Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Active listening skills.
- Criteria to assess the purpose, credibility, and effectiveness of a speaker.
- Strategies to evaluate the tone, organization, and content of spoken language.
- Methods to identify verbal and nonverbal cues of a speaker.
- Fallacious reasoning is illogical and invalid, and distorted evidence is evidence that is not presented accurately.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Listen actively to a speaker to determine the purpose, credibility, and effectiveness of the presentation.
- Listen actively to a speaker to evaluate the tone, organization, and content of spoken language.
- Evaluate a speaker's verbal and non-verbal cues.
- Identify fallacious reasoning or distorted evidence.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Spoken language can be analyzed similarly to the way one analyzes a text and an author.
- Spoken language should be closely analyzed for any instances of illogical reasoning or inaccurate evidence.
Vocabulary
- Active listening
- Purpose
- Credibility
- Effectiveness
- Tone
- Organization
- Content
- Verbal cues
- Non-verbal cues
- Fallacious reasoning
- Distorted evidence
