Tribute Speech Orders

Monday

Order	Name
1	Neda
2	Lauren
3	Daniel
4	Marissa
5	Shannon
6	Mary G
7	Elia
8	Courtney
9	Norah
10	Anna

Wednesday

Order	Name
1	Mohammed
2	Sean
3	Caitlin
4	Maren
5	Luke
6	Max
7	Cerena
8	Sarah
9	Amy
10	Amanda

Code of Conduct

Giving

• Do's
• Compliment Sandwich
• Be authentic (esp. re: compliment sandwich)
• Be direct
• Offer suggestions for improvement
• Balance your feedback - don't be all negative
• Include your subjective experience with your feedback
• Check your language, be self-reflexive 
• Give feedback keeping in mind previous speech from that person
• Respect others' ideas, beliefs, perspectives, etc.
• Critique the work, not the person
• Organize your feedback
• Be aware of "filling quotas"
• Include the "why"
• Don'ts
• Don't sugar coat
• Don't summarize the content of the speech - unless you're trying to clarify
• Don't make assumptions about intentions - ask questions
• Don't hold back
• Don't be aggressive
• Don't compare people

Receiving

• Do's
• Understand that feedback is subjective
• Be open-minded
• Ask for clarification
• Check your ego/emotions
• Separate feedback from personal attack
• Don't take it personally
• Don'ts
• Don't be biased, try to understand where feedback is coming from
• Don't read into critiques

April 8th Blog Post

1. Tribute for my mom
2. Tribute for my cousin and his fiance
3. Tribute for myself?

In my speech I would like to use intentional pauses like Obama did in order to break up my speech and make t easier to follow for my audiences.

Sarah Tornatzky

Post 3 ideas for the Tribute speech that you have and one thing from Obama's speech that you'd like to apply.

1. Tribute to my Mom
2. Tribute to Bill Daniels, the founder of the Daniels Fund Scholarship Program
3. Eulogy for myself?

I think the intentional pauses that Obama uses are very powerful and would be a great tool for adding emphasis to portions of my tribute.

4.9.14

Motivational Appeals

• The difference between emotionally motivating and manipulating:
• Motivating
• When the emotion is sincerely shared between the speaker and the audience
• When there is a balance between emotional and logical appeal
• When moral issues are taken up that are centrally relevant to the argument of the speech
• Manipulating
• When the speaker “tacks on” an emotional veil to hook his/her audience
• When the audience can perceive that a speaker is playing on it’s emotions
• When a moral issue is illustrated as a means of “tokenism” - a superficial gesture meant only to gain the allegiance of certain groups and identities.

Crafting Your Speech

• Modes of Delivery

• Extemporaneous - use of outline
• Impromptu - draft first and last sentences
• Manuscript/Scripted Speeches - less room for error
• Memorized - most prep, but least amount of stress during the speech
• You can blend these styles - for example if one particular sentence only works if worded in a very specific way, you can script the one sentence and include it in the outline.
• Written versus oral - this is why it is important to practice. Written style sometimes doesn’t feel right when spoken aloud.
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Intro to Speech Ethics

• Listening and Ethics
• No decision a speaker makes is politically or morally neutral. When you speak, you are by default editing by choosing what to say and what not to say; you are therefore issuing value and importance to various topics.
• Be aware of your own personal/cultural/political biases. We all have frameworks that we use to make sense of the world.

Linda Alcoff’s “The Problem of Speaking for Others.”

• Determine your intentions: are your intentions to teach, or to learn?
• Determine your vantage point: where does your cultural perspective differ from the perspective you are performing?
• Be open to criticism
• Predict what, if any, outcomes may be harmful, or perceived as harmful by members of the cultural perspective you are presenting

Code of Conduct for Peer Critiques: Together, we will create a living document that can be added or amended throughout the quarter. It should act as a blueprint for the best practices in BOTH giving AND receiving feedback.

Group Exercise: 3-4 people in each group

• As a group, choose a person to tribute or eulogize. They can be alive, departed, real or fictional.
• Craft a SHORT (3 min) speech that uses the following language devices listed on 173-174:
• One use of simile
• One use of metaphor
• One use of personification
• One use of hyperbole
• One use of repetition
• One use of a rhetorical question (a question that you answer yourself, or whose answer is self-evident)
• Check to be sure your speech is devoid of cliches

Will The Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up (feat. Eminem) - A Great Example of What We Talked About In Class!

Hi everyone! I think that this video is a fantastic example of how easily speeches can be taken out of context and do not have a limited audience in today's digital age. This video is meant to be humorous, but it's nonetheless a great example of what we talked about today. Enjoy!

Tribute Speech - 4.14 & 4.16

TIME:  5 Minutes

ASSIGNMENT:

Please prepare a tribute speech for someone that you admire or care about, or someone you don't know but find interesting nonetheless. The context for this speech is one of the following (of your choosing): an awards ceremony, a wedding/birthday, or a funeral. You may also choose to deliver a eulogy for yourself.

DIRECTIONS:

Each student is to prepare a 5-minute tribute that recognizes the virtues, accomplishments and personality of the individual in question. The main objective here is to get comfortable organizing and preparing ideas. You must organize your speech in a way that is meaningful and flows in a logical way. For instance, it would be helpful to frame your speech around a uniting theme or metaphor.

The two main purposes of this speech are: to evoke emotion and to invite your audience to reflect on the life/accomplishments of the person about whom you are speaking. Think about the various techniques we've observed in the TED talks we've watched as a class that make emotional appeals (storytelling, being vulnerable, using visuals, etc.)


GUIDELINES:

Pay close attention to the following when preparing your speech:

Introduction:  attention-gaining material, thesis statement, preview.
Thesis Statement:  Clear, specific, and directly related to your main points, perhaps through a unifying theme or metaphor
Conclusion:  signal end of speech, summarize main points, decisive and memorable close.

Typed outline due in class (or by email) MONDAY April 14 (even if you are presenting on the 16th).