The Advanced Speech final exam consists of two parts,
a speaking task and a written task, which will combine
to count as 20% of your semester grade.
Speaking Task (100 points) - delivered on Wednesday, December 17th.
You get a 2nd Chance!
This semester you have delivered a variety of speeches.
After delivering each speech, you watched your presentation and assessed your performance. While completing your self-assessment, did you ever find yourself thinking, "If only I could deliver that speech again . . ."
Now is your chance!
As the speaking task for your Advanced Speech final, you are to deliver for a second time one of the speeches you have delivered this semester. Your goal is to focus on strengthening the content and/or delivery of the speech by taking into account the scoring rubric, peer critiques, and your self-assessment. Watch your speech again to see what you need to work on this 2nd time.
Submit your speech choice to the Haiku dropbox by Monday, December 15th so that the proper rubric will be available for your speech on Wednesday. You are only telling me which speech you plan to re-delivery, not submitting the text of your speech.
This semester you have delivered a variety of speeches.
- Book Talk
- Declamation Speech
- Demonstration Speech
- Informative Speech
- Oral Interpretation
After delivering each speech, you watched your presentation and assessed your performance. While completing your self-assessment, did you ever find yourself thinking, "If only I could deliver that speech again . . ."
Now is your chance!
As the speaking task for your Advanced Speech final, you are to deliver for a second time one of the speeches you have delivered this semester. Your goal is to focus on strengthening the content and/or delivery of the speech by taking into account the scoring rubric, peer critiques, and your self-assessment. Watch your speech again to see what you need to work on this 2nd time.
Submit your speech choice to the Haiku dropbox by Monday, December 15th so that the proper rubric will be available for your speech on Wednesday. You are only telling me which speech you plan to re-delivery, not submitting the text of your speech.
Scoring Rubrics
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Writing Task (100 points) - submitted to Haiku by 11:59 PM on Wednesday, December 17th
You have now completed presenting all of your speeches in Advanced Speech. It is time to reflect on and evaluate your overall performance to gain greater insight into yourself as a speaker. As the writing task for your Advanced Speech final, write a 500-1000 word (2-4 page) essay incorporating answers to the following questions listed below. Use specific examples from your speeches to illustrate your answers. The essay must follow MLA format and will be evaluated for content and form
Generally, each category of questions should be a paragraph; however, you may find that you wish to have more than one paragraph to answer a category.
Generally, each category of questions should be a paragraph; however, you may find that you wish to have more than one paragraph to answer a category.
- (Introduction) What were your expectations coming into a public speaking course? Were you looking forward to watching yourself on video, or were you dreading it? Did you watch your video after each speech or at the end of all of your speeches (or both)? Did you think that watching your videos would improve your speaking skills or make you more self-conscious? What did you expect to see and hear? Was the experience what you expected? Why do you say this?
- Compare and contrast your recollections from the times you gave your presentations to the time(s) you saw the videos. Were your impressions at the time of the speeches accurate? Do you feel you did better or worse now that time has passed? Did your performances improve? Did you appear to get more confident with each speech? Did you really get more confident? Use specific speeches as examples to support your statements.
- What did you notice in viewing the videos that surprises you? What didn’t surprise you? Which among your presentations is your strongest performance? Your weakest? Why are they your strongest and weakest performances? Explain why you categorize them as such.
- Which specific elements of content (attention getter, clear thesis statement, organization and development of main ideas, conclusion, etc.) show the greatest improvement over the course of the speeches? Give specific examples. Which specific elements of delivery (eye contact, gestures, speaking rate, vocal variety, etc.), show the greatest improvement? Give specific examples. Are there specific areas (content or delivery) which showed no improvement?
- Do you feel that the more you prepared, the better you did in your presentation? Did better organization, more facts and examples improve your speech? Did additional practice enhance your performance? How was your performance different from rehearsal to the actual presentation? Did you find that the instructor and your peers’ feedback was similar to how you felt about your performances? Now that it is all over what grade would you give yourself on your performances in this class?
- (Conclusion) What did you learn by watching the videos of your presentations? Did you watch your videos alone or with others? If you watched it with others, with whom did you watch it (family, friends, classmates) and why? If you watched it alone, was this a conscious choice and if so, why? Will you watch these video again? If so, when? If no, why not? Having watched yourself, what will you do differently the next time you speak?
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