. Word Emphasis
Connotative meaning is the emotional or personal response a word evokes by emphasis
Similar to reading a children’s book to a child to emphasize with the tone and inflection of your voice the important words that connect to the meaning.

10. Reading Rhythm and Rhyme
You must not read in a singsong voice or rhythm
Listeners will tune you out
Boring/sleepy
Break the rhythm so audience will pay more attention.

11. How to Basics.
Re-read or reference pages of the text.

12. Format: Dress appropriate
Nice backdrop for performance, preferably black or white sheet
No Props
Podium or desk to place your text
Large Print out of your text for REFERENCE ONLY
Introduction of your piece
Performance
Ending Thanking the Audience.

13. Review You Tube Videos on Weebly

14. Rubric
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