Homework Assignments:

1. Revisit all class notes.

2. Read and highlight the textbook Chapter 6 “Writing Speech Introductions and Conclusions that Work for You” on pages 86-97.

3. Complete the Identify the Introduction Exercise on pages 98-99.

4. Take You Ought to Know by Now sample review quiz #6.

5. Look over the Test #1 Study Guide.

6. Do Test #1 Crossword Puzzle #2 on page 133. The clues are on pages 136-137. After you read Chapter 6 you should be able to do the entire crossword puzzle without looking back at your notes.

7. Look over YOTKBN Midterm Review Question #200 and the Second Outlining Exercise on page 46. Take-Home Test #1 Question #1 follows the same format as the Second Outlining Exercise and question #200. The solution to question #200 is on the following page of the YOTKBN Review Questions. The Second Outlining Exercise solution may be found under this week’s Putting Theory into Practice.

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, March 14, 6:30 p.m.

1. As a Speech group, enter two Stump the Classroom questions in this term’s Stump the Classroom competition. You may meet with your group in your group’s chat room or private discussion forum to suggest possible questions. There are only two STC question rules. First, the question may only have one answer. Second, the question must be deemed by the instructor to be a legitimate test question in one of the class areas we’ve discussed so far excluding “T” note-taking. Acceptable question areas would include general purposes, topics, specific purposes, thesis statements, main points, organizational patterns, outlining, evidence and introductions and conclusions.

2. Respond to your groups’ Informative Topic postings and agree on a broad topic area for your groups’ Informative Speech presentations. Then, suggest possible narrowed individual Informative Speech topics.

Due Wednesday, March 17, 6:30 p.m.

1. Take Quiz #6.

2. Post your individual Informative Speech topic in your group’s Informative Topic Discussion Forum. I’ll approve your topic or offer suggestions for further topic narrowing.

Due Wednesday, April 7, 6:30 p.m.:

Do Review Questions #169-199 on pages 171-173. Do not email me your answers. I’ll check all Midterm Review Question answers during the Wednesday, April 7, class session. You may check your answers in the You Ought to Know by Now review section.

Links to Additional Materials:

The Great Openings page of Stephen Morgan’s The Art and Psychology of Presentation Skills website offers attention-getting advice. The left-hand column explains the importance of making a first impression. The right-hand column discusses various introductory devices. The left-hand column is more important for us. According to his website, Stephen Morgan is a public speaker who has made over 2,000 speeches in fourteen countries. He has presented speeches in English, French and German.

Visit the Sample student speech introductions link and see how previous Speech students have used the introduction devices in their speeches.

The Kicking rear end with your conclusion link shows examples of famous speech conclusions delivered by Patrick Henry, Winston Churchill, Gen. George Patton, Jr., Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Study Guide for Test #1 describes the material that will be covered on Test #1 in detail. Read the guide carefully. It will help you study the right things.

Putting Theory Into Practice

Look at the Identify the Introduction exercise (solution) link to see if you correctly identified the introduction devices in the Identify the Introduction exercise.

Check your outlining skills with the Second Outlining Exercise Subsections a & b (solutions).

Study Break:

Take the Spoonerisms Quiz and see if you can figure out what the Reverend William A. Spooner was trying to say.