The second on-campus session is Wednesday, March 3, in 201C at 6:30 p.m.

Homework Assignments:

1. Revisit all class notes.

2. Complete Test #1 Crossword Puzzle #1 in the textbook on page 132. The clues are on pages 134-135. You should be able to do the puzzle without looking at your notes. This is a good way to see where your strengths and weaknesses lie prior to Test #1. Click here for the answers.

3. Practice delivering your Persuasive Speech several times for a live audience.

4. The Read About Audience Analysis link in the Links to Additional Materials explains how your audience affects your speech topic and content. We won’t be concerned about audience analysis for our Persuasive Speeches. We will be analyzing our class as an audience to help us prepare for our Informative Speeches, though.

Graded Homework Assignments:
The following graded homework assignments must be submitted via email. The email address is srginley@yahoo.com. Submit only the number of the question and your answer in the body of your email message. ATTACHMENTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Due Sunday, February 29, 6:30 p.m.

1. Visit the Week #5 Discussion Forum and read your classmates’ first speech worries. Write a one paragraph response to at least two of your classmates’ postings. Offer suggestions and/or share your observations about your classmates’ concerns.

2. Email the instructor your answers to the SPE 101 NR Audience Survey. Use the Audience Analysis Form link in the Putting Theory Into Practice section to view the survey. We’ll use this information to analyze our class as an audience, choose Informative Speech topics and plan Informative Speech audience strategies.

Due Wednesday, March 3, 6:30 p.m.

Present your Persuasive Speech in 201C. We’ll begin presenting speeches at 6:30 p.m. and continue until we’ve heard them all. Please do your very best to come on time.

Links to Additional Materials:

There is no such thing as a generic speech because the audience for each speech presentation is different. Read About Audience Analysis discusses eleven factors to consider about your speech audience affecting the way in which you choose your topic and write your speech.

Journey to the University of Hawaii Maui Speech Department to read Ron St. John's do's and don'ts about practicing your speech.

The National Speaker’s Association is a speaker’s bureau. They are agents who arrange speaking engagements for professional public speakers. Their link How to Take the Anxiety Out of Public Speaking: Professional Speakers Offer Tricks of the Trade offers some speech practice and performance advice.

The Leader’s Institute is a commercial organization offering courses and books in business-related topics. I’m not familiar with their courses. However, Doug Staneart has an excerpt from the first chapter of his book Fearless Presentations offering some good advice for preparing for a speech at the following link. Scroll about 2/3 of the way down the page until you see the heading “Universal Fear” to get to his speaking advice.

Putting Theory Into Practice:

Audience Analysis Form

Study Break:

Demosthenes was perhaps the most famous public speaker in ancient Greece. Although Demosthenes was not a “born” public speaker. He achieved great public speaking success through hard work. You can read about his life and some of his practice techniques on this link. Be careful if you put those pebbles in your mouth, though.