We will go through course expectations and briefly introduce ourselves. For those in class, we will do some exercises in "immediacy," being careful to keep social distance.

We will explore the communication process in an interactive way. Class members will give speeches introducing each other. Personal experience speeches are assigned for next week.

We will share and respond to personal experience speeches.

We will explore organizational patterns that work for giving informative speeches. Impromptu speeches will be made in small groups to illustrate these.

We will explore techniques for making introductions and conclusions. The first test will be given in class.

We will present informative speeches to each other, teaching each other about something that we didn't already know.

We will prepare for demonstration speeches in class, examining how to use presentational aids.

We will present demonstration speeches in class, teaching how to do or make something; or showing how something works using visual aids

We will explore persuasion, examining how it works and looking closely at the Monroe Motivated sequence organization pattern for persuasive speeches.

We will role play positive and negative roles one can hold in group discussions. We will look at examples of persuasive speeches

We will continue to examine persuasion, looking at types of reasoning used in argument as well as logical fallacies.

Consultations for Persuasive speeches. Tedtalk assignment explained and modeled. Second Test is taken.

Persuasive Speeches are presented and critiqued in class. Students prepare to analyze Ted talks the following week.

We will share Ted talks that we have found and liked and explain to each other what makes them so effective.