• 1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies

  Deliver focused, coherent presentations that convey ideas clearly and relate to the background and interests of the audience. Students evaluate the content of oral communication. 

  Comprehension 

  1.1 Ask probing questions to elicit information, including evidence to support the speaker’s claims and conclusions. 

  1.2 Determine the speaker’s attitude toward the subject. 

  1.3 Respond to persuasive messages with questions, challenges, or affirmations. 

  Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication 

  1.4 Organize information to achieve particular purposes and to appeal to the background and interests of the audience. 

  1.5 Arrange supporting details, reasons, descriptions, and examples effectively and persua-sively in relation to the audience. 

  1.6 Use speaking techniques, including voice modulation, inflection, tempo, enunciation, and eye contact, for effective presentations. 

  Analysis and Evaluation of Oral and Media Communications 

  1.7 Provide constructive feedback to speakers concerning the coherence and logic of a speech’s content and delivery and its overall impact upon the listener. 

  1.8 Analyze the effect on the viewer of images, text, and sound in electronic journalism; identify the techniques used to achieve the effects in each instance studied. 

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• 2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)

  Students deliver well-organized formal presentations employing traditional rhetorical strategies (e.g., narration, exposition, persuasion, description). Student speaking demon-strates a command of standard American English and the organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0. 

  Using the speaking strategies of grade seven outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0, students: 

  2.1 Deliver narrative presentations: 

  1. Establish a context, standard plot line (having a beginning, conflict, rising action, climax, and denouement), and point of view. 
  2. Describe complex major and minor characters and a definite setting. 
  3. Use a range of appropriate strategies, including dialogue, suspense, and naming of specific narrative action (e.g., movement, gestures, expressions). 

  2.2 Deliver oral summaries of articles and books: 

  1. Include the main ideas of the event or article and the most significant details. 
  2. Use the student’s own words, except for material quoted from sources. 
  3. Convey a comprehensive understanding of sources, not just superficial details. 

  2.3 Deliver research presentations: 

  1. Pose relevant and concise questions about the topic. 
  2. Convey clear and accurate perspectives on the subject. 
  3. Include evidence generated through the formal research process (e.g., use of a card catalog,Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature, computer databases, magazines, news-papers, dictionaries). 
  4. Cite reference sources appropriately. 

  2.4 Deliver persuasive presentations: 

  1. State a clear position or perspective in support of an argument or proposal. 
  2. Describe the points in support of the argument and employ well-articulated evidence. 

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