Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Speakers organize their speech to indicate the point of view and purpose of the presentation.
- Listeners can assess a speaker's rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices to determine the point of view and purpose of the presentation.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify and describe a speaker's rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices.
- Evaluate a speaker's rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices to determine the point of view and purpose of the presentation.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Speakers make rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices that affect the overall effectiveness of their presentations.
- Active listening is critical to evaluating the rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices of a speaker's presentation.
- The language of a speech is affected by a speaker's purpose and point of view, which then affects rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices.
Vocabulary
- Rhetorical choices
- Aesthetic choices
- Organizational choices
- Point of view
- Purpose
